In Effigium Nicholai Culpeper Equitis.  
The shadow of that Body here you find  
Which serves but as a case to hold his mind,  
His Intellectual part be pleased to look  
On 〈◊〉 lines described in the Book.  
〈…〉    

A PHYSICAL DIRECTORY OR A translation of the LONDON DISPENSATORY Made by the College of Physicians in London.  
Being that book by which all Apothicaries are strictly commanded to make all their Physic with many hundred additions which the reader may find in every page marked with this letter A.  
Also there is added the use of all the simples beginning at the first page and ending at the 78 page.  
By Nich. Culpeper Gent.  Persius. Disce, sed ira cadat naso, rugosaque sanna. Cicere. Non nobis solum nati sumus sed etiam patria. 
LONDON,  
Printed for Peter Cole and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-presse near to the Royal Exchange 1649.   

The TRANSLATOR to the READER.  
Courteous Reader,  
IT is a proverb not more vulgar than true, That he that looks on in a game may see as much into it as he that plays. It cannot but be confessed, that this Nation hath been playing a sad game a long time; yet no other than God hath determined by his Divine providence, for all the Nations in Europe to be partakers of. God gave Tyrants in his Wrath, and will take them away in his Displeasure. The Prize which We now, and They within a few years shall play for, is, THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT: This is the part which some think is so sluggishly acted. But I am of opinion will speedily be ended with a joyful Plaudite upon the English Stage. So far as I can see by the help of my 
* Indeed the discerning of these things belongs to the Internal, not the External senses.  Optic Nerves, (whether it be Intromittendo Species, or Extramitendo Radios, it matters not much) the Liberty of our Commonwealth (if I may call it so without a Solecism) is most infringed by three sorts of men, Priests, Physicians, Lawyers; (yet I accuse not all of those Faculties, Trades, or (if I may be so bold without offence) Monopolies, for that were a devilish trade that had never an honest man in it) The one deceives men in matters belonging to their Souls, the other, in matters belonging to 〈◊〉 Bodies, the third in matters belonging to their Estates. Amongst these, Physitianswalk in the Clouds, their ways being not so discernible to a vulgar view as the ways of the other two are; and that's the reason men are led by the noses (worse than beasts, as though oppression had already made them mad) by a company of proud, insulting, domineering Doctors, whose wits were born above five hundred years before themselves. Would it not pity a man to see whole estates wasted in Physic, (all a man hath spent upon Physicians) both body and purse consumed upon outlandish rubbish? Would it not make both a man's ears glow to hear a man affirm, that God hath created no remedy for such a disease nearer than the East-Indies? Is it handsome and wel-beseeming a Commonwealth to see a Doctor ride in State, in Plush with a foot-cloth, and not a grain of Wit but what was in print before he was born? Send for them into a Visited House, they will answer, They dare not come. How many honest poor souls have been so cast away, will be known when the Lord shall come to make Inquisition for Blood. Send for them to a poor man's house, who is not able to give them their Fee, than they will not come, and the poor Creature for whom Christ died must forfeit his life for want of money.  

Est Medicinalis Medicorum regula, talis  
Vt dicant da, da, dum dicit 〈◊〉, ah, ah.   

The Doctor's practice is to ask for Gain,  
Even at the time when men cry out for Pain.   
I am informed that Physicians in Italy may not deny to go to any patient (if at leisure) that sends for them, provided they have their fee, which (if they go alone) is but eighteen pence, and yet by visiting many patients they get as much money if not more than ours do, and by visiting so many patients cannot choose but better their judgements abundantly, besides they carry their Scholars with them, and instruct them by the symptoms what the disease is, in what part of the body it lies, how strong it is etc. for which they have a shilling more, which is but half a crown in all, and out of question viewing the patient is a better way to find the disease than viewing the piss, though a man should view as much as the Thames will hold. I cannot conceive (if the State saw it fitting) that such a course could be prejudicial to our Commonwealth; But some self seekers (of whom I expect to be traduced, for the Translation of this book) will be objecting against me for quoting the virtues of the recepts, of which I meet with one in the Epistle of the College to the Reader, viz. It tends to the destruction of the Commonwealth, because thereby ignorat fellows will be induced to the practice of Physic, and therefore they say they wrote it only to the nurslings of Apollo. But 1. If Apollo had served the nine Muses so as they serve the Apothecaries, viz. hid all his art from them, they would have had no more wit than nine Geese. 2. All the Nation are already Physicians, If you ail any thing, every one you meet, whether man or woman will prescribe you a medicine for it. Now whether this book thus translated will make them more ignorant or more knowing, any one that hath but a grain of understanding more than a horse, may easily judge, 3. All the Ancient Physicians wrote in their own mother tongues, and native language. Mesue Avicenna, Averrois, Rhazis, Serapio etc. in Arabic. Galen, Hypocrates etc. in Greek. 〈◊〉 in High-dutch; Did these do their country's good or harm think ye? What reason can be given why England should be deprived of the benefit of other Nations? Worthy country men the College doth in effect say, that you are the greatest fools under the Sun: Are you not much engaged to them think you? As for Apothecaries they have least reason of all to complain, because it tends to the advancement of their trade, If they have not wit enough to know, that private men cannot make up most of these compositions themselves, but knowing the virtues of the virtues of them, will resort the more to them for physic, they deserve the name of a company of Dunces. I am confident there be those in this Nation that have wit enough to know that the Papists and the College of Physicians will not suffer Divinity and Physic to be printed in our mother tongue, both upon one and the same grounds, and both colour it over with the same excuses.  
For my own part I am now in the prime of my age, therefore not affected with the lightness and vanity of youth, nor the dotage of old age, I call the Heavens to witness and all the powers therein, that I aim not at any private interest in doing this Work, but purely the good of my country, I never received (that I know of) the least prejudice by any of the College which might procure desire of revenge in a melancholy breast. And last of all, not the least of all my respects kind Gentlewomen to you (who freely bestow your pains brains and cost, to your poor wounded and diseased neighbours) mnst not be for gotten, I humbly salute you with many thanks, and present these the beginnings of my labours at your feet, far be it from me to boast of them, praise them as you find them, and rest assured of me, that during life I shall never cease to employ that talant God hath given me, to my country's good: I cannot boast as the College did, that no errors are committed by the Printer or myself, If it be childish 'tis the liker to my Copy. I hope the ingenious will favourably pass by my failings. Charity usually dwelleth in generous breasts, if this be kindly accepted it shall be an engagement to me further to open this famous (though too much abused) art of Physic to you, and withal always to remain  
Your Servant NICH. CULPEPER.   


THE NAMES OF THE DOCTORS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICIANS LONDON, The Authors of this WORK.  
HENRY ATKINS, Doctor of Physic, the King's Physician in Ordinary, and Precedent of the College of Physicians.  
THEODORE DE MAYERNE, Doctor of Physic, and chief Physician to both their Majesties.  


7. of the 8. chosen.  


the King's Physicians in Ordinary.  
JOHN CRAIG.  
WILL. PADDY Gent.    
THOMAS FREAR.  
THOMAS MOUNDEFORD.  
MARK RIDLEY.  
EDWARD LISTER.  
RICHARD PALMER.    
JOHN CRAIG the younger, Chief Physician to Prince Charles.  
JOHN ARGENT.  
EDWARD JORDAN.  
JOHN GIFFORD.  
FRANCIS HERRING.  
MATTHEW GWINN, the King's Physician to the Tower.  
MATTHEW LISTER.  
WILLIAM HARVEY, the Kings sworn Physician.  
WILLIAM CLEMENT.  
SIMEON FOX.  
LEONARD POE, the King's Physician to His Household.  
ROBERT FLUDD.  
RICHARD ANDREW'S.  
THOMAS PATTISON.  
THEODORE GOULSTON.  
JOHN COLLINS.  
SIMON BASKERVILE.  
THOMAS WINESTONE.  
EDMUND WILSON.  
GEORGE ROGERS.  
JOHN RAVEN, the Queen's sworn Physician.  
PAUL DE LAUNE.  
ELEAZAR HODSON.  
OTTUEL MEVEREL.  
ALEXANDER RAMSEY.    

The COLLEGE to the Candid READER.  
PHYSIC which gives thee health wisheth good health to thee. And that it may the better provide for thy health, it bath built up this new Apothecary's shop, which it hath not only stored with a rich Magazine of wholesome medicines, but hath also taken so much care for thy safety, that they should be compounded faithfully without deceit, safely without error: But thou wilt say, What need is there of this, seeing there is scarce a foreign City or University of any fame, but have abundantly performed this, both ancient and modern. Perhaps it is true: But if so many Ancients as Mesue, Myrepsus, Alexandrinus and others rested not satisfied in this, but every one of them would have his own Dispensatory, the Romans theirs, the Venetians theirs, the Florentine theirs, the Bergomenses theirs, the Augustan theirs, and others which we pass by in 〈◊〉. Why should not the Londoners have theirs? as their own proper garment, the praise of which consists not in that it is Gorgeous, but in that it is their Own; not in that it is made of Purple or Pall, but in that it is 
* some wise men question that extremely.  fitted to English bodies. Besides, it happens that we are rather distracted than furnished with such varieties, this plenty hath set us to seek, and that disease we meet withal here ariseth altogether of fullness. The vaster the wood is and the more paths is hath, the sooner may the passenger lose his way. The more spacious the Sea is, the more need of a Pilot. And this our Apothecaries having been a long time destitute of, are tossed up and down with divers waves, and suffer a thousand distractions, one in making up his Medicines running in one path another in another; one follows Cordus, another Fernelius, a third the Augustane Physicians, and a fourth his own Fancy, so that a medicine comes to have so many several Ideas as there are shops, which mischief that it may not turn Epidemical, to the great hazard both of Physicians and sick people, We intent by this work, like as by an anchor cast, to settle the floating course of compounding medicines, and to restrain it within its proper bounds and Channels, whilst we do not only teach one and the same rule and method of compounding, but also impose and command it, from which men ought not to err a hairs breadth (as they say) that so both Physicians and Apothecaries being guided by one and the same thread, they may unanimusly proceed these in prescribing, those in compounding medicines.  
There is another grievous plague also which calls aloud for a Dispensatory, to wit, The deceit and impostures of men, who to get a little gain, sell filthy dregs instead of good drugs, nay even those which are of most value, Treacle, Mitbridate, and Alkermes, are adulterated, so that they are no longer Antidotes but Poisons, not a help but a destruction to the sick, such abominable man-slayers though they deserve the whip or gallows rather than our Censure, yet all may happily be salved (for English men) by benefit of this Book and poor sick people's health provided for, The happy and salubrious Counsel, the glory and praise of which we do not ascribe to ourselves, but (that we may confess the very truth) its original came higher, and its rise was more divine, the beginning came from Jupiter, we mean from our most sovereign, and (which is more rare) most learned, and (which is more grateful) most vigilant for the public safety, KING JAMES; who as he hath always studied and happily settled, peace in the Christian Orb, unity in the Briton Orb, conformity in the Eclesiastical Orb, So he hath vouchsased to illustrate our Apollinary Orb and physical Sphere with his light, and to appoint wholesome laws to us, for a physical concord and certain harmony of making medicines, so that as before he had respect to the salvation of souls, so here to the health of bodies; before to the dignity of the subject, here to their life and health, so that it may be truly spoken of him which the divine Prophet spoke of the Sun, Nothing is hid from his heat, nothing secluded from his care, and the same motto seems to be engraven by a divine hand upon his breast which is upon his coin, the safety of the people is the supreme Law. For when he had granted new Liberties, new Privileges to the Apothecaries of London, by his Letters patents, he inculcales upon this above all, that when this Dispensatory comes out to public view, they should religiously bind themselves to that as to a sacred rule, and should obey the decrees of the College of Physicians, to which royal mandate it was but equal for us to obey, and at length we brought the matter so about to it this London Dispensatory is brought forth to public 〈◊〉, in a 〈◊〉 neither slovenly nor proud, neither wanting nor redundant, in which although we reverence the learned grey hairs of the ancient, and have placed their recepts as it were in the front, yet we neither reject nor 〈◊〉 the supplies of modern assusions, but we have left them a place and corner in the rear that so they may serve as auxiltaries to the moddel of Physic, Neither have we superfiously tied ourselves to the sleps of the Ancient so, as that we bring nothing new of our own, for all here described is not transcribed, we have not furnished our Apothecary's shop altogether, with foreign wares, but we have added some new ones and of our own, which we bring forth into the public, as approved by frequent use, some we have changed in the ancient forms, both the sense and name of the Author being preserved, not moved thereto so much through desire of novelty as compelled thereto by necessity, especially where such simples as are prescribed cannot easily be had, in the place of which we prescribe others, like unto them in virtue. The like we have done in the composition of pills, which if they were made into a mass after the ancient manner with juices or waters, they would soon be too dry, therefore we have appointed it to be done with syrups, also whereas in most Authors, some things are totally left to the judgement of the Artificer, especially in the quantity of Honey and Sugar, under these two letters, q. s. or words, [so much as is suffient] whence it comes to pass that the same medicine hath neither the same consistence nor the same virtue, we have for the future 
* in a hopsack  taken away this power from the Artificer, and for this cause have taken some of the most skilful Apothecaries into counsel with us, by whose help and pains we have agreed upon a certain manner of composition, and have designed a certain quantity and dose, which they may not add to nor take from. And lastly seeing in most Dispensatories both ancient and modern, the use and virtue of every medicine is described whence ignorant fellows and Mountebanks may arm themselves for the practice of physic, and so put a sword into a madmans' hand for the destruction of the Commonwealth, we have added nothing at all of the virtues, for we write this to the learned only, and to the 〈◊〉 rsiings of Apollo, for the health, not the understanding of the vulgar, we need not give a reason why we dispose of it in this order, we have placed the simple before the compound, the internal before the external, the liquid before the solid. We have digested them all into several Classes, that so they may be brought into use and practice with little search. Thus (Courteous Reader) thou hast both what we have done and why we have done it so, It is a work to which all the College have brought their Talents as all the gods did to Pandora in the play, But under the auspicy of a most worthy Precedent, by whom not only as Precedent but by whose counsel help and indefatigable study, this building was finished, which as it is (friendly Reader) we vow it to thine and the public good, and hope it will be commodious for thee, and if it please thy palate, use it and fare well.  
From the College of London Decemb. Anno. 1618.   

A brief of his MAJESTY'S Royal Proclamation Commanding all Apothecaries of this Realm to follow this PHARMACOPOEIA lately compiled by the College of Physicians of LONDON  
WHere is by Our especial Commandment the e hath been of late compiled in the Latin tongue by the College of Physicians of London a Book entitled Pharmac●poeia Londinensis, etc. And whereas through the great care and industry of the said College, the foresaid Pharmacopoeia Londin, is now perfected, and is a work greatly tending t the public good of our subjects, and we minding that all falsehood, differences, varieties, or incertainties in making or composing of Medicines, and distilling of Oils, or Waters, bereafter be utterly taken away and abolished: and that in the time to come the manner and form prescrited in the said book should be generally and solely practised by Apothecaries in their compositions of Medicines, and distillation of Waters for all such things as are therein named and prescribed: we therefore desirous in all things to provide for the common good of our subjects, and intending to settle and establish the general use of the said Book in this 〈◊〉 of ENGLAND, do hereby signify and declare our Royal Will and pleasure to be, and hereby straightly require, charge, and command all and singular Apothecaries, within this our Realm of England or the dominions thereof, that they and every of them, immediately after the said Pharmacop. Londin. shall be printed and published, do not compound, or make any Medicine or medicinable receipt, or prescription; or distil any Oil, or Waters, or other Extractions that are or shall be in the said Pharmacop, Londin. mentioned and named after the ways or means prescribed or directed, by any other Books or Dispensatories whatsoever, but after the only manner and form that hereby is, or shall be directed, prescribed, and set down by the said book, and according to the weights and measures that are or shall be therein limited, and not otherwise, etc. upon pain of Our high displeasure, and to incur such penalties and punishment as may he inflicted upon offenders herein for their contempt or neglect of this our Royal commandment. Willing and commanding also hereby all Majors, Sheriffs, justices of peace, Constables, etc. to be aiding and assisting. Given at Our Palace of White-Hall 26. of April in the 16. year of Our Reign of England France, and Ireland, and of Scotland 51. 1618.   


WEIGHTS.  
TWenty grains do make a scruple, three scruples, a drachm commonly called a dram. Eight drachms, an ounce. Twelve ounces a pound   

MEASURES.  
AS for the Colleges measures I know not well what English names to give them. Cochlearium holds in syrups half an ounce, in distilled waters three drachms. Cyaibus, holds an ounce and an half. Hemina (which also they call Cotyla) contains nine ounces. Libra holds twelve ounces. A Sextary contains eighteen ounces. A Congee six Sextaries  
These measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities, for their Cyathus contained an onnce and an half, a drachm and a scruple, Their Sextary, contained but 14. ounces 3. quarters and half a quarter, and amongst the Grecians not so much, it is called a Sextary because it is the six part of a Congee. Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether 7. ounces and an half, Their Libra I suppose to that which Galen calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, viz. a vessel to measure with, it was made with clear horn and by certain lines drawn round it like rings, was divided into twelve equal parts, each part containing an ounce.  
Besides these, the College have gotten another foolish and incertain way of measuration not here set down, viz. by handfuls and pugils, what ahandful is, is known to all, but how much it is, is known to none, but is as different as men's hands are in bigness or their fingers in length. A pugil is properly so much as you can take up with your thumb and two fingers, and is very incertain, not only in respect of the length of the finger, but also in respect of the matter you take up, for your mother's wit will tell you, you may take up more hay in that manner than bran.    

DIRECTIONS  ALthough I did what I could throughout the Book to express myself, in such a language as might be understood by all, and therefore avoided terms of are so much as might be, yet it could not sometimes be avoided but some words were quoted which stand in need of some explaining, such of which as are obvious to my eye are— 
1. Balneum Mariae, is a double vessel, the one of which holds water, the other holds the matter to be distilled, conveniently placed in the water, that which contains the matter to be distilled is made of glass, which ought to be put in whilst the water is cold, neither to be taken out whilst the water is hot, for fear of breaking, in this manner are all gross bodies distilled.  
2. Manica Hippocratis, Hypocrates his sleeve is a strainer made of woollen cloth, sewed together in the form of a Sugar-loaf.  
3. Calcination is the burning of a thing in a Crucible or other such convenient vessel that will endure the fire.  
4. Filtation is straining a thing through a brown paper, viz. make up the paper in form of a funnel, which having placed in a funnel let the liquor pass through it.  
5. Coagulation is curdling or hardening, it is used here for reducing a liquid body to hardness by boiling.  
6. Whereas vital, natural, and animal Spirits are often mentioned in the virtues, I shall here explain the meaning of them.  
The actions of the animal virtue are, 1. sensitive, 2. motive, the sensitive is, 1. external, 2. internal, External are seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling. The Internal senses are, Imagination, Judgement, Memory, this proceeds from the brain.  
The vital spirit proceeds from the heart, and causeth in man, Mirth, Joy, Hope, Trust, Humanity, Mildness, Courage, as also their opposites, Care, Fear, Sadness, Sorrow, Despair, Envy Hatred, Stuborness, Revenge etc.  
The natural virtue altereth, Nourishment into Chyle, Chyle into Blood, Blood into Flesh, it also Formeth, Engendereth, Nourisheth, and increaseth the body.  
7. Infusion, is steeping a gross substance in one more liquid.  
8. Decoction, is the liquor in which any thing is boiled.   

A CATALOGVE OF THE SIMPLES CONDUCING TO THE DISPENSATORY.  

The PREFACE.  
BEfore I begin the Catalogue I thought good to premise a few words to the Reader:  
1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another, viz. Herbs for Roots, or either of them for Flowers: If he cast but his eye up to the top of the Page, he shall there see which it is.  
2. Let a due time be observed (cases of necessity excepted) in gathering all Simples; for which take these few Rules: All Roots are of most virtue when the sap is down in them, viz. toward the latter end of summer, or beginning of the spring, for happily in winter many of them cannot be found; you may hang up many of them a drying, by drawing a string through them and so keep them a whole year.  
Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of juice, before they run up to seed; and if you gather them in a hot sunshine day, they will not be so subject to putrify; the best way to dry them, is in the sun, according to Dr. REASON, though not according to Dr. TRADITION: Such Herbs as remain green all the year, or are very full of juice, it were a folly to dry at all, but gather them only for present ufe, as Houseleek, Scurvygrasse, etc.  
Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime, in a sunshine day, and dried in the sun. Let the seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered.  
3. Let them be kept in a dry place, for any moisture, though it be but a moist air, corrupts them, which if perceived in time, the beams of the sun will refresh them again.  
4. Take notice, that only the Latin names, were quoted by the College and are to be seen at the beginniug of each Simple in a different letter, the English name together with the Temperature and Virtues were added by the Translator, he hopes for the public good.  
5. All the Latin names to one Herb are not set down, that would have done no other good in the world than took up more paper, and by consequence made the Book the dearer.   

ROOTS.  
ACanthi, Brancae ursinae. Of Bear's breech, or branck-ursine; it is meanly hot and dry, it helps ache and numnesle of the joints, and is of a binding quality, good for wounds and broken bones. Dioscorides saith, they are profittable for Ruptures, or such as are bursten, or burnt with fire.  
Acori, Veri, Peregrini, Vulgaris. etc. See Calamus, Aromalicus. I shall not, nor dare not make a long paraphrase about the sorts of it, one of which is the waterflag, or flower de luce, which is hot and dry in the second degree, binds, strengthens, stops fluxes of the belly, and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women.  
Allium. Garlic. It is hot and dry in the fourth degree, breeds naughty and corrupt blood, yet is an enemy to all poisons, and such as are bitten by 
(a) viz. Adders, Toads, Spiders, etc.  cold venomous beasts, it provokes urine, and expels wind.  
Alcanuae. Of privet. See the leaves.  
Althaeae Of marshmallows, are meanly hot, of a digesting softening nature, ease pains, help bloody-fluxes, the stone & gravel.  
Angelicae. Of Angelica, is hot and dry in the third degree, strengthens the heart exceedingly, and is a singular remedy against pestilence and poison.  
Anchusae. Of Alkanet, cold and dry, binding, good for old ulcers.  
Anthorae. An outlandish root, the counterpoison for Monks-hood, it is an admirable remedy for the wind-colic, and 〈◊〉 poison. They that would know more of it, let them read Guainerius, and Solerius, both which lived near the places where it plentifully grew.  
Apii. Of smallage, see the Barks.  
Aristolochiae. Of Birthwort: of which are three sorts, long, round, and climbing. All hot and dry in the third degree.  
The long, being drunk in wine, brings away both birth 
Dioscorides.  and afterbirth, and whatsoever a careless Midwife hath left 
Galen.  behind.  
The round, being drunk with wine, helps (besides the former) stuff of the lungs, hardness of the spleen, ruptures, convulsions; both of them resist poison.  
I never read any use of the climbing Birthwort.  
Artanitae, Cyclaminis etc. of Showbread: hot and dry in the third degree, a most violent purge, dangerous; outwardly applied to the place it profits much in the bitings of venomous beasts, also being hung about women in labour, it causeth speedy deliverance. See the herb.  
Arundinis, Vallatoriae, & Sacchatinae. Of common Reeds and sugar Reeds, the roots of common reeds, draw out thorns, ease sprains, the ashes of them mixed with vinegar: Take scurf or dandrif off from the head, and prevent the falling off of the hair, they are hot and dry in the second degree according to Galen.  
I never read any virtue of the root of Sugar Cane.  
Ariosto etc. of Cuckow-pints, or Wake-Robin, 
(o) I would not have the Reader build to much confidence upon the degrees of temperature (or more properly intemperature neither of this, or any other simple, because most of them are quoted by OutlandishAuthors; and out of question the difference of the climate may something alter their temperature in degree. Dioscorides. AEtius. Galen.  hot and dry in the third degree. I know no great good they do inwardly taken, unless to play the rogue withal, or make sport: outwardly applied, they take off Scurf, Morphew, and Freckles from the face, and clear the skin, and cease the pains of the Gout. See Gersa serpentaria.  
Asclepiadis, vincetoxici. Of Swallow wort, hot and dry, good against poison, and gripe of the belly, as also against the bitings of mad-dogs.  
Asari. Of Asara bacca, the roots are a safer purge than the leaves and not so violent, they purge by vomit, stool, and urine, they are profitable for such as have agues, dropsies, stops of the liver, or spleen, green sickness.  
Asparagi. Of Asparagus, or Sperage: they are temperate in quality, opening, they provoke urine, and cleanse the reins and bladder.  
Asphodeli, hastae Regiae, foem. Of King's spear or foemal Asphodel. I know no physical use of the roots, probably there is: for I do not believe God created any thing of no use.  
Asphodeli, Albuci, maris, of male Asphodel. Hot and dry in the second degree. Inwardly taken, they provoke vomit, urine, and the terms in women; outwardly used in ointments, they cause hair to grow, cleanse ulcers, take away morphew and freckles from the face.  
Bardanae etc. Of Bur, Clot-bur, or Bur-dock, temperately 
Dioscorides. Apuleius.  hot and dry. Helps such as spit blood and matter, bruised and mixed with salt and applied to the place, helps the bitings of mad dogs. It expels wind, easeth pains of the teeth, strengthens the back, helps the running of the reins and the whites in women.  
Behen. alb. Rub. Of Valerian, white and red. Mesue, Serapio and other Arabians say they are hot and moist, in the latter end of the first or beginning of the second degree, and comfort the heart, stir up lust. The Grecians held them to be dry in the second degree, that they stop fluxes and provoke urine.  
Bellidis. Of Daisies, see the leaves.  
Betae, nigrae, albae, rubrae. Of Beets, black, white, and red, as for black Beets I have nothing to say, I doubt they are as rare as black Swans. The red Beet root boiled and preserved in vinegar makes a fine cool, pleasing, cleansing, digesting sauce. See the leaves.  
Bistortae etc. Of Bistort, or snakeweed, cold and dry in the third degree, binding, resists pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting, and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and sornes of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth.  
Borraginis. Of borage, hot and moist in the first degree, 
Dioscorides.  cheers the heart, and helps drooping spirits.  
Brioniae etc. Of Briony both white and black, they are both hot and day, some say in the third degree, and some say, but in the first, they purge phlegm and watery humours, but they trouble the stomach much, they are special good for dropsies, the white is most in use, and is admirable good for the fits of the mother, both of them externally used, take away freckles, sun-burning and morphew from the face, and cleanse filthy ulcers.  
Buglossi. Of Bugloss, its virtues are the same with borage, and the roots of either seldom used.  
Bulbus vomitorius. a vomiting root. I never read of it else where by this general name.  
Calami Aromatici. Of Aromatical reed, or sweet garden flag, It provokes urine, strengthens the lungs, helps bruises, refists poison etc. In beating of it be very speedy, for the strength will quickly fly out.  
Capparum. Of Caper roots, are hot and dry in the second degree, cutting and cleansing, they provoke the terms, help malignant ulcers, ease the toothache, assuage swellings, and help the rickets.  
Caryophillatae etc. Of Avens, or herb Bennet, The roots are dry, and something hot, of a cleansing quality, they keep garments from being motheaten. See the leaves.  
Caulium, Of Coleworts. I know nothing the roots are good for, but only to bear the herbs and flowers.  
Centaurij major is, Of Centaury the greater, the roots help such as are bursten, such as spit blood, shrinking of sinews, shortness of wind, coughs, convulsions, cramps.  
Cepae, Of Onions, are hot and dry (according to Galen) in the fourth degree, they cause dryness, and are extremely hurtful for choleric people, they breed but little nourishment, and that little is naught, they are bad meat, yet good physic for phlegmatic people, they are opening, and provoke urine, and the terms, if could be the cause obstructing, bruised and outwardly applied they cure the bitings of mad dogs, roasted and applied they help boils, and Aposthumes, raw they take the fire out of burnings, but ordinarily eaten they cause headache, spoil the sight, dull the senses, and fill the body full of wind.  
Chameleontis Albi, nigri etc. Of Chameleon white and black. Tragus calleth the Carline Thistle by the name of white Chameleon, the root whereof is hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, it provokes sweat, kills worms, resists pestilence and poison, it is given with success in pestilential fevers, helps the tooth ache by being chewed in the mouth, opens the stops of the liver and spleen, it provokes urine, and brings down the terms. As for the black Chameleon, All Physicians hold it to have a kind of venomous quality, and unfit to be used inwardly, Both Galen, Clusius, Nicander, Dioscorides, and AEgineta. Outwardly in ointments it is profitable for scabs, morphew, tetters etc. and all things that need cleansing.  
Chelidonij, majoris, minoris. Of Celondine the greater and lesser, The greater is that which we usually call Celondine, the root is manifestly hot and dry, cleansing and scouring, proper for such as have the yellow Jaundice, it opens obstructions of the liver, and if chewed in the mouth it helps the toothache.  
Celondine the lesser is that which usually we call Pilewott, which though Galen, and Dioscorides teach to be hot in the fourth degree, and might happily be so in those countries where they lived, yet with us it scarce exceeds the first degree, the Juice of the root mixed with honey and snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, helps the Hemorrhoyds or Piles being bathed with it, as also doth the root only carried about one, being made into an ointment helps the 
* 〈◊〉  disease in the neck commonly called the Kings Evil.  
China, wonderfully extenuateth and drieth, provoketh sweat, resisteth putrefaction, it strengthens the liver, helps the dropsy and malignant ulcers, leprosy, itch, and the French-pox, and is profitable in diseases coming of fasting.  
Cichorij. Of Succory, cools and dries in the second degree strengthens the liver and veins, it opens obstructions, stops of the liver and spleen.  
Colchici. Of medow-saffron, the roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach, therefore I let them alone.  
Consolidae, majoris, minoris, Consolida major, is that which we ordinarily call Comfry, it is of a cold quality, yet pretty temperate, of such a gluttonous quality that according to Discorides they will join meat together that is cut in sunder, if they be boiled with it, it is excellent for all wounds both nternal and external, for spitting of blood, ruptures or iburstness, pains in the back, it strengthens the reins, it stops the terms, and helpeth the hemorrhoyds.  
Consolida minor is that we call, selfheal, and the Lattins Prunella. See the herb.  
Costi utriusque. Of Costus both sorts, being roots coming from beyond sea, hot and dry, break wind, being boiled in oil it is held to help the gout by anointing the grieved place with it.  
cucumber is a gresiis. Of wild cucumber roots, or cowcumber as the vulgar call them, they purge phlegm and that with such violence, that I would advise the country man that knows not how to correct them to let them alone.  
Cinarae etc. Of Artichokes, the root purgeth by urine whereby the rank savour of the body is much amended.  
Cynoglossae etc. Of Houndstongue, cold and dry, being roasted and laid to the fundament helps the Hemorrhoyds, is also good against burnings and scaldings.  
Curcumae. Of Turmerick, hot in the third degrree, opens obstructions, is profitable against the yellow jaundice, and cold distempers of the liver and spleen.  
Cyperiutriusque, longi, rotundi. Of Cyperus grass or English Galanga, both sorts, long and round, is of a warming nature provokes urine, breaks the stone, provokes the terms, the ashes of them (being burnt) is used for Ulcers in the mouth, Cankers etc.  
Dauci. Of Carrots, are moderately hot and moist, breed but little nourishment and is extreme windy, I omit what virtues Galen writes of them, as being confident there was such a difference between them that our Carrots will never answer those effects.  
Dentariae majoris etc. Of Toothwort, toothed violets, or Coralwort, they are drying, binding, and strengthening, are good to ease pains in the sides and bowels, also being boiled the decoction is said to be good to wash green wounds and ulcers with.  
Dictamni. Of Dittany, is hot and dry in the third degree, hastens travail in women, provokes the terms. See the leaves. 
Mathiolus.   
Doronici. Of Doronicum, a supposed kind of wolf-bane, I 
Dioscorides.  am of opinion that Serapio and Avicenna and other Arabian Physicians did not intend that root we now use for Doronicum when they wrote so much against it, I shall adhear to the judgement of Gesner, which is verified by daily experience, It is hot and dry in the third degree, strengthens the heart, is a sovereign cordial, and preservative against the pestilence; It helps the vertigo or swimming of the head, is admirable against the bitings of venomous beasts, and such as have taken to much opium, as also for Lethargies, the juice helps hot rhewns in the eyes.  
Dracontij, Dracunculi. Divers Authors attribute divers herbs to this name, it is most probable to me, that they mean Dragons, the roots of which cleanse mightily, and take away proud or dead flesh, the very smell of them is hurtful for women with child, outwardly in ointments they take away scurf, morphew and sunburning, I would not wish any unless very well read in Physic to take them inwardly.  
Ebuli. Of Dwarf Elder, Walwort, or Danewort, hot and dry in the third degree, the roots are as gallant a purge for the dropsy as any is under the Sun, which besides the Authority of the Ancient, was often proved by the never dying Dr. Butler of Cambridge, as myself have it in a manuscript of his.  
Echij. Of Viper's Bugloss, or Wild Bugloss: I warrant you if Authors had not differed about this herb, the College would have set down five or six names to have explained their meaning, as they usually do where they need not, I have set down the most usual name, and always quote the virtues to what I set down: They say the root of this being carried in one's hand, no venomous beast will bite him, (and so they say of Dragons which I forgot before) so that you may walk without danger amongst adders, vipers, and serpents, (but I believe you had best have a care you do not tread upon them) this root is cold and dry, good for such as are bitten by venomous beasts, either being boiled in wine and drunk, or bruised and applied to the place, being also boiled in wine and drunk, it increaseth milk in nurses.  
Ellebori, Veratri, albi. nigri. Of Hellebore white and black. The root of white Hellebore, or Sneezwort, being grated and snuffed up the nose, causeth Sneezing, kills Rats, and Mice being mixed with their meat: it is but a scurvy, churlish medicine being taken inwardly, and therefore better let alone than used; and yet Dr. Bright commends it for such as are mad through Melancholy.  
Black Hellebore, Bears-foot, or Christmas-flower; both this and the former are hot and dry in the third degree. This is nothing so violent nor dangerous as the former: Both Gal. len and Julius Alexandrinus report the roots of this boiled in vinegar to be an admirable remedy against inveterate Scabs, Itch and leprosy, the same helps the Tooth- 〈◊〉 held in the mouth, and dropped into the ears helps deafness coming of Melancholy, and noise in the ears, 
a You must boil them but very little, for the strength will soon fly away in vapour.  corrected with a little Cinnamon (in powder) it purgeth Melancholy, resisteth Madness. Also Pliny, Absyrtus, and Columella, affirm that a piece of the root put into a hole made in the ear of a beast troubled with the Cough, or that hath taken any poison, and drawn quite through next day about that time, helpeth them: out of question it is a special thing to rowel cattle withal.  
Enulae Campanae, Helenij. Of Elecampane, is hot and dry in the third degree, wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust: in ointments, it is good against scabs and itch.  
Endiviae etc. Of Endive, Garden Endive which is the 〈◊〉 here specified, is held to be somewhat colder, though not so dry and cleansing as that which is wild, it cools hot stomaches hot livers, amends the blood corrupted by heat, and therefore must needs be good in fevers; it cools the reins, and therefore prevents the stone, it opens obstructions and provokes urine  
Eringij. Of Eringo, or Sea holly, the roots are moderately hot, something drying and cleansing, bruised and applied to the place they help the Scrophula, or disease in the throat called the King's Evil, they break the stone, increase seed, stir up lust, provoke the terms etc.  
Esulae, majoris, minoris. Of Spurge the greater and lesser, they are both (taken inwardly) too violent for a vulgar use, outwardly in ointments they cleanse the skin, and take away sunburning.  
Filicis etc. Fearn, of which are two grand distinctions, viz male and female, I suppose they intent the male here, because they adjoin some other names to it, which the Greeks attributed only to the male, the female is that which we call Brakes, both of them are hot and dry, and excellent good for the Rickets in children, and diseases of the spleen, but dangerous for women with child.  
Filipendulae. Of Dropwort, the roots are hot and dry, in the third degree, opening, cleansing, yet somewhat binding, they provoke urine, ease pains in the bladder, and are a good preservative against the falling sickness.  
Foeniculi. Of Fennel, the root is hot and dry, some say in the third degree, opening, it provokes urine, and the terms, stregthens the Liver, and is good against the Dropsy.  
Fraxini. Of Ash-tree, I know no great virtues in Physic of the roots.  
Galangae, majoris, minoris. Galanga commonly called Galingal, the greater and lesser, they are hot and dry in the third 
Mathiolus.  degree, and the lesser are accounted the hotter, it strengthens the stomach exceedingly, and takes away the pains thereof coming of cold or wind, the smell of it strengthens the brain, it relieves faint hearts, takes away windiness of the womb, heats the reins, and provokes lust.  
Gentianae. Of Gentian, called so from 
* Gentius a Prince.  his name that first found it out, some call it Felwort, and Baldmoney. It is hot, cleansing, and scouring, a notable Counterpoison, it opens obstructions, helps the bitings of venomous beasts, and mad dogs, helps digestion, and cleanseth the body of raw humours, our Chyrurgians use the root in form of a tent, to open the sore they are also very profitable for ruptures or such as are burst.  
Glycyrrhizae. Of Liquoris, the best that is grows in England, it is hot and moist in temperature, helps the roughness of the windpipe, Hoarceness, diseases in the Kidneys and bladder, and ulcers in the bladder, (which in my opinion is a very difficult thing to cure, although curable) it concocts raw humours in the stomach, helps difficulty of breathing is profitable for all salt humours, the root dried and beaten into powder and the powder put into the eye, is a special remedy for a pin and a web.  
Graminis. Of Grass such as in London they call Coutchgrasse, and Squitch-grasse, in Sussex Dog-grasse. It gallantly provokes urine, and easeth the Kidneys oppressed with gravel, gripe of the belly, and difficulty of urine. bruised 
Galen Discorides  and applied to the place they speedily help green wounds.  
Hermodactyli. Of Hermodactils, they are hot and dry, purge phlegm, especially from the joints, therefore are good for goves, and other diseases in the joints. their vices are corrected with long peppar, Ginger, Cinnamon, or Mastic.  
Hyaointhi. Of Jacinths, the roots are dry in the first degree, and cold in the second, they stop looseness, bind the belly.  
Iridis, vulgaris, et Florentinae etc. Orris, or flowerdeluce (after the French name) both that which grows with us, and and that which comes from Florence. They are hot and dry in the third degree, resist poison, help shortness of breath, provoke the terms, the root being green and bruised takes away blackness and blewness of a stroke being applied to it.  
Imperatoriae &c, Of Masterwort, the root is hot and dry in the third degree, mitigates the rigour of Agues, helps Dropsies, provokes Sweat, break, Carbuncles, and Plague-sores being applied to them, it is very profitable being given inwardly in bruises.  
Isatidis, Glasti. Of Woad, I know no great Physical virtue in the Root, see the herb.  
Labri veneris, Dipsaci. Fullers-Thistle, Teazle. The Root boiled in wine till it be thick (quoth Dioscorides) helps by unction the clefts of the fundament, as also takes away warts and wens. Galen saith they are dry in the second degree, and I take it all Authors hold them to be cold and dry.  
Lactucae. Of Lettuce, I know no Physical virtue residing in the roots.  
Lauri. Of the Bay-tree. The bark of the root drunk with wine, provokes urine, breaks the stone, opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, But according to Dioscorides is naught for women with child. 
Galen.   
Lapathi acuti, Oxylapathi. Sorrel, according to Galen, But Sharp pointed dock, according to Dioscorides, But which the College intends, I know not, The Roots of 〈◊〉 are held to be profitable against the Jaundice, of Sharp-pointed-dock, cleanse, and help Scabs and Itch.  
Levistici. Of Lovage, they are hot and dry and exceeding good for any diseases coming of wind.  
Lillij Albi. Of white Lilies, the root is something hot and dry, helps burnings, softens the womb, provokes the terms, if boiled in wine, is given with good success in Fevers, Pestilences, and all diseases that require suppuration, it (being outwardly applied) helps Ulcers in the head, and amends the ill colour of the face.  
Malvae. Of Mallows, they are cool, and digesting, resist poison, and help Erosions, or Gnawing of the bowels or any other part, as also Ulcers in the bladder.  
Mandragorae. Of Mandrakes, a root dangerous for its coldness, being cold in the fourth degree, the root is scarcy, and dangerous for the vulgar to use, therefore I leave it to those that have skill.  
Mechoachanae etc. Of Mechoacan, It is corrected with Cinnamon, is temperate, yet drying, purgeth phlegm chiefly from the head and joints, it is good for old diseases in the head, and may safely be given even to Feverish bodies, because of its temperature; It is also profitable against Coughs and pains in the Reins, as also against the French-pox.  
Mei etc. Spignel, the roots are hot and dry in the second or third degree, and send up unwholesome vapours to the head, and therefore seeing God hath allotted such plentiful remedy for those maladies, this root conduceth to the cure of; I pass it by with silence.  
Mezerei etc. Of Spurge-Olive, or Widdow-wail. See the Herb, if you think it worth the seeing.  
Mororum Celsi. Of the Mulberry tree, The bark of the root is bitter, hot and dry, opens stops of the liver and spleen, purgeth the belly, and kills worms, boiled in vinegar helps the toothache.  
Morsus Diaboli, Succisae etc. Devilsbit. See the herb.  
Nardi Spicae, Indicae, Celticae. Of spikenard, Indian, and Celtique. Celtic Nard, according to Rondeletius wonderfully provokes urine, They are both hot and dry, but I 〈◊〉 the degree alone, till the learned are agreed about it, the Indian also provokes urine and stops fluxes, helps windiness of the stomach, resisteth the pestilence, helps gnawing pains of the stomach, and dries up rewms that molest the head, the Celtic spikenard, performs the same offices though in a weaker measure.  
Nenupharis, Nymphaeae. Of Water-lillies, they are cold and dry, and stop lust, I never dived so deep to find any other virtue the roots have.  
Ononidis, Arrestae Bovis etc. Of Cammock, or Restharrow, so called because it makes the Oxen stand still when they are ploughing, The roots are hot and dry in the third degree, it breaks the stone, (viz the bark of it) the root itself, according to Pliny, helps the falling-sickness, according to Mathiolus, helps ruptures.  
Ostrutij. Masterwort, given once before under the name of Imperatoria. But I have something else to do than to write one thing twice as they did.  
Pastinacae, Sativae, et silvestris. Garden and wild Parsnips, they are of a temperate quality inclining something to heat, the Garden Parsnips provoke lust, and nourish as much and more too, than any root ordinarily eaten, the Wild are more physical, (and so usually are all wild plants, I could give reasons for it if I durst spend time and paper) being cutting, cleansing, and opening, they resist the bitings of venomous beasts, ease pains and stitches in the sides, and are a sovereign remedy against the Wind colic.  
Pentaphylli. Of cinquefoil, commonly called five-leaved or five-fingered-grass, the root is very drying, but very moderately hot, It is admirable against all fluxes, and stops blood flowing from any part of the body, it helps infirmities of the Liver and Lungs, helps putrified ulcers of the mouth, the root boiled in vinegar is good against the Shingles, and appeaseth the rage of any fretting sores.  
Petasitae, Of Butter-burr, the roots are hot and dry in the second degree, they are exceeding good in violent and pestilential Fevers, they provoke the terms, expel poison, and kill worms.  
Peucedani, foeniculi porcini, Of Sulphurwort, 〈◊〉 fennel, or Horestrange, it is very good applied to the navils of children that stick out, ruptures, held in the mouth it is a present remedy for the fits of the mother, it being taken inwardly gives speedy deliverance to women in travail, and brings away the after birth.  
Poeoniae, maris, foemellae. Of Peony, male and female, they are meanly hot, but more drying, the male is more effectual in operation than the female, the root helps women not sufficiently purged after travail, it provokes the terms, & helps pains in the belly, 〈◊〉 also in the reins and bladder, Falling-sickness, and convulsions in children, being either taken inwardly or hung about their necks.  
Phu, Valerianae, majoris, minoris. Valerian, or Setwal, greater and lesser. They are temperarely hot the greater provokes arine and the terms, helps the strangury, flaies new 〈◊〉 in the 
Dioscorides.  head, and takes away the pricking pains thereof, The lesser resists poison, assuageth the swellings of the cod, coming either through wind or cold, helps cold taken after sweeting or labour, Wind 〈◊〉, outwardly it draws out thorns, 
Mathiolus.  and cures both wounds and ulcers.  
〈◊〉 etc. Of 〈◊〉, It doth this good, to bring forth a gallant physical herb.  
Plantaginis. Of Plantain, the root is something drier than the leaf, but not so cold, it opens stoppages of the liver helps the Jaundice and ulcers of the reins and bladder. 〈◊〉 affiirmeth that one root helps a quotidian ague, three a tertian, and four a quartan, which though our late Writers hold to be fabulous, yet there may be a greater truth in it than they are aware of, yet am I as loath to make superstition a foundation to build on as any of them, let experience be judge, and then we weigh not modern Jury men.  
Polypodij. Of Polypodium, or Fearn of the Oak, It is a gallant though gentle purger of Melancholy, Also in the opinion of Mesue (as famous a Physician as ever I read, for a Gallenist) it dries up superfluous humours, takes away swellings from the hands, feet, knees, and joints, stitches, and pains in the sides, infirmities of the spleen, rickets: correct i 't with a few Annis seeds, or Fennel seeds, or a little Ginger, and then the stomach will not loathe it.  
Poligonatis, sigilli Solomonis etc. Of Solomon's Seal, Let it be no dishonour to Galen nor Dioscorides that English men have found out in late days that these roots may safely be given inwardly, Intruth they may be excused if the difference of the climates they and we lived and now live in be but considered, neither I hope will my country men blame me for following only Dr. Experience in the virtues of this root, stamped and boiled in wine it speedily helps (being drunk I mean for it will not do the deed by looking upon it) all broken bones, it is of an incredible virtue that way, as also being stamped and applied to the place, it soon heals all wounds, and quickly takes away the black and blue marks of blows, being bruised and applied to the place, and for these, I am persuaded there is not a better medicine under the Sun, or as Copernicus and Kepler will have it, above the Sun.  
Porri. Of Leeks, they say they are hot and dry in the fourth degree, they breed but ill favoured nourishment at the best, they spoil the eyes, heat the body, cause troublesome sleep, and are noisome to the stomach, yet are they good for something else, than only to stick in welshmen's hats, for the joyce of them dropped into the ears, takes away the noise of them, mixed with a little vinegar and snuffed up the nose, it stays the bleeding of it, they are 〈◊〉 of the two boiled than raw, but both ways, exceeding hurtful for ulcers in the bladder, and so are Onions and Garlic.  
Prunellorum Silvestrium. Of Sloe-bush, or Slow tree, I think the College set this amongst the roots only for fashion-sake, and I did it because they did.  
Pyrethri Salivaris etc. Pelitory of Spain, it is hot and dry in the fourth degree, chewed in the mouth, it draws away Rewm in the toothache, bruised and boiled in oil, it provoke; sweat by unction, inwardly taken, they say it helps Palsyes and other cold effects of the brain and nerves.  
〈◊〉. Reupontick, or Reubarb of Pontus, it takes away windiness, and weakness of the stomach, 〈◊〉, sobbings, spittings of blood, diseases of the liver and spleen, rickts etc.  
Rhabarbari. Of Reubarb, It gently purgeth choler from the stomach and liver, opens stops, withstands the dropsy, and hypocondriac melancholy, a little boiling takes away the virtue of it, and therefore it is best given by infusion only, it leaves a binding quality behind it, therefore dried a little by the fire and beaten into powder it is usually given in fluxes.  
Rhaphani, Domesticae et sylvesiris. Of Radishes, Garden and Wild. Garden Radishes provoke urine, break the stone, and purge by urine exceedingly, yet breed very bad blood, are offensive to the stomach, and hard of digestion, hot and dry in quality. Wild or Horse Radishes, such as grow in ditches, are hotter and drier than the former, and more effectual in the premises.  
Rhodiae, rad.. Rose root, called (I suppose) by that name because of its sweetness. Stamped and applied to the head it mitigates the pains thereof, being somewhat cool in quality.  
Rhabarbari-Monachorum. Patience, Monks-Reubarb, or Bastardreubarb, it also purgeth, cleanseth the blood, opens obstructions of the liver.  
〈◊〉. Of Maddir, In this were Galen and Dioscorides quite beside the cushion, in saying this root was opening, and cleansing, when clean contrary, it is both drying, and binding, yet not without some opening quality, for it helps the Yellow Jaundice, and therefore opens the obstructions of the liver and gall, it is given with good success to such as have had bruises by falls, stops looseness, the Hemorrhoids, and the Terms in women.  
Rusci. Of Kneeholly, or Butchers-broom, or Bruscus, they are meanly hot and dry, provokes urine, break the stone, and help such as cannot piss freely.  
Sambuci. Of Elder, I know no wonders the root will do.  
Sarsae-Parigliae. Of Sarsa-Parilla, or Bindweed, somewhat hot and dry, helpful against pains in the head, and joints, they provoke sweat, and are used familiarly in drying Diet-drinks.  
Saetyrii utriusque. Of Satyrion, each fort, they are hot and moist in temper, provoke lust, and increase seed, each branch beareth two roots, both spongy, yet the one more solid than the other, which is of most virtue, and indeed only to be used, for some say the most spongy root is quite contrary in operation to the other, as the one increaseth the other decreaseth, yet if in your eye they contend for dignities, put them both in water, and the most solid which is for use will sink, the other swim.  
Saxifragiae albae. Of white Saxifrage, in Sussex we call them Lady-smocks, the roots powerful break the stone, expel wind, provoke urine and cleanse the reins.  
Sanguisorbae. A kind of Burnet.  
Scabiosae. Of Scabious, the roots either boiled or beaten into powder and so taken, helps such as are extremely troubled 
Mathiolus.  with scabs and itch, are medicinal in the French-pox, hard swellings, inward wounds, being of a drying, cleansing and healing faculty.  
Scordii. Of Scordium, or water-Germander: see the herb.  
Scillae. Of Squills, see the vinegar, and wine of Squills in the compounds.  
Scrophulariae. etc. Of Figwort, The roots being of the same virtue with the herb, I refer you thither.  
Scorzonerae. Of Vipers-grass, The root cheers the heart and strengthens the vital spirits, resists poison, helps passions and 
Monardus.  tremble of the heart, faintness, sadness, and melancholy, opens stops of the liver and spleen, provokes the terms easeth women of the fits of the mother, and helps swimmings in the head.  
Seseleos. Of Seleli, or Hart-wort, The roots provoke urine helps the falling-sickness.  
Sisari, secacul. Of Skirrets, they are hot and moist of good nourishment, something windy as all roots are, by reason of which they provoke lust, they stir up appetite and provoke urine.  
I hope I may without offence forbear mentioning, Comfry, and black Briony, twice, though the College did not.  
Sonchi. Of Sowthistles, see the herb.  
Spinae Albae, Bedegnar. I scarce know what name to give it, that will please the College, our English, both Physicians and Apothecaries, call that ball of thread that grows upon briars, Bedeguar, but the Arabians called our Lady's thistles, by that name, The roots of which are drying and binding, stops fluxes, bleeding, takes away cold swellings, and ease the pains of the teeth.  
Spatulae foetidae. Stinking gladon, a kind of flowerdeluce, called so for its unsavoury smell; it is hot and dry in the third degree: outwardly they help the Kings-evil, soften hard swellings, draw out broken bones: Inwardly taken, they help Convulsions, Ruptures, Bruises, Infirmities of the Lungs.  
Tamarisci. Of Tamaris. See the Herbs, and Barks.  
Tanaceti. Of tansy. The root Eaten is a singular remedy for the Gout; the rich may bestow the cost to preserve it.  
Thapsiae etc. A venomous root, outlandish: therefore no more of it.  
Tormentillae. Of Tormentil. A kind of sinkfoyl, dry in the third degree, but moderately hot; exceeding good in Pestilences, provokes sweat, stays vomiting, cheers the heart, expels poison.  
Trifolii. Of trefoil. See the Herb.  
Tribuli Aquatici. Of water-Caltrops: The roots lie too far under water for me to reach to.  
Trachelli. Of Throatwort: by some called Canterburybels': by some Coventry-Bells. They help Diseases and Ulcers in the throat.  
Trinitatis herbae. Hearts-ease, or Pansies: I know no great virtue they have.  
Tunicis. I shall tell you the virtues when I know what it is.  
Tripolii. The root purgeth Phlegm, expels Poison.  
Turbith. The root purgeth Phlegm, (being hot in the third degree) chiefly from the exterior parts of the body; it is corrected with Ginger, or Mastic.  
Tuberum. Of Toads-stools: Whether these be roots or no it matters not much: for my part I know little need of them, either in food or physic.  
Victorialis. An Outlandish kind of Garlic, they say being hung about the necks of cattle that are blind suddenly, it helps them, and defends those that bear it, from evil spirits.  
Swallow wort, and Teazles were handled before.  
Ulmariae, Reginae prati etc. Mead-sweet, is cold and dry, binding, stops Fluxes, and the immodderate flowing of the terms in women.  
Urticae. Of Nettles, see the leaves.  
Zedoariae. Of Zedoary, or Set-wall, this and Zurumbet, according to Rhazis and Mesue, are all one, Avicenna thinks them different, I hold with Mesue, indeed they differ in form, for the one is long the other round, they are both hot and dry in the second degree, expel wind, resist poison, stop Fluxes and the Terms, stay Vomiting, help the Colic, and kill Worms.  
Zingiberis. Of Ginger, helps digestion, warms the stomach clears the sight, and is profitable for old men, heats the joints and therefore is profitable against the Gout, expels wind, it is hot and dry in the third degree.   

BARKS  
Apii rad.. Of the Roots of Smallage. Take notice here, that the Barks both of this Root, as also of Parsley, Fennel etc. is all that of the Root which is in use, neither can it properly be called Bark, for it is all the root the hard pith in the middle excepted, which is always thrown away, when the roots are used. It is something hotter and drier than Parsley, and more medicinal, it opens stops, provokes urine, helps digestion, expels wind, and warms a cold stomach.  
Avellanarum. Of Hazel, the rind of the tree provokes urine, breaks the stone, the husks and shells of the nuts, dried and given in powder, stay the immoderate flux of the terms in women.  
Aurantiorum. Of Oranges, both these and also Lemons and Citrons, are of different qualities, the outward bark, viz, what looks red, is hot and dry, the white is cold and moist, the juice colder than it, and the seeds hot and dry, the outward bark is that which here I am to speak to, it is somewhat hotter than that either of Lemons or Citrons, therefore it warms a cold stomach more, and expels wind better, but it strengthens not the heart so much.  
Berber etc. Barberries, the rind of the tree according to Clusius, being steeped in wine, and the wine drunk, purgeth choler, and is a singular remedy for the Yellow Jaundice.  
Cassia Lignea etc. It is something more oily than Cinnamon, yet the virtues being not much different, I refer you thither.  
Capparis Rad. Of Caper Roots, see the roots.  
Castanearum. Of Chestnuts. The bark of the Chestnut-tree is dry and binding, and stops fluxes.  
Cinnamomum. Cinnamon, and Cassia Lignea, are hot in the second degree, strengthens the stomach, helps digestion, causeth a sweet breath, resists poison, provokes urine and the terms, causeth speedy delivery to women in travail, helps coughs and defluxions of humours upon the lungs, dropsies and difficulty of urine, In ointments it takes away red pimples, and the like deformities of the face.  
Citrii. Of Pome Citrons, the outward pill which I suppose is that which is meant here, strengthens the heart, resists poison, amends a stinking breath, helps digestion, comforts a cold stomach.  
Ebuli rad.. Of the Roots of Dwarf-Elder, or Walwort, see the root.  
Enulae. Of Elicampane, see the roots.  
Esulae Rad. See the roots.  
Fabarum. of Beans. Bean cod, (or pods as we in Suffex call them) being burned, the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints, old bruises, gouts, and sciaticas.  
Focniculi rad.. Of Fennel roots, see the roots, and remember the observation given in Smallage at the beginning of the barks,  
Fraxini rad.. Of the bark of Ash-tree roots, that the virtue lies only in the bark of the root, I suppose it to be only nicety, but the bark of the tree, helps the rickets, is moderately hot and dry, stays vomiting, being burnt the ashes made into an ointment helps Leprosy and other deformity of the skin, easeth the pains of the spleen.  
Granatorum. Of Pome granates, the rind, or pill cools, and forcibly binds, stays fluxes and the terms in women, helps digestion, strengthens weak stomaches, fastens the teeth, and are good for such whose gums wast.  
Guajaci. See the wood.  
Juglandium virid. Of Green Walnuts, as for the outward green bark of Walnuts, I suppose the best time to take them is before the Walnuts be shelled at all, and then you may take nuts and all (if they may properly be called nuts at such a time) you shall find them exceeding comfortable to the stomach, they resist poison, and are a most excellent preservative against the Plague, inferior to none, they are admirable for such as are troubled with consumptions of the lungs, the rich may keep them preserved, they that cannot do as they would must be content to do as they may, viz, dry them and so keep them. As for the shells of Walnuts I know nothing they are good for but only to make sport, for if you fill four of them full of pitch, and show a cat with them, and put her into a chamber, she will make pretty sport to please a melancholy fancy.  
Lauri. Of Bay-tree, see the root.  
Limonnm. Of Lemmons, the outward pill is of the nature of Citron, but held not so effectual, however let the poor country man that cannot get the other, use this.  
Mandragorae rad.. Be pleased to look back to the root.  
Myrobalanorum. Of Myrobalans, see the fruits.  
Macis. Of Mace, it is hot in the third degree, strengthens the stomach and helps concoction.  
Maceris etc. It is held to be the inner Bark of the Nutmeg-tree, helps fluxes and spitting of blood.  
Petroselini rad.. Of Parsley roots, opens obstructions, provokes urine and the terms, warms a cold stomach.  
Prunelli sylvesiris. Of Sloe-tree, I know no use of it.  
Pineaerum putamina. Pine-shucks, or husks, I suppose they mean of the cones that hold the seeds, both those and also the bark of the tree stop fluxes, and help the lungs.  
Querci. Of Oak-tree, both the bark of the Oak, and Acorn cups are drying and cold, binding, stop fluxes and the terms, as also the running of the reins.  
Rhaphani. Of Rhadishes, I could never see any bark they had.  
Suberis. Of Cork, it is good for something else besides to stop bottles, being dry and binding, stauncheth blood, helps Paulus. fluxes, especially the ashes of it being burnt.  
Sambuci etc. Of Elder roots and branches, purgeth water, helps the dropsy.  
Cort. Medius Tamaricis. The middle Bark of Tamaris easeth the spleen, helps the Rickets.  
Tilliae. Of Linetree, boiled, the water helps burnings.  
Thuris. Of Frankincense. I must plead Ignoramus.  
Vlmi. Of Elm, moderately hot and cleansing, very good for wounds, burns, and broken bones.   

WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS OR 
(a) Scobs', properly signifies Saw. dust.  RASPING.  
〈◊〉, Lignum Aloes. Wood of Aloes; is moderately hot and dry: a good Cordial: a rich perfume: a great strengthener to the stomach.  
Aspalathus. Rose-wood: There are divers bushes called by the name of Aspalathus: But because the College have set it down amongst the Woods, (I suppose they mean the tree) it is moderately hot and dry, stops looseness, provokes urine, and is excellent to cleanse filthy ulcers.  
Bresilium, Brassil, All the use I know of it is to die cloth, and make red ink.  
Buxus. Box, many Physicians have written of it, but no Physical virtue of it, and I suppose the College quoted it only as a word of course.  
Cypressus. Cypress, the wood laid amongst clothes secures them from moths. See the leaves.  
Ebenum. Ebeny; It is held by Dioscorides to clear the sight, being either boiled in wine, or burned to ashes.  
Guajacum, lignum 〈◊〉; Dries, attenuates, causeth sweat, resisteth putrefaction, is admirable good for the French pocks as also for Ulcers, Scabs and Leprosy.  
Juniperus. Juniper; the smoke of the wood drives away Serpents; the ashes of it made into lie, cures Itch and Scabs.  
Nephriticum. It is a light wood and comes from Hispaniola, being steeped in water will soon turn it to a blue colour; it is hot and dry in the first degree, and so used as before is an admirable remedy for the stone, as also for obstructions of the liver and spleen.  
Rhodium, increaseth milk in nurses.  
Santalum, album, rubrum, citrinum. White, red, and yellow Sanders; they are all cold and dry in the second or third degree; The red stops defluxions from any part, and helps inflammations; the white and yellow (of which the yellow is 〈◊〉) cool the heat of fevers, strengthen the heart and cause cheerfulness.  
〈◊〉, Is hot and dry in the Second degree, it opens obstructions or stops, it strengthens the breast exceedingly, if it be weakened through cold, it breaks the stone stays vomiting, provokes urine, and is very profitable in the French pocks.  
Tamaris, is profitable for the Rickets, and burnings.  
Xylobalsamum, Wood of the Balsam-tree, Is hot and dry in the second degree according to Galen. I never read any great virtues of it.   

HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.  
ABrotanum mas, foemina. Southernwood male and female is hot and dry in the third degree, resists poison, kills worms, provokes lust, outwardly in plasters it dissolves cold swellings, helps the bitings of venomous beasts, makes hair grow.  
Absinthium etc. Wormwood, it's several sorts, are all hot and dry in the second or third degrees, the common Wormwood is thought to be hottest, they all help weakness of the stomach, cleanse choler, kill worms, opens stops, helps surfeits, clears the sight, resists poison, cleanseth the blood, and secures clothes from moths.  
Abugilissa etc. Alkanet, the leaves are something drying and binding, but inferior in virtue to the roots to which I refer you.  
Acetosa. Sorrel, is moderately cold and dry, binding, cutteth tough humours, cools the brain, liver, and stomach, cools the blood in fevers, and provokes appetite.  
Acanthus. Bearsbreech or brank ursine, is temperate, something moist, see the root.  
Adiantum, album, nigrum. Maidenhair, white and black. They are temperate, yet drying, white Maidenhair is that we usually call wall-rue, they both open obstructions, cleanse the breast and lungs of gross slimy humours, provoke urine help ruptures and shortness of wind.  
Adiantum Aureum, Polytricum. Golden Maidenhair its temperature and virtues are the same with the former, helps the Spleen, burned and lie made with the Ashes, keeps the hair from falling off from the head.  
Agrimonia. Agrimony, Gallen Eupatorium, it is hot and 
Galen, Pliny. Dioscorides, Serapio.  dry in the first degree, binding, it amends the infirmities of the liver, helps such as piss blood, helps inward wounds, opens obstructions, outwardly applied it helps old sores, ulcers etc. Inwardly it helps the Jaundice and the Spleen.  
Ageratum. Mesue his Eupatorium. Maudlein, is hot and dry in the Second degree, provokes urine and the terms, dries the brain, opens stops, helps the green sickness, and profits such as have a cold weak liver, outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix, and fills hollow ulcers with flesh.  
Agnus Castus etc. Chast-tree, the leaves are hot and dry in the third degree, expel wind, consume the seed, cause Chastity being only born about one, it dissolves swellings of the cod being applied to them, headache, Lethargy, Also Dioscorides saith a branch of it preserves a traveller from weariness.  
Alleluja, Lujula etc. Wood-sorrel, it is of the temperature of other Sorrel, and held to be more cordial, cools the blood helps ulcers in the mouth, hot defluxions upon the lungs, wounds ulcers & c-  
Alcea. Vervain Mallow, the root helps fluxes and burstness. 
Dioscorides. AEtius.   
Allium. Garlic is hot and dry in the fourth degree, troublesome to the stomach, it dulls the sight, spoils a clear skin, resists poison, easeth the pains of the teeth, helps the bitings of mad-dogs and venomous beasts, helps ulcers, leprosies, provokes urine, is exceeding opening, and profitable for dropsies.  
Althaea etc. March-mallows, are moderately hot and drier than other mallows, they help digestion, and mitigate pain, ease the pains of the stone, and in the sides.  
Alsine. Chickweed, is cold and moist without any binding, 
Galen.  aswages swelling, and comforts the sinews much, and therefore is good for such as are shrunk up, it dissolves Aposthumes, hard swellings and helps mangy hands and legs.  
Alchymilla. Ladies-mantle, is hot and dry; some say in the second degree, some in the third: Outwardly it helps wounds, reduceth women's breasts that hang bagging: inwardly helps bruises and ruptures, stays vomiting, and the whites in women, and is very profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry through cold and moisture.  
Alcanna. Privet, hath a binding quality, helps ulcers of the mouth, is good against burnings and lcaldings, cherrisheth the nerves or sinews.  
Amaracus, Majorana. Margerum, some say 'tis hot and dry in the second degree, some advance it to the third. Sweet Marjoran, is an excellent remedy for cold diseases in the brain, helps such as are given to much sighing, easeth pains in the belly, provokes urine, outwardly in oils or salves, it resisteth 〈◊〉 that are shrunk, limbs out of Joint, all aches and swellings coming of a cold cause.  
Angelica. is hot and dry in the third degree, openeth, digesteth maketh thin, strengthens the heart helps fluxes, and loathsomeness of meat, it is an enemy to poison and pestilence provokes the terms in women, and brings away the afterbirth. 
Galen.   
Anagallis, mass, foemina. Pimpernel, male and female, they are something hot and dry, and of such a drawing quality that they draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, amend the sight, cleanse ulcers, help infirmities of the liver and reins.  
Anethum. Dill, is hot and dry in the second degree. Dioscorides saith, it breeds milk in Nurses. But Galen he denies it: Howsoever, it stays vomiting, easeth hiccoughs, assuageth swellings, provokes urine, helps such women as are troubled with the fits of the mother, and digests raw humours.  
Apium. 
a So it is commonly used; but indeed all parsley is called by the name of Apium; of which this is one kind.  Smallege. It is somewhat hotter and drier than Parsley, and more efficacious; it opens stops of the liver, and spleen, cleanseth the blood, provokes the terms, helps a cold stomach to digest its meat, and is singular good against the yellow Jaundice.  
Aparine. Coose-grasse, or Clevers; they are meanly hot and dry, cleansing; helps the bitings of venomous beasts, 
Dioscorides.  keeps men's bodies from growing too fat, helps the yellow-jaundice, 
Pliny.  stales bleeding and fluxes, and helps green wounds. 
Galen.   
Aspergula odorata. Woodroof: cheers the heart, makes 
Tragus.  men 〈◊〉, helps melancholy, and opens the stops of the liver.  
Aquilegia. Columbines, help sore throats, are of a drying, binding quality.  
Argentina. Silver-weed, or Wild tansy, cold and dry almost in the third degree; stops lasks, fluxes, and the terms, good against ulcers, the stone, and inward wounds, it stops the immoderate flux of the terms in women if it be but worn in their shoes; easeth gripe in the belly, fasteneth loose teeth; outwardly it takes away freckles, morphew, and sunburning, it takes away inflammations; and bound to the wrists stops the violence of the fits of an ague.  
Artanita. Showbread: hot and dry in the third degree; it is so dangerous a purge that I dare not take it myself, therefore would I not advise others: outwardly in ointments it takes away freckles, sunburning, and the marks which the smal-pocks leave behind them: dangerous for women with child, yea so dangerous, that both Dioscorides and Pliny say, it will make a woman miscarry if she do but stride over it.  
〈◊〉, longa, rotunda. Birthwort long and round: see the Roots.  
Artemisia. Mugwort, is hot and dry in the second degree; binding: an herb apropriated to the feminine sex, it brings down the terms, brings away both birth and after birth, easeth pains in the matrix.  
Asparagus, see the Roots.  
Asarum, etc. Asarabacca, hot and dry, provokes vomiting and urine, and are good for dropsies; they are corrected with mace or cinnamon.  
Atriplex. etc. Orach, or Arrach; it is cold in the first degree, and moist in the second: saith Galen, and makes the belly soluble. Dioscorides saith, they cure the yellow-jaundice. Lycus' Neop. saith, they help such as have taken Cantharideses. Mathiolus saith, 
(a) I doubt he was mistaken,  it purgeth upwards and downwards. Hypocrates saith, it cools hot aposthumes, and St. Anthony's fire.  
Auricula muris, major. Mouse-ear, hot and dry, of a bindding quality, it is admirable to heal any wounds, inward or outward, as also ruptures or burstness, edge-tools quenched in the juice of it, will cut Iron without turning the edge, and lastly it helps the swelling of the Spleen, Coughs, and Consumptions of the lungs.  
Attractilis hirsuta, Wild Bastard-saffron, distaff thistle or Spindle-thistle, is dry and moderately digesting. helpeth the 
Galen. Dioscorides.  bitings of venomous beasts, Mesue saith it is hot in the first degree, and dry in the second, and cleanseth the breast and lungs of tough phlegm, but if the College do intend Cardnus Bened, bythis, we shall talk with that by and by.  
Balsamita etc. Costmary, Alecost: See Maudlin, of which I take this to be one sort or kind.  
Barba jovis, sedum majus. Housleek or Sengreen, cold in the third degree, profitable against the Shingles and other hot 
Galen. Dioscorides.  creeping ulcers, inflammations, St. Anthony's fire, frenzyes, it cools and takes away hot rheums in the eyes, it takes away corns from the toes being bathed with the juice of it, and a skin of the leaf laid over the place, stops fluxes, helps scalds and burnings.  
Bardana. Clotpoll burr, or Burdock, temperately dry and wasting, something cooling, it is held to be a good remedy against shrinking of the sinews, they ease pains in the bladder, provoke urine. Also Mizaldus saith that a leaf applied to the top of the head of a woman draws the Matrix upwards but applied to the soles of the feet draws it downwards, and is therefore an admirable remedy for suffocations, precipitations, and dislocatious of the Matrix, if a wise man have but the using of it.  
Beta, Alba, nigra, rubra. Beets, white, black, and red, black Beets I have as yet as little skill in as knowledge of, The white are something colder and moister than the red, both of them loosen the belly but have little or no nourishment, Simeon Sethi tells a large story of several diseases they breed in the stomach, I scarce believe him, this is certain, the white, provoke to stool, and are more cleansing, open stops of the liver and spleen, help the vertigo or swimming in the head The red stay fluxes, help the immoderate flowing of the terms in women, and are good in the yellow Jaundice.  
Benedicta, Caryophyllata. Avens, hot and dry, help the colic and rawness of the stomach, stitches in the sides, help bruises, and take away clotted blood in any part of the body.  
Betonica vulgaris, Common or would Bettony, hot and dry in the second degree, helps the falling sickness, and all headaches 
Galen.  coming of cold, cleanseth the breast and lungs, opens stops of the liver and spleen, as the rickets etc. procures appetite, helps sour belchings, provokes urine, breaks the stone, mitigates the pains of the reins and bladder, helps cramps, and convulsions, resists poison, helps the gout, such as piss blood, madness and headache, kills worms, help bruises, and cleanseth women after their labour.  
Betonica Pauli etc. Paul's betony, or male Lluellin, to which add Elatine or female Lluellin which comes afterwards, they are pretty temperate, stop defluxions of humours, that fall from the head into the eyes, are profitable in wounds, helps filthy foul eating Cankers, Pena tells of a man whose nose was almost eaten off, that was cured by it, I believe the industrious may find it an admirable herb for such uses.  
Betonica Coronaria etc. Is clove gillyflowers: see the flowers.  
Bellis. Daisyes, are cold and moist in the second degree, they ease all pains, and swellings coming of heat, in Clysters they lose the belly, are profitable in Fevers, and inflammations of the stones, they take away bruises and blackness and blewness: if a woman of a turbulent spirit should chance to stumble against her husband's fists, they are admirable in wounds, and inflammations of the lungus or blood.  
Bli●um. Blites, some say they are cold and moist, others cold and dry, none mention any great virtues of them.  
Borrago. Porridge, hot and moist, comforts the heart, cheers the spirits, drives away sadness, melancholy, they are rather laxitive than binding, help swooning and heart qualms, breed special good blood help consumptions, madness, and such as are much weakened by sickness.  
Bonus Henricus. good Henry, or all good, hot and dry, cleansing, and scouring, inwardly taked it loosens the belly, outwardly it cleanseth old sores and ulcers.  
Botrys. Oak of jerusalem, hot and dry in the second degree, such as are short wound, cuts and wastes gross and tough phlegm, laid amongst clothes they preserve them from moths and give them a sweet smell.  
Branca ursina. Bear's breech.  
Brionia etc. Briony white and black: both are hot and dry in the third degree, purge violently, yet are held to be wholesome Physic for such as have dropsyes, vertigo or swimming in the head, falling-sickness, etc. Certainly it is a scurvy strong troublesome purge, therefore ill to be tamperd with by the unskilful, outwardly in ointments it takes away freckles, whrinkles, morphew, scars, spots, etc. from the face.  
Bursa pastoris, Shepheards-purse, is manifestly cold and dry, though Lobel and Pena thought the contrary, it is binding and stops blood, the terms in women, spitting and pissing of blood, cools inflammations.  
Buglossum. 
* in Sussex (because they must be Francified) called Languedebeef: in plain English Ox tongue  bugloss, its virtues are the same with borage.  
Bugula. Bugle, or middle Comfry, is temperate for heat, but very drying, excellent for falls or inward bruises for it dissolves congealed blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the rikets and other stops of the liver, outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangrenes and fistulas, it helps broken bones and 
* Memb 〈…〉 of joint.  dislocations. To conclude, let my country men esteem it as a Jewel.  
Buphthalmum etc. Ox-eye, Mathiolus saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore, to the virtues of which I refer you.  
Buxus. Boxtree, the leaves are hot, dry, and binding, they are profitable against the bitings of mad-dogs, both taken inwardly, and boiled and applied to the place, besides they are excellent to cure horses of the bots.  
Calamintha, Montana, palustris. Mountain, and Water Calamint, for the water Calamint: see Mints, than which it is accounted stronger. Mountain Calamint, is hot and dry in the third degree, provoke urine and the terms, hasten the birth in women; brings away the after birth, helps cramps and convulsions, difficulty of breathing, kills worms, helps 
Galen. Dioscorides Apuleius.  the Leprosy, outwardly used, it helps such as holds their necks on one side.  
Calendula etc. Marigolds, the leaves are hot in the second degree, and something moist, loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth, helps the toothache, and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.  
Callitricum. Maidenhair. See Adianthum. Caprifolium. Honysuckles: The leaves are hot, and therefore naught for inflammations of the mouth and throat, for which the ignorant people often give them, and Galen was true in this, let modern Writers write theirpleasure, If you chew but a leaf of it in your mouth, experience will tell you, that it is likelier to cause than to cure a sore throat, they provoke urine, and purge by urine, bring speedy delivery to women in travail, yet procure barrenness, and hinder conception, outwardly they dry up foul ulcers, and cleanse the face from morphew, sunburning and freckles.  
Carduncellus etc. Groundsel, cold and moist according to Tragus, helps the Colic, and pains or gripins in the belly, helps such as cannot make water, cleanseth the reins, purgeth Choler and sharp humours, outwardly it easeth women's 
AEgineta.  breasts that are swollen and inflamed, (or as themselves say) have gotten an ague in their breasts, as also inflammation of the joints, nerves, or sinews.  
Carduus B. Alariae. Our Ladies-thistles, they are far more temperate than Carduus benedictus, open obstructions of the liver, help the Jaundice and Dropsy, provoke urine, break the stone.  
Carduus benedictus. In plain English, Blessed thistle. though I confess it be better known by the latin name, it is hot and dry in the second degree, cleansing and opening, helps swimming & giddiness in the head, deafness, strengthens the memory, 
Camerarius. Arnoldus villanovanus.  helps gripping pains in the belly, kills worms, provokes sweat, expels poison, helps inflammation of the liver, is very good in pestilences, and the French pocks, outwardly applied it ripens Plague-sores, and helps hot swellings, the bitings of mad-dogs, and venomous beasts, and foul filthy ulcers.  
Carlina. See the roots under the name of white Chameleon.  
Corallina. A kind of Sea-Mosse, cold, binding, drying, good 
Galen.  for hot gouts, inflammations, also they say it kills worms, and therefore by some is called Maw- 〈◊〉.  
Cassutha, cuscuta, podagra lini. Doddar: See Epithimum.  
Caryophyllata. Avens, or herb Bennet, hot and dry, they help the Colic, Rawness of the stomach, Stitches in the sides, Stops of the liver, and bruises.  
Cataputia minor. A kind of Spurge: See Tithymalus.  
Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints, the virtues are the same with Calaminth.  
Cauda Equina. Horse-tail, is of a binding drying quality, cures wounds, and is an admirable remedy for sinews that are shrunk, yea, Galen saith it cures sinews though they be cut in sunder: but Columbus holds that is incurable unless they be cut within the Muscle; well than we will take Galen in the charitablest sense, however this is certain, it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose, or by wound, stops the Terms in women, Fluxes, Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder, Coughs, Ulcers in the Lungs, Difficulty of breathing.  
Caulis, Brassica hortensis, silvestris. Coleworts, or Cabbages garden and wild. They are drying and binding, help dimness of the sight, help the spleen, preserve from drunkenness and help the evil effects of it, provoke the terms, and if you will believe Cato, being laid on the top of the head, they draw the matrix upward, and therefore are good for the falling out of the womb.  
Centaurium, majus, minus. Centaury the greater and lesser, They say the greater will do wonders in curing wounds: see the root. The lesser is that which is commonly in Sussex known by the name of Centaury, a present remedy for the yellow Jaundice, opens stops of the liver, gall, and spleen purgeth choler, helps the gout, clears the sight, purgeth the stomach, helps the dropsy and greensickness.  
Centinodium etc. Knotgrass, cold in the second degree, helps spitting and pissing of blood, stops the terms and all other fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, gonorrhaea or running 
Brassavolus. Camerarius.  of reins, weakness of the back and joints, inflammations of the privities, and such as piss by drops, and it is an excellent remedy for hogs that will not eat their meat.  
Cerefolium vulgar et Myrrbis, Common and great Chervil. Take them both together and they are temperately hot and dry, provoke urine, they stir up lust and desire of copulation, comfort the heart and are good for old people, help pleuresies and pricking in the sides.  
Caepaea, Anagallis aquatica. Brooklime, hot and dry, but not so hot and dry as watercreases, Tragus saith they are hot and moist, they help mangy horses: see watercreases.  
Ceterach etc. Spleenwort, moderately hot, wastes and consumes the spleen, in so much that Vitruvius affirms he hath known hogs that have fed upon it, that have had (when they were killed) no spleens at all, it is excellent good for melancholy people, helps the strangury, provokes urine, and breaks the stone in the bladder.  
Chamaepitis. Ground-pine, hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, helps the Jaundice, Sciatica, stops of the liver, and spleen, provoks the terms, cleanses the entrails dissolves congealed blood, resists poison, cures wounds and ulcers.  
Chamaemelum, sativum, sylvestre. Garden and wild Chamomel, Garden Chamomel is hot and dry in the first degree, and as gallant a medicine against the stone in the bladder as grows upon the earth, it expels wind, helps belchings, and potently provokes the terms, used in baths it helps pains in the sides, gripe and gnawings in the belly.  
Chamaedris etc. Germander, hot and dry in the third degree, cuts and brings away tough humours, opens stops of the liver and spleen, helps coughs and shortness of breath, strangury and stopping of urine and provokes the terms.  
Chelidonium utrumque. Celondine both sorts, Small Celondine is usually called pilewort, it is something hotter and drier than the former, but not in the fourth degree as Galen and Dioscorides would have it, they say it helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles, by only carrying it about one, (but if it will not, bruise it and apply it to the grief) and from thence it took its name. Celondine the greater is hot and dry (they say in the third degree) any way used, either the joyce, or made into an oil or ointment is as great a preserver of the sight and as excellent a help for sore eyes as any is.  
Cinara etc. Artichokes, they provoke lust, and purge by urine.  
Cichorium. Succory, to which add Endive which comes after, they are cold and dry in the second degree, cleansing and opening, they cool the heats of the liver and are profitable in the yellow jaundice, and burning fevers, help excoriations in the yard, hot stomaches, and outwardly applied help hot rewms in the eyes.  
Cicuta. Hemlock, cold in the fourth degree, poisonous, outwardly applied it helps priapgismus, or continual standing of the yard, the shingles, St. Antbonies' fire or any eating ulcers, as also the gout.  
Clematis Daphnoides, Vinca pervinca. Peruinkle, hot in the second degree, something dry and binding, stops lasks, spitting of blood, and the terms in women.  
Consolida major. Comfry, I do not conceive the leaves to be so virtuous as the roots.  
Consolida media. Bugles of which before.  
Consolida minima. Daisies.  
Consolida rubra. Golden rod, hot and dry in the second degree, cleanseth the reins, provokes urine, brings away gravel, an admirable herb for wounded people to take inwardly, stops blood etc.  
Consolida Regalis. Delphinium. Lark's heels, resist poison, help the bitings of venomous beasts,  
Saracenica Solidago. Saracens Confound, helps inward wounds, sore mouths, sore throats, wastings of the lungs and liver.  
Coronopus. Buckhorn plantain, or Sea plantain, cold and dry, helps the bitings of venomous beasts, either taken inwardly or applied to the wound, helps the Colic, breaks 
AEgineta,  the stone.  
Cotona jam. hath got a many English names, Cottonweed, Cudweed, Chaffweed, and petty-cotton, of a drying and binding nature, boiled in lie it keeps the head from nits and lice, being laid among clothes it keeps them safe from moths, kills worms, helps the bitings of venomous beasts, taken in a tobacco pipe, it helps coughs of the lungs, and vehement head aches.  
〈◊〉. Crossewort, (there is a kind of Gentian called also by this name, which I pass by) is dry and binding, exceeding good for inward or outward wounds, either inwardly taken, or outwardly applied, and an excellent remedy for such as are bursten.  
〈◊〉. Orpine, very cool, outwardly used with vinegar it clears the skin, inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of the stomach and bowels, ulcers in the lungs, bloody flux, and Quinsy in the throat.  
Critbamus, etc. Sampire; hot and dry, helps difficulty of urine, the yellow-jaundice, provokes the terms, helps digestion; 
Galen.  openeth stops of the liver and spleen.  
Cucumis Asininus. Wild Cucumbers: see Elaterium.  
Cyanus major, minor. Blue-bottle great and small; a fine coolingherb, helps bruises, wounds, broken veins, the juice dropped into the eye helps the inflammations thereof.  
Cynoglossum. Hounds-tongue, cold and dry; applied to the Fundameut, helps the Hemorrhoids, heals wounds, and ulcers, and is a present remedy against the bitings of Dogs, 
Dioscorides.  burnings, and sealdings.  
Cypressus. Chamae cyparissus. Cypress tree, the leaves are hot and binding, helps ruptures, and Polypus, or flesh growing in the nose.  
Chamaecyparissus. Is Lavender-Cotton: resists poison, kills worms.  
Dictamnus, Cretensis. Dictamny, or Dittany of Crect, hot and dry, brings away dead children, hastens women's travel, brings away the afterbirth,, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison; it's an admirable remedy against wounds and Gun shot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, it draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say, the Goats and Deers in Crect, being wounded with Arrows, eat this herb, which makes the Arrows fall out of themselves: And from thence came the tale in Virgil 
* Virg. AEniad. lib. 12.  about AEneas.  
Dipsacus, sativ. sylv. Teazels, garden and wild: The leaves bruised and applied to the temples, allay the heat in fevers, 
Galen,  qualify the rage in frenzies: the juice dropped into the ears, kill worms in them, (if there be any there to kill;) dropped into the eyes, clears the sight, helps redness and pimples in the face, being anointed with it.  
Ebulus. Dwarf-Elder, or Walwort: hot and dry in the third degree, wastes hard swellings, being applied in form of a pultis; the hair of the head being anointed with the juice of it turns black; the leaves being applied to the place, help inflammations, burnings, scaldings, the bitings of mad dogs; mingled with Bull's suet is a present remedy for the gout; inwardly taken, is a singular purge for the dropsy and gout. 
Dr. Butler.   
Echium. Vipersbuglosse, Viper's herb, Snake-buglosse, Wall-buglosse, Wild-buglosse, several countries give it these several names, it is a singular remedy being eaten, for the biting of venomous beasts.  
Empetron, Calcifraga, Herniaria etc. Rupture-wort, or Burstwort, the English name tells you it is good against ruptures, and so such as are bursten shall find it if they please to make trial of it, either inwardly taken or outwardly applied to the place or both. Also the latin name; hold it forth to be good against the stone, which who so tries shall find true.  
Enula campana. Elicampane, provokes urine: See the root.  
Epithimum. Dodder of Time, to which add common Dodder which is usually that which grows upon flax, indeed every dodder retains a virtue of that herb, or plant it grows upon, as dodder that grows upon broom, provokes urine forcibly, and loosens the belly, and is moister than that which grows upon flax, that which grows upon Time, is hotter and drier than that which grows upon flax, even in the third degree, opens 
AEtius.  obstructions, helps infirmities of the spleen, purgeth melancholy, 
Melue.  relieves drooping spirits, helps the rickets; that 
Actuarius.  which grows on flax, is excellent for agues in young children, 
Serapio.  strengthens weak stomaches, purgeth choler, provokes urine, 
Avicenna  opens stops in the reins and bladder; that which grows upon nettles, provokes urine exceedingly.  
Eruca. Rocket, hot and dry in the third degree, being 
〈◊〉.  eaten alone, causeth headache by its heat, procureth lust.  
Eupatorium. See Ageratum.  
Euphragia. Eybright: something hot and dry, the very sight of it refresheth the eyes; inwardly taken, it restores the 〈◊〉 and makes old men's eyes young; a drachm of it taken in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles, it comforts and strengtheneth the memory, outwardly applied to the place it helps sore eyes, and hurts in the eyes.  

See the Roots.  
〈◊〉 foemina.  
Filicula polypodium.  
Filipendula.   
Malabathrum. Indian-leaf, hot and dry in the second degree, comforts the stomach exceedingly, helps digestion, provokes urine, helps inflammations of the eyes, secures clothes from moths.  
Foeniculum. Fennel, Increaseth milk in Nurses, provokes urine, breaks the stone, easeth pains in the reins, opens stops, breaks wind, provokes the terms.  
Fragaris. Strawberry leaves, are cold, dry, and binding, a singular remedy for inflammations in wounds, hot diseases in the throat, they stop fluxes, and the terms, cool the heat of the stomach, and inflammations of the liver.  
Praxinus etc. Ash-trees: the leaves are moderately hot and dry, cure the bitings of Adders, and Serpents, by a certain antipathy (they say) there is between them, they stop looseness, and stay vomiting, help the rickets, open stoppages of the liver and spleen.  
Fumaria. Fumitory: Cold and dry, it openeth and cleanseth by urine, helps such as are itchy, and scabbed, clears the skin, opens stops of the liver and spleen, helps rickets, hypocondriac melancholy, madness, frenzies, quartan agues, looseneth the belly, gently purgeth melancholy, and addust choler.  
Galega. Goats-rue: Temperate in quality, resists poison, kills worms, helps the falling-sickness, resisteth the pestilence.  
Galion. Ladies-Bedstraw: dry and binding, stauncheth blood: boiled in oil, the oil is good to anoint a weary traveller; inwardly it provokes lust.  
Gentiana. See the Root.  
Genista. Broom, hot and dry in the second degree, cleanse and open the stomach, break the stone in the reins and bladder, help the green sickness: see the Flowers.  
Geranium. Cranebill, the divers sorts of it, one of which is that which is called Muscata, and in Sussex barbarously Muscovy, it is thought to be cool and dry, helps hot swellings, and by its smell amends a hot brain.  
Geranium Columbinum. or Doves foot, helps the wind Colic, pains in the belly, stone in the reins and bladder, and is singular good in ruptures, and inward wounds. I suppose these are the general virtues of them all.  
Gramen. Grasse: see the root.  
Gratiola. Hedge Hyssop, purgeth water and phlegm, but works very churlishly, Gesner commends it in dropsies.  
Asphodelus foem. see the root.  
Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and dry, excellent good for inflammations of the liver, or any other inflammations, yellow Jaundice.  
Hedera Arborea, Terrestris. Tree and ground-Ivy, Tree-Ivy helps ulcers, burnings, scaldings, the bad effects of the spleen, the juice snuffed up in the nose purgeth the head, it is admirable for surfeits, or headache, or any other ill effects coming of drunkenness, and therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus to have his head bound round with them.  
Ground-Ivy is that which usually is called Alehoof, hot and dry, the juice helps noise in the ears, fistulas, gouts, stops of the liver, it strengthens the reins and stops the terms, helps the yellow Jaundice, and other diseases coming of stopping of the liver, and is excellent for wounded people.  
Herba Campborata. Stinking Ground-pine, is of a drying faculty, and therefore stops defluxions either in the eyes or upon the lungs, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches, strengthens the nerves.  
Herba Moschata. Mentioned even now, me thinks the College should not have forgotten themselves so soon, how can a man that forgets himself remember his patient?  
Herba Paralysis, Primula veris. Primroses, or Cowslips, which you will, the leaves help pains in the head and joints, see the flowers which are most in use.  
Herba Paris. Herb True-love, or One-berry, Pena and Lobel, 〈◊〉 it resists poison, Mathiolus saith it takes away evil done by witchcraft, and affirms it by experience, as also long lingering sickness, however it is good for wounds, falls, bruises, aposthumes, inflammations, ulcers in the privities, Herb True-love is very cold in temperature.  
Herba Roberti.. A kind of Cranebil.  
Herba venti, Anemone. Wind flower, the juice snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it cleanseth filthy ulcers, increaseth milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps Leprosyes.  
Herniaria. The same with Empetron.  
Helxine, Pellitory of the wall, cold moist cleansing, helps the stone and gravel in the kidneys, difficulty of urine, sore throats, pains in the ears the juice being dropped in them, outwardly it helps the shingles and Saint Anthony's fire.  
Hippoglossum. Horsetongue. Tongueblade or double-tongue, the roots help the 〈◊〉, provoke urine, ease the hard labour of women, provoke the terms, the herb helps ruptures and the fits of the mother, it is hot in the second degree, dry in the first.  
Hippolapathum. Patience, or Monk's Reubarb: see the roots.  
Hipposelinum. Alexander's, or Alisanders', provoke urine expel the after birth, help the strangury, expel wind.  
Horminum. Clary, hot and dry in the third degree, helps weakness in the back, stops the running of the reins and the whites in women, provokes the terms, and helps women that are barren through coldness, or moisture, or both, causeth fruitfulness, but is hurtful for the memory.  
Hydropiper. Arsmart, hot and dry, consumes all cold swellings and blood congealed by bruises or stripes, applied to the place it helps that Aposthume in the joints commonly called a fellow (but in Sussex an Andicom) if you put a handful of it under the saddle upon a tired horses back it will make him travail fresh and lustily, strewed in a chamber, soon kills all the fleas there, this is the spotted or hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be given inwardly, there is a milder sort, called Persicaria, which is of a cooler milder quality, drying, excellent good for putrified ulcers, kill worms, I had almost forgot that the former is an admirable remedy for the gout, being roasted between two Tiles and applied to the grieved place, and yet I had it from Dr. Butler too.  
Hysopus. Hisop, help coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing, distillations upon the Lungs, it is of a cleansing quality, kill worms in the body, amends the whole colour of the body, helps the dropsy and spleen, sore throats and noise in the ears.  
Hyoscyamus etc. Henbane, the white Henbane is held to be cold but in the third degree, the black or common Henbane and the yellow, in the fourth, they stupefy the senses and therefore not to be taken inwardly, outwardly applied they help inflammations, hot gouts, applied to the temples they provoke sleep.  
Hypericon. St John's wort, is as gallant a wound herb as any is, either given inwardly, or outwardly applied to the wound, it is hot and dry, opens stops, helps spitting and vomiting of blood, it cleanseth the reins, provoks the terms, helps congealed blood in the stomach, and meseraick veins, the Falling sickness, Palsy, Cramps, and Aches in the joints.  
Hypoglottis Laurus Alexandrina. I aurel of Alexandria provokes urine and the terms, and is held to be a singular help to women in travail.  
Hypoglossum, the same with Hippoglossum before, only different names given by different Authors, the one deriving his name from the tongue of a horse of which form the leaf is, the other from the form of the little leaf, because small leaves like small tongues grow upon the greater.  
Iberis Cardamantice. Sciatica cresses, I suppose so called because they help the Sciatica, or Huckle-bone-gout.  
Inguinalis, Asler. Starwort, or sharewort, being bruised and applied they help swellings, botches, and venereous buboes in the groy ne, whence they took their name, as also inflammation and falling out of the fundament.  
Iris. See the roots.  
Isatis, Glasium. Woad, is drying and binding, the side being bathed with it, it easeth pains in the spleen, cleanseth filthy corroding gnawing ulcers.  
Iva Arthritica. The same with Camaepytis.  
Juncus odoratus. The same with Schoenantbus.  
Labrum veneris. The same with Dipsacus. Thus you see the College will be as SURE as the Miller was when he took his toll twice.  
Lactucs. Lettuce, cold and moist, cool the inflammation of the stomach commonly called heartburning, provoke sleep, resist drunkenness and take away the ill effects of it, cool the blood, quench thirst, breed milk, and are good for choleric bodies, and such as have a frenzy, or are frenitique, or as the vulgar say frantic.  
Lagobus, Herba Leporina. A kind of trefoil growing in France and Spain, let them that live there look after the virtues of it.  
Lavendula. Lavender, hot and dry in the third degree, The temples and fore head bathed with the juice of it, as also the smell of the herb helps swoonings, catalepsis, falling sickness, provided it be not accompanied with a Fever: see the flowers.  
Laureola. Laurel, the leaves purge upward and downward they are good for rhewmatick people to chew in their mouths for they draw forth much water.  
Laurus. Bay-tree, the leaves are hot and dry, resist drunkenness, they gently bind and help diseases in the bladder, help the stinging of bees and wasps, mitigate the pain of the stomach, dry and heal, open obstructions of the liver and spleen resist the 〈◊〉.  
Lappa minor. The lesser Burdock.  
Lentiscus. Mastick-tree, both the leaves and bark of it stop fluxes, (being hot and dry in the second degree) spitting and pissing of blood, and the falling out of the fundament.  
Lens palustris. Duckmeat, cold and moist in the second degree, helps inflammations, hot swellings, and the falling out of the fundament.  
Lepidium, Piperites. Dittander, Pepper-wort, or scarwort, 
〈◊〉.  a hot fiery sharp herb, admirable for the Gout being applied 
Pliny.  to the place, being only held in the hand it helps the toothache, 
Rondeletius.  and withal leaves a wan colour in the hand that holds it.  
Levisticum. Lovage: Clears the sight, taketh away redness and freckles from the face.  
Libanotis Coronaria, see Rosemary.  
Linaria. Toad-flax, or wild-flax, hot and dry, cleanse the reins and bladder, provoke urine, open the stops of the liver and spleen, and helps diseases coming thereof: outwardly they take away yellowness and deformity of the skin.  
lilium convallium. Lily of the valley: see the flowers.  
Lingua Cervina. Harts-tongue, drying and binding, stops blood, the terms and fluxes, opens stops of the liver and spleen, and diseases thence arising.  
Limonium. Sea-Buglosse, or Marsh-Buglosse, or as some will have it Sea Lavender: the seeds being very drying and binding, stop fluxes and the terms, help the colic and strangury.  
〈◊〉. Authors make some flutter about this herb, 〈◊〉 the best take it to be Trifolium Odoratum, Sweet 〈◊〉, which is of a temperate nature, cleanseth the eyes gently of such things as hinder the sight, cureth green wounds, ruptures, or burstness, helps such as piss blood or are bruised, and secures garments from moths.  
Lupulus. Hops, opening, cleansing, provoke urine; the young sprouts open stopings of the liver and spleen, cleanse the blood, clear the skin, help scabs and itch, help agues, purge choler.  
Lychnitis coronaria. Or as others more properly from the Greek write it Lychnis. Rose Campion, I know no great physical virtue it hath.  
Maeis. See the Barks.  
Magistrantia etc. Masterwort, hot and dry in the third degree, it is singular good against poison, pestilence, corrupt and unwholesome air, helps windiness in the stomach, causeth an appetite to one victuals, very profitable in falls, bruises, congealed and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs, the leaves chewed in the mouth cleanse the brain of superfluous humours, thereby preventing Lethargies and apoplexies.  
Malva. Mallows, the best of Authors account wild Malto be best, and hold them to be cold and moist in the first degree, they are profitable in the bitings of venomous beasts, the stingings of Bees and Wasps etc. inwardly they resist poison, provoke to stool, outwardly they assuage hard swellings of the privities, or other places, in clysters they help roughness and frettings of the guts, bladder, or fundament.  
Majorana, see Amaracus.  
Mandragora. Mandrakes, fit for no vulgar use but only to be used in cooling ointments.  
Marrubium, album, nigrum, foetidum. Marrubium Album is the common horehound, hot in the second degree and dry in the third, openeth the liver and spleen, cleanseth the breast and lungs, helps old coughs, pains in the sides, Phtisicks, or Ulceration of the lungs, it provokes the terms, easeth hard labour in child bearing, brings away the afterbirth.  
Marrubium nigrum & foetidum. Black and stinking Horehound, I take to be all one, hot and dry in the third degree, cure the bitings of mad-dogs, waist and consume hard knobs in the Fundament and Matrix, cleanse filthy ulcers.  
Unless by stinking Horehound the College should mean that which Fuchsius calls Staechys, if they do, it is hot and dry but in the first degree, and a singular remedy to keep wounds from inflammation.  
Marum. Herb Mastich, hot and dry in the third degree: good against Cramps and Convulsions.  
Matricaria. Featherfew, hot in the third degree, dry in the second, openeth, purgeth, a singular remedy for diseases incident to the matrix, and other diseases incident to women, easeth their travel, and infirmities coming after it; it helps the vertigo or dissines of the head, melancholy sad thoughts, applied to the wrists it help the ague.  
Matrisylva. The same with Caprisolium.  
Melilotus. Melilot: Inwardly taken provokes urine, breaks the stone, cleanseth the reins and bladder, cutteth and cleanseth the lungs of tough phlegm, the juice dropped into the eyes clears the sight, into the ears mitigates pain and noise there, the head bathed with the juice mixed with vinegar takes away the pains thereof; outwardly in pultisses it assuageth swellings in the privities and else where.  
Melissa. Bawm, is hot and dry; outwardly mixed with salt and applied to the neck, helps the Kings-Evil, bitings of 
Galen.  mad-dogs, and venomous beasts, and such as cannot hold their 
Avicinna,  necks as they should do; inwardly, it is an excellent remedy for a cold and moist stomach, cheers the heart, refresheth the mind, takes away grief, sorrow, and care, instead of which it produceth joy and mirth.  
Mentha sativa. Garden Mints, Spear Mints; are hot and dry in the third degree, provoke hunger, are wholesome for the stomach, stay vomiting, stop the terms, help sore heads in 
Pliny.  children, strengthen the stomach, cause digestion; outwardly 
Galen.  applied, they help the bitings of mad-dogs. Yet they hinder conception, and are naught for wounded people, they say by reason of an antipathy between them and Iron.  
Mentha Aquatica. Water-Mints: ease pains of the belly, headache and vomiting, gravel in the kidneys, and stone.  
Menthastrum. Horse Mint: I know no difference between them and Water Mints.  
Mercurialis, mass, foemina. Mercury male and female: they are both hot and dry in the second degree, cleansing, digesting, they purge watery humours, and further conception.  
Mezereon. Spurge Olive, or Widdow-wail: a dangerous 
Galen  purge; better let alone than meddled with.  
Millefolium. Yarrow, meanly cold and binding, a healing herb for wounds, stauncheth bleeding, and some say the juice snuffed up the nose causeth it to bleed, whence it was called, Nose-bleed, it stoppeth lasks, and the terms in women, helps the running of the reins, helps inflammations and excoriations of the yard, as also inflammations of wounds.  
Muscus. Moss, is something cold and binding, yet usually retains a smatch of the property of the tree it grows on, therefore that which grows upon Oaks is very dry and binding, Scrapio saith that it being infused in wine and the wine drunk, it stays vomiting and fluxes, as also the whites in women.  
Myrtus. Myrtle-tree, the leaves are of a cold earthy quality, drying and binding, good for Fluxes, spitting, vomiting, and pissing of blood, stop the Whites and Reds in women.  
Nardus. See the root.  
Nasturtium, Aquaticum, Hartnesse, Watercresses and Garden-cresses.  
Garden-cresses are hot and dry in the fourth degree, good for the Scurvy, Sciatica, hard swellings, yet do they trouble 
Dioscorides.  the belly, ease pains of the spleen, provoke lust.  
Water-cresses are hot and dry, cleanse the blood, help the Scurvy, provoke urine and the terms, break the stone help the green sickness, cause a fresh lively colour.  
Nastuctium Album, 〈◊〉. Treacle-mustard, hot and dry in the third degree, purgeth violently, dangerous for women with child. Outwardly it is applied with profit to the Gout.  
Nicotiana, Tobacco, and in reciting the virtues of this herb, I will follow Clusius, that none should think I do it without an Author. It is hot and dry in the second degree, and of a cleansing nature, the leaves warmed and applied to the head are excellent good, in 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. I know not what better name to give it, Old headaches, continual headaches. Take which ye will.  inveterate head aches and migraines, if the diseases come through cold or wind, change them often till the diseases be gone, help such whose necks be stiff, it easeth the faults of the breast, Asthmaes or hard Phlegm in the lappets of the lungs, easeth the pains of the stomach and windiness thereof being heat hot by the fire and applied to it, easeth the pains of the spleen being moistened in vinegar and applied hot to the side, they loosen the belly and 
a this I know by experience even where many other medicines have failed.  kill worms being applied to it in like manner, they break the stone being applied in like manner to the region of the bladder, help the rickets, being applied to the belly and sides, applied to the navel they give present ease to the fits of the mother, they take away cold ache in the joints applied to them, boiled, the liquor absolutely and speedily cures scabs and itch, neither is there any better salve in the world for wounds than may be made of it, for it cleanseth, fetcheth out the filth though it lie in the bones, brings up the flesh from the bottom, and all this it doth speedily, it cures wounds made with poisoned weapons, and for this Clufias brings many experiences to tedious here to relate, It is an admirable thing for Carbuncles, and Plague-sores, inferior to none, green wounds 'twill cure in a trice, ulcers and gangrenes very speedily, not only in men but also in beasts, therefore the Indians dedicated it to their god. Taken in a pipe it hath almost as many virtues, it easeth weariness, takes away the sense of hunger and thirst, provokes to stool, he saith, the Indians will travail four days without either meat or drink, by only chewing a little of this (made up like a Pill) in their mouths, It easeth the body of superfluons humours, opens stops. Monardus also confirms this judgement, and indeed a man might fill a whole volumn with the virtues of it.  
Nummularia. Money-wort or Herb-twopences, cold, dry, binding, helps Fluxes, stops the Terms, helps 〈◊〉 in the lungs, outwardly it is a special herb for wounds.  
Nymphaea. See the flowers.  
Ocymum. Basill, hot and moist, Simeon Sethi, saith the smell of Basil is good for the head, but Hollerius (and he no mean Physician neither) saith the continual smell of it hurts the brain and breeds Scorpions there and affirms his own knowledge of it, and that's the reason (saith he) there is such an Antipathy between it and Rue, which I am confident there is, the truth is, it will quickly putrify and breed worms. Hollerius saith, they are venomous, and that's the reason the name Basilicon was given to it: The best use that I know of it, is, it gives speedy deliverance to women in travel.  
Oleae folia. Olive-leaves, they are hard to come by here.  
Ononis. Rest harrow. See the roots.  
Ophioglosson. Adders-tongue: the leaves are very drying, being boiled in oil they make a dainty green balsam for green wounds: taken inwardly, they help inward wounds.  
Origanum. Organy, a kind of wild Marjoram, hot and dry in the third degree; helps the bitings of venomous beasts, such as have taken Opium, Hemlock, or Poppy; provokes urine, brings down the terms, helps old coughs; in ointment it helps scabs and itch.  
Oxylapathum. Sorrel, see Acetosae.  
Papaver etc. Poppyes; white, black, or erratic. I refer you to the Syrups of each.  
Parietaria. Given once before under the name of Helxine.  
Pastinaca. Parsnips, see the Roots.  
Persicaria. See Hydropiper: this is the milder sort of Arsesmart I described there: If ever you find it amongst the Compounds, take it under that notion.  
Pentaphyllum. Cynkfoil: very drying, yet but meanly hot, if at all; helps ulcers of the mouth, roughness of the windpipe, (whence comes hoarseness and coughs &c.) helps fluxes, creeping ulcers, and the yellow-jaundice; they say one leaf cures a quotidian ague, three a tertian, and four a quartan: I know it will cure agues without this curiosity if a wise man have the handling of it; otherwise a Cart load will not do it.  
Petroselinum. Parsly: see Smallage.  
Pes Columbinus. See Geranium.  
Persicorum folia. Peach Leaves: they are a gentle, yet a complete purger of choler, and diseases coming from thence, fit for children because of their gentleness.  
Pilosella. Mouseare, once before, and that's often enough.  
Pithyusa. A new name for Spurge, of the last edition.  
Plantago. Plantain, cold and dry, an herb though common, yet let none despise it, for it prevails mightily against tormenting pains and excoriations of the guts, bloody fluxes, it stops the terms and spitting of blood, 〈◊〉, or Consumptions 
Tragus.  of the lungs, the running of the reins, the whites 
Dioscorides.  in women, pains in the head, and frenzies, outwardly it clears the sight, taketh away inflammations, scabs, itch, the shingles, and all spreading sores, and is as wholesome an herb as can grow about a house.  
Polium etc. Poley, or Pellamountain, all the sorts are hot in the second degree and dry in the third, helps dropsyes the Yellow Jaundice, Infirmities of the Spleen, and provoke 
Dioscorides.  urine.  
Polygonum. Knotgrass.  
Polytrichum. Maidenhair.  
Portulaca. Purslain, Cold and moist in the second or third degrees, cools hot stomaches, and (I remember since I was a child that) it is admirable for one that hath set his teeth on edge by eating sour apples, it cools the blood, liver, and is good for hot diseases, or inflammations in any of these places, stops fluxes and the terms, and helps all inward Inflammations whatsoever.  
Porrum. Leeks: See the roots.  
Primula Veris. See Cowslips, or the flowers which you will.  
Prunella. selfheal, Carpenters-herb, and (in Sussex) Sickle-wort, moderately hot and dry, binding: See Bugle. So shall I not need write one thing twice, the virtues being the same.  
Pulegium. Penyroyal, hot and dry in the third degree, provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins, (for I take it, the herb is chiefly apropriated to those parts) strengthens women's backs, provokes the terms, easeth their labour in childbed, brings away the afterbirth, stays vomiting, strengthens the brain, (yea the very smell of it) breaks wind and helps the vertigo.  
Pulmonaria, arborea, et Symphytum maculosum. Lunguewort, I confess I searching Authors for these, found out many sorts of Lungueworts, yet all agreed that both these were one and the same, and helps infirmities of the lungs, as hoarseness, coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath etc.  
Pulicaria. Fleabane, hot and dry in the third degree, helps the bitings of venomous beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow Jaundice, the Falling-sickness, and such as cannot piss, it being burnt, the smoke of it kills all the gnats and fleas in the chamber, as also serpents if any be there, it is dangerous for women with child.  
Pyrus sylvestris. Wild Pear-tree, I know no virtue in the leaves.  
Pyrola. Wintergreen, cold, dry, and very binding, stops fluxes and the terms in women, and is admirable good in green wounds.  
Quercus folia. Oak-leaves, are much of the nature of the former, stay the whites in women: see the bark.  
Ranunculus. Hath got a sort of English names, Crowfoot, King Kob, Gold-cups, God-knobs, Butter-flowers, etc. they are of a notable hot quality, unfit to be taken inwardly, 〈◊〉 you bruise the roots and apply them to a Plague-sore, they are notable things to draw the venom to them, Also Apulieus saith, that if they be hanged about the neck of one that is lunatic, in the wane of the Moon, the Moon being in the 〈◊〉 degree of Taurus or Scorpio, it quickly rids him of his disease.  
Raparum folia. If they do not mean Turnep-leaves, I know not what they mean, Rapum is a Turnip, but surely 〈◊〉 is a word seldom used, If they do mean Turnep-leaves, when they are young and tender, they are held to provoke urine.  
Rosmarinum. Rosemary, hot and dry in the second degree, binding, stops fluxes, helps stuff in the head, the yellaw 
Serapio.  Jaundice, helps the memory, expels wind: See the 
Dioscorides.  Flowers.  
Rosa Solis. See the Water.  
Rosa alba, rubra, Damascena. White, red, and Damask-Roses, the white are held to be good for sore eyes, the red bind and comforts the heart, refresh the spirits, the Damask purge, all are cool in temperature.  
Rumex. Dock: all the ordinary sort of Docks are of a cool and drying substance, and therefore stops fluxes; the leaves are seldom used in physic.  
Rubus, Idaeus. Raspis, Raspberries, or Hindberries: I know no great virtue in the leaves.  
Ruta. Rue, or Herb-of-grace: hot and dry in the third degree, consumes the seed, and is an enemy to generation, helps difficulty of breathing, and inflammations of the lungs, pains in the side, inflammations of the yard & matrix, is naught for women wirh child: An hundred such things are quoted by Dioscorides. This I am sure of, no herb resisteth poison more. And some think Mithridates, that renowned King of Pontus, fortified his body against poison with no other medicine. It strengtheneth the heart exceedingly, and no herb better than this in Pestilential times.  
Ruta Muraria. See Adianthum.  
Sabina. Savin; hot and dry in the third degree, potently provokes the terms, expels both birth and afterbirth, they (boiled in oil and used in ointments) stay creeping ulcers, scour away spots, frekles, and sunburning from the face, the belly anointed with it kills worms in children.  
Salvia. Sage: hot and dry in the second or third degrees, binding, it stays abortion in such women as are subject to come before their times, it causeth fruitfulness, it is singular 
AEtius. Agrippa.  good for the brain, strengthens the senses and memory, helps spitting and vomiting of blood; outwardly, heat hot with a little vinegar and applied to the side, helps stitches and pains in the sides.  
Salix. Willow-leaves, are cold, dry, and binding, stop spitting of blood and fluxes, the boughs stuck about a chamber wonderfully cool the air and refresh such as have fevers, the leaves applied to the head help hot diseases there, and frenzies.  
Sampsucum. Margerum.  
Sanicula. Sanicle, hot and dry in the second degree, cleanseth wounds and ulcers.  
Saponariae. Sopewort, or Bruise wort, vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers, and is of notable use in the French-pox.  
Satureia. Savory, Winter-savory is hot and dry in the third degree, Summer-savory is not so hot, both of them expel wind gallantly, and that (they say) is the reason why they are boiled with Pease and Beans, and other such windy things.  
Saxifragia alba. White Saxifrage breaks wind, helps the colic and stone.  
Scabiosa. Scabious, hot and dry in the second degree, cleanseth the breast and lungs, helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty of breathing, provokes urine and cleanseth the bladder of filthy stuff, breaks Aposthumes, and cures Scabs and Itch.  
Scariola. An Italian name for Succory.  
Schoenanthus. Schaenanth, Squinanth, or Chamels-hay, hot and binding, Galen saith it causeth headache, believe him that list, Dioscorides saith it digests and opens the passages of the veins, surely it is as great an expeller of wind as is.  
Scordium. Water-Germander, hot and dry, cleanseth ulcers in the inward parts, it provokes urine and the terms, opens stops of the liver, spleen, reins, bladder, and matrix, it is a great counterpoison and easeth the breast orepressed with phlegm.  
Scrophularia. Fig-wort, so called of Scrophula the King's Evil, which it cures, they say by beingonly hung about the neck, if not, bruise it and apply it to the place it helps the piles or Hemorrhoids, and (they say) being hung about the neck preserves the body in health.  
〈◊〉, And all his sorts, see Barba Jovis.  
Senna. In this give me leave to stick close to Mesue, as an imparaleld Author: it heats in the second degree and dries in the first, cleanseth, purgeth and digesteth, it carries downwards both choler, phlegm, and melancholy, it cleanseth the brain, heart, liver, spleen, it cheers the senses, opens obstructions, takes away dulness of sight, preserves youth, helps deafness (if purging will help it) helps melancholy and madness, keeps back old age, resists resolution of the nerves 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  pains in the head, scabs, itch, falling sickness, the windiness of it is corrected with a little Ginger.  
Serpillum. Mother-of-Time, Wild Time, it is hot and dry in the third degree, it provokes the terms gallantly, as also 
AEtius.  helps the strangury or stoppage of urine, gripe in the 
Galen.  belly, ruptures, convulsions, inflammations in the liver, lethargy, and infirmities of the spleen.  
Sigillum Solomonis. Solomons-Seal: see the Root.  
Smyrnium. Alexander's of Crect.  
Solanum. Nightshade, very cold and dry, binding, it is somewhat dangerous given inwardly, unless by a skilful hand, outwardly it helps the shingles, St. Anthony's fire, and other hot inflammations.  
Soldanella. Bindweed, hot and dry in the Second degree, it opens obstructions of the liver, and purgeth watery humours, and is therefore very profitable in dropsies, it is very hurtful to the stomach, and therefore if taken inwardly it had need be well corrected with Cinnamon, Ginger, or Annisseeds etc. Yet the Germane Physicians affirm that it cures the dropsy being only bruised and applied to the navel and something lower, and then it needs not be taken inwardly at all.  
Sonchus, levis, Asper. Sowthistles smooth and rough, they are of a cold watery, yet binding quality, good for frenzies, 
Galen.  they increase milk in nurses, and cause the children which they nurse to have a good colour, help gnawings of the stomach coming of a hot cause, outwardly they help inflammations, and hot swellings, cool the heat of the fundament and privities.  
Sophia Chirurgorum. Flixweed, drying without any manif est heat or coldness, it is usually found about old ruinous buildings, it is so called because of its virtue in stopping fluxes. Paracelsus highly commends it, nay elevates it up to the skies for curing old wounds and fistulas; which though our modern Chyrurgians despise, yet if it were in the hands of a wise man, such as Paracelsus was, it may do the wonders he saith it will.  
Spinachia. spinach: I never read any physical virtues of it.  
Spina alba. See the Root.  
Spica. See Nardus.  
Staebe. Silver Knapweed: The virtues be the same with Scabious, and some think the Herbs too, though I am of another opinion.  
Staechas. French-Lavender, Cassidony, is a great counterpoison, opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, cleanseth the matrix and bladder, brings out corrupt humours, provokes urine. There is another Staechas mentioned here by the name Amaranthus, in English, Golden-flower, or Flowergentle; the flowers of which expel worms; being boiled, the water kills louse and nits.  
Succisa, Morsus Diaboli. Devilsbit, hot and dry in the second degree: inwardly taken, it easeth the fits of the mother and breaks wind, it takes away swellings in the mouth and slimy phlegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world for those cold swellings in the neck, which the vulgar call, the Almonds of the ears, than this herb bruised and applied to them.  
Suchaba, An Egyptian thorn, very hard if not impossible to come by here.  
And here the College make another racket about the several sorts of Comfrys; which I pass by with silence, having spoke to them before.  
Tanacetum. tansy: hot in the second degree, and dry in the third; the very smell of it stays abortion, or miscarriages in women; so it doth being bruised and applied to their navills, it provokes urine, and easeth pains in making water, and is a special herb against the gout.  
Taraxacon. Dandelion, or to write better French, Dentde-lion, for in plain English it is called Lions-tooth, it is a kind of Succory, and thither I refer you.  
Tamariscus. Tamaris, it hath a dry cleansing quality, and 
Galen, Dioscorides.  hath a notable virtue against the rickets and infirmities of the spleen, provokes the terms.  
Telephium. A kind of Orpine.  
Thlaspi. See Nasturtium.  
Thymbra. A Wild Savory.  
Thymum. Time; hot and dry in the third deghee, helps coughs, and shortness of breath, provokes the terms, brings away dead children and the afterbirth, purgeth phlegm, cleanseth the breast, lungs, reins, and matrix, helps the Sciatica, pains in the breast, expels wind in any part of the body, resisteth fearfulness and melancholy, continual pains in the head, and is profitable for such as have the Falling-sickness to smell to.  
Thymelaea. The Greek name for Spurg-Olive: 〈◊〉 being the Arabic name.  
Tithymalus, Esula etc. Spurge, hot and dry in the fourth degree, a dogged purge, better let alone then taken inwardly, hair anointed with the juice of it will fall off, it kills fish being mixed with any thing that they will eat, outwardly it cleanseth ulcers, takes away freckles, sunburning, and morphew from the face.  
Tormentilla. See the root.  
Trinitatis herba. Pansies, or Hearts-ease, they are cold and moist both herbs and flowers, excellent against inflammations of the breast or lungs, Convulsions, and Falling-sickness, also they are held to be good for the French-pox.  
Trifolium. Trefoil, dry in the third degree, and cold, the ordinary meadow trefoil, (for their word comprehends all sorts) cleanseth the guts of slimy humours that stick to them, being used either in drinks or Clysters, outwardly they take away inflammations, Pliny saith the leaves stand upright before a storm, which I have observed to be true oftener than once or twice, and that in a clear day, 24. hours before the storm came.  
Tussilago. Colts-foot, something cold and dry, and therefore good for inflammations, they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lungs, shortness of breath, etc.  
Valeriana. Valerian, or Setwal: see the Roots.  
Verbaseum. Thapsus Barbatus. Mullin, or Higtaper: It is something dry, and of a digesting, cleansing quality, stops fluxes, and the hemorrhods, it cures hoarses, the cough and such as are broken-winded; the leaves worn in the shoes provoke the terms, (especially in such virgins as never had them) but they must be worn next their feet: also they say that the herb being gathered when the Sun is in Virgo & the Moon in Aries, in their mutual Antistions, helps such of the falling sickness as do but carryit about them: worn under the feet it helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother.  
〈◊〉. Vervain: hot and dry, a great opener, cleanser, and healer, it helps the yellow-jaundice, defects in the reins and bladder, pains in the head if it be but bruised and hung about the neck, all diseases in the secret parts of men and women; made into an ointment it is a sovereign remedy for old headaches, called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as also frenzes; it clears the skin, and causeth a lovely colour.  
Veronica. See Betonica Pauli.  
Violaria. Violet-leaves: they are cool, ease pains in the head proceeding of heat, and frenzes, either inwardly taken, or outwardly applied, heat of the stomach, or inflammation of the lungs.  
〈◊〉 Vinisera. The Manured Vine: 
a Vines of different climates have different operations. I write of English Vines.  the leaves are binding, and cool withal; the burnt ashes of the sticks of a Vine, scour the teeth, and make them as white as snow; the leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heartburnings, vomitings, as also the longing of women with child.  
Vincitoxicum. Swallow-wort: A Pultis made with the leaves helps sorebrests, and also soreness ' of the matrix.  
Virga Pastoris; see Dipsacus.  
Virga auria: see Consolid.  
Vlmaria. See the root. Mead-sweet.  
Vmbilicus Veneris. Navil-wort: cold, dry, and binding, therefore helps all inflammations; they are very good for kib'd heels being bathed with it and a leaf laid over the sore.  
Vrtica. Nettles; an herb so well known, that you may find them by the feeling in the darkest night. They are something hot, not very hot, the juice stops bleeding, they provoke lust exceedingly, help difficulty of breathing, pleuresies, inflammations of the lungs, that troublsome cough which women call the Chincough; they exceedingly break the stone and provoke urine, and help such as cannot hold their necks upright.  
Vsnea. Moss: once before   

FLOWERS.  
COurteous Reader, being now passed ever the Roots, and Herbs, and arrived safely at the Flowers; I thought it best, and most advantageous for the public good, to abreviate the rest of the Simples, and only note such as may be easily gotten, or are familiarly known to the Commonality of this Land; the Curious may satisfy themselves with what hath been written, being the names of all, or almost all the Herbs, Plants, Roots, etc. used in the Dispensatory: In truth I am loath the curiosity of any, should make the Book swell to that bigness that it should be out of the command of a poor man's purse. So much for the Prologue: now to the purpose.  
borage, and bugloss flowers strengthen the heart and brain, and are profitable in fevers.  
Chamomel flowers, heat & assuage swellings, inflammations of the bowels, dissolve wind, are profitable given in clysters or drink to such as are troubled with the colic, or stone.  
Staechas, opens stops in the bowels, and strengthens the wholebody.  
Saffron powerfully concocts, and sends out whatever humour ossends the body, drives back inflammations, being applied outwardly, increaseth lust, provokes urine.  
Clovegilliflowers resist the pestilence, strengthen the heart, liver, and stomach, and provoke lust.  
Schoenanth (which I think I touched slightly amongst the herbs) provokes urine potently, provokes the terms, breaks wind, helps such as spit or vomit blood, easeth pains of the stomach, reins, and spleen, helps dropsies, convulsions, and inflammations of the womb.  
Lavender-flowers resist all cold afflictions of the brain, convulsions, falling-sickness, they strengthen cold stomaches, and open obstructions of the liver, they provoke urine and the terms, bring forth the birth and afterbirth.  
Hops opens stops of the bowels, and for that cause Beer is better than Ale.  
Bawm-flowers cheer the heart and vital spirits, strengthen the stomach.  
Rosemary-flowers strengthen the brain exceedingly, and resist madness, clear the sight.  
Stock-Gilliflowers, or Wall-flowers (as some call them) help inflammations of the womb, provoke the terms, and help ulcers of the mouth.  
Honeysuckles, provoke urine, ease the pains of the spleen, and such as can hardly fetch their breath.  
Mallows help Coughs.  
Red-roses, cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restore such as are in consumptions, strengthen: there are so many compositions of them which makes me the briefer in the simples.  
Violets (to wit the blue ones, for I know little or no use of the white in physic) cool and moisten, provoke sleep, loosen the belly, resist fevers, help inflammations, correct the heat of choler, ease pains in the head, help the roughness of the windpipe, diseases in the throat, inflammations in the breast, and sides, pluresies, open stops of the liver, and help the yellow-Jaundice.  
Cichory (or succory as the vulgar call it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive.  
Water-lillies ease pains of the head coming of Choler and heat, provoke sleep, cool inflammations, and the heat in fevers.  
Pomegranate-flowers, dry and bind, stop fluxes, and the terms in women.  
Cowslips, strengthen the brain, senses, and memory, exceedingly, resist all diseases there, as convulsions, falling sickness, palsies etc.  
Centaury, purges choler and gross humours, helps the yellow jaundice, opens obstructions of the liver, helps pains of the spleen, provokes the terms, brings out the birth and afterbirth.  
Elder-flowers, help dropsies, cleanse the blood, clear the skin, open stops of the liver and spleen, and diseases arising therefrom.  
Bean-flowers, clear the skin, stop humours flowing into the eyes.  
Peach-tree-flowers, purge choler gently.  
Broom-flowers, purge water, and are good in dropsies.  
The temperature of all these differ either very little or not at all from the herbs, and now I think I have done full out as well as the College, that named three times as many and gave the virtues of none.   

FRVITS AND THEIR BUDS.  
GREEN Figs, are held to be of ill juice, but the best is we are not much troubled with them in England; dry figs help coughs: cleanse the breast, and help infirmities of the lungs, shortness of wind, they lose the belly, purge the reins, help inslamations of the liver and spleen; outwardly they dissolves swellings, some say the continual eating of them makes men lousy.  
Pine-Nuts restore such as are in Consumptions, amend the failings of the lungs, concoct fiegm, and yet are naught for such as are troubled with the headache.  
Dates, are binding, stop eating ulcers being applied to them, they are very good for weak stomaches, for they soon digest, and breed good nourishment, they help infirmities of the reins, bladder, and womb.  
Sebestens, cool choler, violent heat of the stomach, help roughness of the tongue and windpipe, cool the reins and bladder.  
Raisins of the Sun, help infirmities of the breast and liver, restore Consumptions, gently cleanse and move to stool  
Walnuts, kill worms, resist the pestilence, (I mean the green ones, not the dry.)  
Capers, eaten before meals, provoke hunger.  
Nutmegs strengthen the brain, stomach, and liver, provoke urine, ease the pains of the spleen, stop looseness, ease pains of the head, and pains in the joints, ad strength to the body, take away weakness coming of cold, and cause a sweet breath.  
Cloves help digestion, stop looseness, provoke lust, and quicken the sight.  
Pepper, binds, expels wind, helps the colic, quickens digestion oppressed with cold, heats the stomach, (for all that old women say, 'tis cold in the stomach.)  
Quinces, see the Compositions.  
Pears are grateful to the stomach, drying, and therefore help fluxes.  
All Plums that are sharp or sour, are binding, the sweet are loosening.  
Cucumbers, or (if you will) Cucumbers, cool the stomach, and are good against ulcers in the bladder.  
Gauls, are exceeding binding, help ulcers in the mouth, wasting of the gums, easeth the pains of the teeth, helps the falling out of the womb & fundament, makes the hair black.  
Pompions are a cold and moist fruit, of small nourishment, they provoke urine; outwardly applied, the flesh of them help inflammations and burnings, being applied to the forehead they help inflammations of the eyes.  
Melones, called in London Muskmelons, have few other virtues.  
Apricocks are very grateful to the stomach, and dry up the humours thereof, Peaches are held to do the like.  
Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third degree, they expel wind, and cleanse the stomach of tough and viscus humours, they ease the pains of the spleen, and help cold diseases of the womb, they cleanse the head of phlegm and strengthen the brain, they heat the stomach and provoke lust.  
Bitter Almonds, are hot in the first degree and dry in the second, they cleanse and cut thick humours, cleanse the lungus; and eaten every morning they are held to preserve from drunkenness.  
Bay-berries, heat, expel wind, mitigate pain, are excellent for cold infirmities of the womb, and dropsies.  
Cherries, are of different qualities according to their different taste, the sweet are quickest of digestion, but the sour are most pleasing to a hot stomach, and procure appetite to ones meat.  
Medlars, are strengthening to the stomach, binding and the green are more binding than the rotten, and the dry than the green.  
Olives, cool and bind.  
English-currances, cool the stomach, and are profitable in acute fevers, they quench thirst, resist vomiting, cool the heat of choler, provoke appetite, and are good for hot complexions.  
Services, (or as we in Sussex call them) Checkers, are of the nature of Medlars, but something weaker in operation.  
Barberries, quence thirst, cool the heat of choler, resist the pestilence stay vomiting and fluxes, stop the terms, kill worms, help spitting of blood, fasten the teeth, and stengthen the gums.  
Strawberries, cool the stomach, liver, and blood; but are very hurtful for such as have agues.  
Winter-Cherries, potently provoke urine, and break the stone.  
Cassia-fistula, is temperate in quality, gently purgeth choler and phlegm, clarrifies the blood, resists fevers, cleanseth the breast and lungs, it cools the reins, and thereby resisteth the breeding of the stone, it provokes urine, and therefore is exceeding good for the running of the reins in men, and the the whites in women.  
All the sorts of Myrobalans, purge the stomach, the Indian Myrobalans are held to purge melancholy most especially, the other phlegm; yet take heed you use them not in stops of the bowels: they are cold anddry, they all strengthen the heart, brain, and sinews, strengthens the stomach, relieve the senses, take away tremble and heart-qualms.  
Prunes, are cooling and loosening.  
Tamarinds, are cold and dry in the second degree, they purge choler, cool the blood, stay vomiting, help the yellow-jaundice, quench thirst, cool hot stomaches, and hot livers.   

SEEDS OR GRAINS.  
COriander seed heat and dry, expels wind, but is hurtful for the head, and send up unwholesome vapours to the brain, dangerous for mad people, therefore let them be prepared as you shall be taught towards the latter end of the Book.  
Fenugreek-seeds are of a softening discussing nature, they cease inflammations be they internal or external, bruised and mixed with vinegar they ease the pains of the spleen, being applied to the sides, help hardness and swellings of the matrix, being boiled, the decoction helps scabby heads.  
Linseed hath the same virtues with Fenugreek.  
Gromwel seed provokes urine, helps the colic, breaks the 〈◊〉, and exels wind.  
Lupins easeth the pains of the spleen, kills worms and casts them out; outwardly, they cleanse filthy ulcers and gangrenes, help scabs, itch, and inflammations.  
Dil-seed increaseth milk in nurses, expels wind, stays vomitings, provokes urine; yet it dulls the sight, and is an enemy to generation.  
Smalledg seed, provokes urine and the terms, expels wind, resists poison, and easeth inward pains, it opens stops in any part of the body, yet it is hurtful for such as have the falling-sickness, and for women with child.  
Rocket-seed, provokes urine, stirs up lust, increaseth seed, kills worms, easeth the pains of the spleen.  
Basil-seed, if we may believe Dioscorides and Crescentius, cheers the heart, and strengthens a moist stomach, drives away melancholy, and provoketh urine.  
Nettle-seed provokes lust, opens stoppages of the womb, helps inflammations of the sides and lungs, purgeth the breast.  
The seeds of Ammi or Bishops-weed, heat and dry, help difficulty of urine, and the pains of the colic, the bitings of venomous beasts, they provoke the terms, and purge the womb.  
Annis-seeds, heat and dry, ease pain, expel wind, cause a sweet breath, help the dropsy, relist poison, breed milk, and slop the whites in women, provoke lust, and ease the headache.  
Cardamons, heat, kill worms, cleanse the reins, and provoke urine.  
Fennel-seeds break wind, provoke urine, and the terms, increaseth milk in nurses.  
Commin-seeds, heat, bind and dry, stop blood, expel wind, ease pain, help the bitings of venomous beasts: outwardly applied (viz. in plasters) they are of a discussing nature.  
Carret Seeds are windy, provoke lust exceedingly and increase seed, provoke urine and the terms, cause speedy delivery to women in travail, and bring away the after birth.  
Nigella seeds boiled in oil and the forehead anointed with it, ease pains in the head, taketh away leprosy, itch, scurff, and helps scald heads; Inwardly taken they expel worms, they provoke urine & the terms, help difficulty of breathing: the smoke of them being burned drives away Serpents and venomous beasts.  
Stavesager, kills louse in the head, I hold it not fitting to be given inwardly.  
The Seeds of Watercreases heat, yet trouble the stomach and belly, ease the pains of the spleen, are very dangerous for women with child, yet they provoke lust, outwardly applied, they help leprosies, scald heads, and the falling off of hair, as also Carbuncles, and cold ulcers in the joints,  
Mustardseed, heats, extenuates, and draws, it draws moisture from the brain, the head being shaved and anointed with mustard is a good remedy for the lethargy, it helps filthy ulcers and hard swellings in the mouth, it helps old aches coming of cold.  
French Barley is cooling, nourishing, and breeds milk.  
Sorrel Seeds potently resists poison, helps fluxes, and such stomaches as loathe their meat.  
Succory Seed, cools the heat of the blood, extinguisheth lust, open stops of the liver and bowels, it allays the heat of the body and produceth a good colour, it strengthens the stomach, liver, and reins.  
Poppy Seeds, ease pain, provoke sleep.  
Mallow Seeds ease pains in the bladder.  
Cich-pease, are windy, provoke lust, increase milk in nurses, provoke the terms; outwardly they help scabs, itch, inflammations of the stones, ulcers, &c,  
White-Saxifrage Seeds, provoke urine, expel wind, and break the stone.  
Rue Seeds, help such as cannot hold their water.  
Lettuce Seed cool the blood restrains lust.  
Also Gourds, Citruls, Cucumbers, Melons, Purslain, and Endive seeds, cool the blood, as also the stomach, spleen, and reins, and allay the heat of fevers.  
Wormseed expels wind, kills worms.  
Ashtree keys, ease pains in the sides, help the dropsy, relieve men weary with labour, provoke lust, and make the body lean.  
Peony Seeds, help the Ephialtes or the disease the vulgar call the Mare, as also the fits of the mother, and other such like infirmities of the womb, stop the terms, and help convulsions.  
Broom Seed, potently, provokes urine breaks the stone.  
Citron Seeds strengthen the heart, cheer the vital spirit, resist pestilence and poison.   

TEARS, LIQVORS, AND ROZINS  
Laudanum, is of a heating mollifying nature, it opens the mouths of the veins, stays the hair from falling off, helps pains in the ears, and hardness of the womb.  
Asa foetida is commonly used to allay the fits of the mother by smelling to it, they say inwardly taken it provokes lust, and expels wind.  
Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a good perfume.  
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds exceedingly.  
Aloes, purgeth Choler and phlegm, and with such del beration that it is often given to withstand the violence of other purges, it preserves the senses and betters the apprehension, it strengthens the liver, and helps the yellow Jaundice, yet it is naught for such as are troubled with the Hemorrhoids or have agues.  
Manna. is temperately hot, of a mighty dilative quality, cleanseth Chollergently, also it cleanseth the throat and stomach.  
Scamony or Diagridium, call it by which name you please, is a desperate purge, hurtful to the body, by reason of its heat, windiness, corroding, or gnawing, and violence of working, therefore let it be well prepared according to the directions in the latter end of the book, and administered by a skilful hand.  
Opopanax, is of a heating, mollifying, digesting quality.  
Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for fractures of the skull, as also in wounds, and therefore is put in plasters for that end.  
Tragacanthum, commonly, called Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, hoarseness, and distillations upon the lungs.  
Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hard swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, hardness of the sinews.  
Galbanum, hot, dry, discussing, applied to the womb, it hastens both birth and afterbirth, applied to the navel it stays the strangling of the womb, commonly called the fits of the mother, helps pains in the sides, and difficulty of breathing, being appled to it, and the smell of it helps the vertigo or dissines in the head.  
Myrrh, heats, and dries, opens and softens the womb, provokes the birth and afterbirth; inwardly taken, it helps old coughs, and hoarseness, pains in the sides, kills worms and helps a stinking breath, helps the wastings of the gums, fastens the teeth, outwardly it helps wounds and fills up ulcers with flesh.  
Mastich; strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, it fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums, being chewed in the mouth.  
Frankincense and Olibanum, heat and bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stops bleeding, but is extreme bad for mad people.  
Turpentine purgeth, cleanseth the reins, helps the running of them.  
Styrax calamitis helps coughs and distillations upon the lungs, hoarseness, want of voice, hardness of the womb, but is bad for headaches.  
Amoniacum, applied to the side, helps the hardness and pains of the spleen.  
Camphire, easeth pains of the head coming of heat, takes away inflammations and cools any place it is applied too.   

IVYCES.  
THAT all Juices have the same virtues with the herbs or fruits whereof they are made, I suppose few or none will deny, therefore I shall only name a few of them and that briefly.  
Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree, strengthens the lungs, takes away the roughness of the throat, succours the reins and bladder.  
The juice of Citrons cools the blood, strengthens the heart mitigates the violent heat of fevers.  
The juice of Lemmons works the same effect but not so powerfully as Authors say.  
Juice of liquoris strengthens the lungs, helps coughs and colds.  
I am loath to trouble the reader with Tautology, therefore I pass to—   

THINGS BRED OF PLANTS  
OF these, the College names but few, and all of those few have been treated of before, only two excepted, the the first of which is.—  
Agaricus, Agrick, it purgeth phlegm, choler, and melancholy from the brain, nerves, muscles, marrow (or more properly brain) of the back, it cleanseth the breast, lungs, liver, stomach, spleen, reins, womb, joints, it provokes urine and the terms, kills worms, helps pains in the joints, and causeth a good colour,  
Lastly, Viscus Quercinus, Or Misleto of the Oak, helps the falling sickness, being either taken inwardly, or hung about one's neck.   

LIVING-CREATURES  
MIllepedes (so called from the multitude of their feet, though it cannot be supposed they have a thousand) Sows, Hoglice, in Sussex they call them woodlice, being bruised and mixed with wine they provoke urine, help the yellow Jaundice, outwardly being boiled in oil, help pains in the ears a drop being put into them.  
The flesh of 
a I 〈◊〉 our English Adder to be the true Viper, though happily not so venomous as they are in hotter Countries.  Vipers being eaten, clear the fight, help the vices of the nerves, resist poison exceedingly, neither is there any better remedy under the Sun for their bitings than the head of the viper that bit you, bruised and applied to the place, and the flesh eaten, neither any comparable to the stinging of bees and wasps etc. than the same which stung you, bruised and applied to the place.  
Land Scorpions cure their own stingings, by the same means, the ashes of them (being burnt) potently provokes urine and breaks the stone.  
Earthworms, (the preparation of which you may find towards the latter end of the book) are an admirable remedy for cut nerves being applied to the place, they provoke urine, see the oil of them, only let me not forget one notable thing quoted by Mizaldus, which is, that the powder of them put into a hollow tooth, makes it drop out.  
Eels being put into wine or beer, and suffered to die in it, he that drinks it, will never endure that sort of liquor again.  
Oytlers applied alive to a pestilential swelling, draw all the venom to them.  
Crabfish, burnt to ashes, and a drachm of it taken every morning helps the biting of mad-dogs, and all other venomous beasts.  
Swallows being eaten clear the sight, the ashes of them (being burnt) eaten preserves from drunkenness, helps sore throats being applied to them, and inflammations.  
Grasshoppers being eaten ease the Colic and pains in the bladder.  
Hedg-Sparrows, being kept in salt, or dried, and eaten raw, are an admirable remedy for the stone.  
Young pigeons being eaten, help pains in the reins, and the disease called Tenasmus.   

PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES AND EXCREMENTS.  
THE brain of Sparrows being eaten provoke lust exceedingly.  
The brain of an Hare being roasted helps trembling, it makes children breed teeth easily, their gums being rubbed with it, it also helps scald heads and falling off of hair the head being anointed with it.  
The head of a coal black Cat being burnt to ashes in a new pot, and some of the ashes blown into the eye every day, helps such as have a skin growing over their sight, if there happen an inflammation, moisten an Oak leaf in water and lay over the eye, Mizaldus saith he hath (by this one only medicine) cured such as have been blind a whole year.  
The head of a young 
* Some countries call them Gleads, and others Puttoks.  Kite, being burned to ashes and the quantity of a drachm of it taken every morning, in a little water, is an admirable remedy for the gout.  
Crabs-eyes breaks the stone, and open stops of the bowels.  
The lungs of a Fox well dried (but not burned) is an admirable strengthner to the lungucs: See the Lohoch of fox lungs.  
The liver of a Duck stops fluxes and strengthens the liver exceedingly.  
The liver of a Frog, being dried and eaten, helps quartane Agues, or as the vulgar call them, third day agues.  
Cock's stones nourish mightily, and refresh and restore such bodies as have been wasted by long sickness, they are admirable good in Hectic fevers, and 〈◊〉 Gallen supposed incurable) Marasmus, which is a consumption attending upon a Hectic fever, they increase seed and help such as are weak in the sports of Venus.  
Castorium resists poison, the bitings of venomous beasts, it provokes the terms, and brings forth both birth and afterbirth, it expels wind, easeth pains and aches, convulsions, sigh, lethargies, the smell of it allays the fits of the mother, inwardly given, it helps tremble, falling-sickness, and other such ill effects of the brain and nerves  
The yard of a Stag helps fluxes, the bitings of venomous beasts, provokes urine, and stirs up lust exceedingly.  
A Sheep's or Goat's bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continual pissing.  
Unicorns horn, resists poison and the pestilence, provokes urine, restores lost strength, brings forth both birth and afterbirth.  
Ivory, or Elephant's tooth, binds, stops the whites in women, it strengthens the heart and stomach, helps the yellow-Jaundice, and makes women fruitful.  
The virtues of Hartshorn, are the same with Unicorns horn.  
The bone that is found in the heart of a Stag is as sovereign a Cordial, and as great a strengthner to the heart as any is, being beaten into powder and taken inwardly, also it resists Pestilences and Poison.  
The Skull of a man that was never buried, being beaten to powder and given inwardly, the quantity of a drachm at a time, in bettony water, helps palsyes and falling sickness.  
That small Triangular bone in the Skull of a man, Called Ostriquetrum, so absolutely cures the falling-sickness that it will never come again saith Paracelsus.  
Those small bones which are found in the fore feet of a Hare being beaten into powder and drunk in wine, powerfully provoke urine.  
A Ring made of an Elks claw, being worn helps the cramp.  
The fat of a man is exceeding good to anoint such limbs as fall away in flesh.  
Goose grease and Capon's grease are both softening, helps gnawing sores, and stifness of the womb.  
I am of opinion that the suet of a Goat, mixed with a little Saffron is as excellent an ointment for the gout, especially the gout in the knees as any is.  
Bear's grease stays the falling off of the hair.  
Fox grease helps pains in the ears.  
Elks Claws or hoofs are a Sovereign remedy for the falling sickness, though it be but worn in a ring, much more being taken inwardly, but (saith Mizaldus) it must be th' choof of the right foot behind.  
Milk is an extreme windy meat, therefore I am of the opinion of Dioscoriaes', viz, that it is not profitable in headaches, yet this is for certain, that it is an admirable remedy for inward ulcers in any part of the body, or any corrosions or excoriations, pains in the reins and bladder, but it is very bad in diseases in the liver, spleen, the falling sickness, vertigo, or dissines in the head, fevers, and headaches, Goat's milk is held to be better than Cows for hectic fevers, Phtisicks, and consumptions, and so is Asses also.  
Whey, attenuateth and cleanseth both choler and melancholy, wonderfully helps melancholy and madness coming of it, it opens stops of the bowels, helps such as have the dropsy, and are troubled with the stops of the spleen, rickets, and hypocondriac melancholy: for such diseases you may make up your physic with Whey. Outwardly it cleanseth the skin of such deformities as come through choler or melancholy, as scabs, itch, morphew, leprosy, etc.  
Honey, is of a gallant cleansing quality, exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers, in what part of the body soever, it opens the veins, cleanseth the reins and bladder: he that would have more of the virtues of it, let him read Butler his Book of Bees, a gallant experimental work. I know no vices belonging to it, but only it is soon converted into choler.  
Wax, softens, heats, and meanly fills sores with flesh, it suffers not the milk to curdle in women's breasts; inwardly it is given (ten grains at a time) against bloody-fluxes.  
Raw-Silk, heats and dries, cheers the heart, drives away sadness, comforts all the spirits, both Natural, Vital, and Animal.  
As for the virtues of Excrements, for some reasons (best known to myself) I shall be silent in.   

BELONGING TO THE SEA  
SPerma-Caeti, is well applied outwardly to eating-ulcers, the marks which the small pocks leave behind them, it clears the sight, provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles the stomach and belly, helps bruises, and fretching of the nerves, and thereforc is good for women newly delivered.  
Ambergreese, heats and dries, strengthens the brain and nerves exceedingly, if the infirmity of them come of cold, resists pestilence.  
Sea-sand, a man that hath the dropsy being set up to the middle in it, it draws out all the water.  
Red Coral is cold dry and binding, stops the immoderate flowing of the terms, bloody fluxes, the running of the reins, and the whites in women, helps such as spit and piss blood, helps witchcraft being carried about one, it is an approved remedy for the falling-sickness, Also if ten grains of red Coral be given to a child in a little breast-milk so soon as it is born before it take any other food, it will never have the falling-sickness nor convulsions.  
Pearls are a wonderful strengthener to the heart, increase milk in nurses and amend it being naught, they restore such as are in consumptions, both they and red Correl preserve the body in health, and resist fevers.  
Amber (viz, yellow Amber) heats and dries, therefore prevails against moist diseases of the head, it helps violent coughs helps consumptions of the lungs, spitting of blood, the whites in women, it helps such women as are out of measure unwealdy in their going with child, it stops bleeding at the nose, helps difficulty of urine  
The froth of the Sea, it is hot and dry, helps itch, scabs, leprosy, scald heads etc. it cleanseth the skin, helps difficulty of urine, makes the teeth white, being rubbed with it, the head being washed with it, it helps baldness, and trimly decks the head with hairs.   

METALS, MINERALS AND STONES.  
GOLD is temperate in quality, it wonderfully strengthens the heart and vital spirits, which one perceiving very wittily inserted in these verses.  

For Gold is Cordial; and that's the reason,  
Your raking Misers live so long a season.   
However this is certain, in Cordials, it resists melancholy, faintings, swoon, fevers, falling-sickness, 
* what those be, see the directions at the beginning.  and all such like infirmities incident, either to the vital or animal spirit.  
Alum, heats, binds, and purgeth, scours filthy ulcers, and fastens loose teeth.  
Brimstone, or flower of Brimstone, which is brimstone refined, and the better for Physical uses, helps coughs and rotten phlegm, outwardly in ointments it takes away leprosies, scabs, and itch, inwardly it helps the yellow Jaundice, as also worms in the belly especially being mixed with a little Saltpetre, it helps lethargies being snuffed up into the nose, the truth is I shall speak more of this, and many other Simples which I mention not here when I come to the Chemical Oils of them.  
Litharge, both of Gold and silver, binds, and dries much, fills up ulcers with flesh, and heals them.  
Led, is of a cold dry earthly quality, of an healing nature,, applied to the place it helps any inflammation, and dries up humours,  
Pompholix, cools, dries, and binds.  
(
* the stone, not the herb. ) Jacynth, strengthens the heart being either beaten into powder and taken inwardly, or only worn in a ring, Cardanus saith it increaseth riches and wisdom.  
Saphire, resisteth Necromantic apparitions, and by a certain divine gift, it quickens the senses, helps such as are bitten by venomous beasts, ulcers in the guts, Galen, Dioscorides, Garcias, and Cardanus are my Authors.  
Emerald, called a chaste stone, because it resisteth lust, and will break (as Cardanus saith) if one hath it abòut him when he deflowrs a virgin, moreover being worn in a ring, it helps or at least mitigates the falling-sickness, and vertigo, it strengthens the memory and stops the unruly passions of men, it 
Garcias.  takes away vain and foolish fears, as of Devils, Hobgoblins etc. it takes away folly, anger etc. and causeth good conditions, and if it do so being worn about one, reason will tell him that being beaten into powder and taken inwardly, it will do it much more.  
Ruby or (Carbuncle, if there be such a stone) restrains lust, resists 
Cardanus.  pestilence, takes away idle and foolish thoughts, makes men cheerful.  
Granate, strengthens the heart but hurts the brain, causeth 
Cardanus.  anger, takes away sleep.  
Diamond, is reported to make him that bears it infortunate, It makes men undaunted (I suppose because it is a stone of the nature of Mars) it makes men more secure or fearless 
Cardanus.  than careful, which it doth by overpowering the spirits, 
Garcias.  as the Sun though it be light itself, yet it darkens the sight in beholding its body.  
Amethyst, being worn makes men sober and stayed, keeps them from drunkenness, and too much sleep, it quickens the 
Cardanus.  wit, is profitable in hunt, and fightings, and repels vapours from the head.  
Bezoar, is a notable restorer of nature, a great cordial, no way hurtful nor dangerous, is admirable good in fevers, pestilences, and consumptions, viz. taken inwardly, for this stone is not used to be worn as a Jewel, the powder of it being put upon wounds made by venomous beasts, draws out the poison.  
Topas, (If Epiphanius spoke truth) if you put it into boiling water, it doth so cool it that you may presently put your hands into it without harm, if so, than it cools inflammations of the body by touching of them.  
Toadstone, being applied to the place helps the bitings of venomous 
Lemnius.  beasts, and quickly draws all the poison to it, it is known to be a true one by this, hold it near to any toad, and she will make proffer to take it away from you, if it be right, else not.  
There is a stone of the bigness of a bean found in the gizzard of an old Cock, which makes him that bears it, beloved 
Lemnius.  constant, and bold, valiant in fight, beloved by women, potent in the sports of Venus.  
Nephriticus lapis, helps pains in the stomach, and is of great force in breaking and bringing away the stone and gravel, concerning the powerful operation of which I shall only qnote you one story of many, out of Monardus, a Physician of note. A certain noble man (quoth he) very well known to me, by only bearing this stone tied to his arm, voided such a deal of gravel, that he feared the quantity would do him hurt, by avoiding so much of it, wherefore he laid it from him, and then he avoided no more gravel; but afterwards being again troubled with the stone, he beware it as before, and presently the pain eased, and he avoided gravel as before, and was never troubled with the pain of the stone so long as he beware it.  
Jasper, being worn stops bleeding, easeth the labour of women, 
Mathiolus.  stops lust, resists fevers and dropsies.  
AEtites, or the stone with child, because being hollow in 
Pliny.  the middle, it contains another little stone within it, it is 
Dioscorides.  found in an Eagles nest, and in many other places, this stone being bound to the left arm of women with child, stays their miscarriage or abortion, but when the time of their labour comes, remove it from their arm, and bind it to the inside of their thigh, and it brings forth the child, and that (almost) without any pain at all.  
Young swallows of the first brood if you cut them up between the time they were hatched, and the next full moon, you shall find two stones in their ventricle, one reddish, the other blackish, these being hung about the neck in a piece of 
Albersus.  stag's leather, help the falling-sickensse, and fevers. The truth is, I have found the reddish one myself without any regard to the lunation, but never tried the virtues of it.  
Lapis Lazuli, purgeth melancholy being taken inwardly, 
the Florentine Physicians.  outward worn as a Jewel, it makes men cheerful fortunate and 
Dioscorides.  rich.  
And thus I end the stones, the virtues of which if any think 
Cardanus.  incredible, I answer, 1. I quoted the Authors where I had them, 2. I know nothing to the contrary but why it may be as possible as the sound of a trumpet is to incite a man to valour, or of a fiddle to dancing, and if I have added a few Simples which the College left out, I hope my fault is not much, or at least wise, venial.   

A CONCLUSION to the Catalogue of SIMPLES.  
THUS Courteous Reader have I led thee by the band through the Catalogue of Simples contained in this Dispensatory: For what intent the College quoted them, I cannot tell; considering they quoted neither English names nor Virtues; and the Latin names (most part of them) may be found here and there throughout the Dispensatory: It is true, I willingly omitted the virtues of many of them, partly because I would not have the Book too big, partly because they are not easily gotten, and many of the operations I buried in silence for fear knaves should put them in practice to do mischief: Remembering a speech once in a Sermon of Bishop latimer's, I could (saith he) reprove other sins from this text, but I will not; for fear you knowing what they be, should practise them. Thus I send this Treatise of Simples into the merciless world, being not careful of the Slanders, or Envy of traducing tongues, or brains of ill Commonwealth's men; my own Conscience bearing me witness that I sincerely aimed at the Public good of my Country in it; and to all ingenious people shall never cease to remain theirs whilst my own,  
NICH. CULPEPER.    

COMPOUNDS CONTAINED IN THE DISPENSATORY  

A PREFACE.  
I Shall desire only to give the Reader notice:  
1. That I left out all the Simple distilled waters, quoted by the College; many of which were ridiculous, the simples being not to be obtained green in this Land: And sure none in Bedlam are so mad as to go about to distil simple water out of dry things.  
2. If any desire to know the virtues of distilled waters, let them repair to the Herbs themselves, part of the virtues of which the Waters have, though (I am of opinion) not so much as people think they have.  
3. The best way (that I know) to distil Simple Waters, is, To bruise the Herbs or Flowers, of what you would distil, and having pressed out the juice, distil it in a Glass-stil in sand; and so will the Water be better by odds than if distilled in a Peuter-stil as usually they do.  
4. Only and barely the Receipts themselves were quoted by the College; the Virtues of them, as also the Marginal Notes, and whatsoever sentences are marked with a capital A. are Additions. The College when they made this Dispensatory, never intending their Country so much good as to quote the Virtues.   


AN INTERPRETATION OF CERTAIN COMMON NAMES.  The five Cordial Flowers. The five Capillary Herbs. Of Roses, Violets, borage, bugloss, Rosemary, or Bawm-flowers. The four sorts of Maidenhair, Cetrach. The five Emollient Herbs. The four Pluretical Waters. Marshmallows, Mallows, Beets or Brank-Ursine, Mercury, Violets, or Pellitory of the wall. Of our Ladies-Thistle, Dandelion, Carduus-Benedictus, Scabios. The four greater hot Seeds. Common hot flowers. Of Annis, Fennel, Caraway, Commin. Of Chamomel, Meliot, Orris The four lesser hot Seeds. Three stomach Oils. Of Bishops-weed, Amomum, Smallage, Carrots. Of Wormwood, Quinces, Mastic. The four greater cold Seeds. Four hot Ointments. Of Gourds, Cittuls, Cucumbers, Melons. Of Agrippa, Althaea, Aregon, Martiatum. The four lesser cold Seeds. Four cold Ointments. Of Endive, Succory, Lettuce, Purslain. Album Camphoratum, Populion, Refrigerans Galeni, Rosatum. The five greater opening Roots. Four Ointments fit for Chyrurgians. Of Smallage, Asparagus, Fennel, Parsly, Bruscus. Basilicon, to digest. The two Roots. Viride Apostolorum, to cleanse. Of Fennel, Parsly. Aurium, to breed flesh. The five lesser opening Roots. Album, to skin. Of Grass, Eringo, Capers, Restharrow, Madir. Precious Fragments.  Of Saphire, Granate, Emerald, Jacynth, Sardine, Ruby, Pearls, Amethyst.   

COMPOUND WATERS.  

Wormwood Water, the lesser Composition.  
TAKE of dried 
(a) take common wormwood, but you may use which you will, for their prescript gives you latitude enough.  Wormwood two pound, Annis seeds bruised half a pound, infuse them in six 
(b) congius among the Romans contained about five pints and an half: but our Phusitians use the word for 6. sextaries: the meaning of which you shall find in the beginning of this book.  congees of 
(c) A strongwater-stiller will tell you what it is.  small wines for 24. hours, then draw out the spirit with an Alembick, adding to the distillation so much Sugar as is sufficient.  
After the same manner is drawn Water of Angellica Roots, Annis-seed Water, Orrange pill Water, Lemmon-pill Water, Bawm Water, Mint Water, Rosemary Water, Sage Water, etc.  
A. If you desire the virtues of these waters see the virtues of the herbs and pills etc. and then your reason will tell you the waters have the same operations, and may happily produce a better effect upon cold stomaches.   

Wormwood Water the greater Composition.  
Take of Roman and common Wormwood, of each a pound, Sage, Mints, Bawm, of each two handfuls, Galanga, Ginger, Aromarical reed, Alicampane roots, of each three drachms, Liquoris, an ounce, Raisins of the Sun three ounces, Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds of each six drachms, Cinnamon, Cloves, Natmegs, of each two drachms, Cardamons, Cubebs, of each one drachm, Let the things be cut that are to be cut, and the things bruised that are to be bruised, all of them infused in 20. pints of Spanish wines, for the space of 24. hours, and then distilled in an Alembick according to 〈◊〉, and sweetened with Sugar.  
A. This water is excellent good for cold stomaches, & (taken with discretion) helps digestion in such in whom it is weak, it kills worms in the belly, easeth pains in the teeth, and given in convenient mixtures, is profitable in fevers.   

Angelica Water the greater Composition.  
Take of 
(a) to wit, The leaves.  Angelica two pounds, Annis-seed half a pound, Coriander & Caraways of each four ounces, Zedoary bruised, three ounces, infuse them 24. hours in six congees of small wines, then draw out the spirit, and sweeten it with sugar.  
A. It comforts the heart, cherisheth the vital spirits, resisteth 
(a) if there be such a thing.  the Pestilence and Infection.   

Langius his Bezoar Water.  
Take of 
(a) Sullendine commonly called by the vulgar.  Chelondine with the roots, three handfuls and an half, Rue a handful, Scordium two handfuls, Dittany of Crect, Carduus Benedictus of each one handful and an half, Zedoary and Angelica roots of each three drachms, Citron and Lemon pills of each two drachms and an half, Clovegilliflowers, Roses of each two drachms, Cinnamon, Cloves of each five drachms and an half, Venice treacle three ounces, Mithridate an ounce and an half, Camphire two scruples, Troches of Vipers, Mace of each a drachm and an half, Wood of Aloes two scruples, Yellow sanders a drachm and an half, Conserves of Clovegilliflowers two ounces, Carduus seeds an ounce, Powder of Electuary 
(b) see the way to make it, which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to.  Liberantis five scruples, Filings of Unicorns-horn, or Heart's horn a drachm and an half: Let these Ingredients (being cut and bruised) be infused for three days in the spirit of Wine and Malaga Wine, of each three pound, then styled in a Glasse-Stil in 
(c) what that is, see the directions in the beginning of the book.  Balneo Mariae according to art.  
After it is half stilled, that which remains in the Still may be strained through a linen cloth, and by evaporation reduced to the thickness of Honey, and called by the name of Bezoartick Extraction.  
After the same manner may Extractions be made of almost all Compound Waters.  
A. Fxtracts have the same virtues with the waters they are made from, only the different form is to please the acquaint palates of such whose fancy loathes any one particular form.  
A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart, Arteries and spirit vital. It provoketh sweat, and is exceeding good in pestilential fevers, in health it withstands melancholy and consumptions, and makes a merry blithe cheerful creature.   

Mathiolus, his Bezoar Water.  
Take of Mathiolus his great Antidote, syrup of Citron pills, of each one pound, spirit of wine distilled five times over, five pound, put all these in a glass that is much to big to hold them, stop it close that the spirit fly not out, then shake it together, that the Electuary may be well mingled with the spirit, so let it stand a month, shaking it together twice a week (for the Electuary will settle to the bottom.) The month being ended, power off the clear water into another glass to be kept for your use, stopping it very close with wax and parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapours.  
A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this water, for (quoth he) four drachms (that is half an ounce) of this water being taken, either by itself or in the like quantity of good wine, or any other cordial water, so absolutely & speedily cureth the bitings of any venemos beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient hath lost his speech, sight, & almost all the rest of his senses, yet will he be roused up like a man out of his sleep, to the wonderful admiration of the beholders, which he saith he hath proved a 
(d) if it want nine hundred of it, it matters not much it is but a figure called an Hyperbole: which is as much as tosay in English, an Eloquent lie.  thousand times. It draws away poison from the heart, and cures such as have drunk poison, it casts poison out of the stomach by vomit, and helps such as have the pestilence.  
A. For my own particular part, thus much I can testify by experience in the commendations of it. I have known it given in acute, in peracute fevers, with gallant success as also in consumptions, yea, in Hectics, and in Gallen supposed 
(e) which had it been so, my 〈◊〉 had never been alive to have written this Book.  Marasmos, neither hath it miss the desired effects, and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly, and the spirit vital.  
And then your own genius will tell you, this is fittest for cold complexions, cold diseases, and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in.   

Capon Water.  
Take a Capon, (the bowels and fat being taken away) cut him in bits, and boil him sufficiently in a 
(f) here's latitude beyond the Zodiac. In this case I can advise you no better than to make the broth strong or weak according to the strength or weakness of the patient.  sufficient quantity of water, according to art.  
Take of this broth being strained, two pound and an half, borage, and bugloss water, white Wine, of each one pound and an half, Flowers of Roses, Violets, borage, and bugloss of each two drachms, Crumbs of new bread, half a pound, bruised Cinnamon an ounce, distil it in Glass Still according to art.  
A. Divers Physicians have written several recepts of this water, as Gesner, Andr. é Lacuna, Med. Florent. and Coloniens. But the truth is this receipt (although our Physicians conceal it) was borrowed from the Augustan Physicians, and only because they thought (as I suppose) a Gapon must not be eaten without bread, they added the bread to it, the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physicians.  
A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart, and in truth the Composition greatly nourisheth and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions, and restoreth strength lost, either by fevers or other sickness, It is a sovereign remedy for Hectic fevers, and marasmos which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them, let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel.   

Cinnamon Water.  
Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half, Spanish wine 12. pints: Infuse the Cinnamon in the wine 24. hours, then distil them in an Alimbick; draw out three pints of strong waters, (and small as much as you think sufficient) sweeten it with sugar sufficiently, and so keep it for your use.  
A. The virtues are the same that Cinnamon itself hath, to which I refer you.   

Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water.  
Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound, put it into a Glasse-Still, pouring upon it four pints of Rose water, a pint and an half of Spanish wine, stop the Still body close, and place it in a warm bath 24. hours, then put on the Still-head, lute it well and distil it according to art.  
A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Crect 4. pints, and that is all the alteratton.  
A. The Authors own Judgement is, That it strengthens the brain, heart, liver, stomach, lungs spleen and nerves, quickens the sight, resisteth poison, helpeth bitings by venomous beasts, causeth a sweet breath, bringeth down the terms in women, and hath virtue, attenuating, opening, digesting and strengthening.  
A. The truth is, I believe it prevails in cold diseases, being orderly regulated in quantity, according to the nature of the disease, the age and strength of the patient, and the season of the year.   

Cinnamon Water made by Infusion.  
Take of Cinnamon bruised, four ounces, Spirit of Wine, two pints, infuse them together 4. days, in a large glass close stopped with cork and a bladder, shaking the glass twice a day.  
Dissolve half a pound of white sugar Candy, in a quart of Rose-water, then mix both these liquors together, then put into them four grains of musk, and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a fine rag and hung to the top of the glass.  
A. In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms, and faintings than Mathiolus his.   

Aqua Ceolestis. Mathiolus.  
Take of Cinnamon an ounce, Ginger half an ounce, white red and yellow Sanders, of each six drachms, Cloves, Gallanga, Nutmegs, of each two drachms and an half; Mace, Cubebs of each one drachm, both sorts of Cardamons, Nigella seeds of each three drachms, Zedoary half an ounce, seeds of Annis, Sweet-Fennel, Wild-Parsneps, Bazil, of each a drachm and an half, Roots of Angelica, Avens, Calamus Aromaticus, Liquoris, Valerian the less, the leaves of Clary, Time, Calaminth, Penyroyal, Mints, Mother of Time, Margerum, of each two drachms; the flowers of Red-Roses, Sage, Rosemary, Betony, Stoechas, Bugloss, borage, of each one drachm and an half; Citron pills, three drachms: Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised and infused 15. days in 12 pints of the best spirit of wine, in a glass body well stopped, and then let it be distilled in Balneo Mariae according to art. Adding to the distilled water, Powders of Diambra, Diamoscu dulce, Armaticum Rosatum, Diamargariton frigidum, Diarhodon Abbatis, powder of Electuary de gemmis, of each three drachms; yellow Sanders bruised two drachms, Musk, Ambergreese, of each a scruple tied up in a fine rag, clear Julip of Roses a pound; shake them well together, stopping the glass close with wax and parchment till it grow clear to be kept for your use.  
A. It comforteth and cherisheth the heart, reviveth drooping spirits, prevaileth against the plague and all malignant Fevers, preserveth the senses, and restoreth such as are in Consumptions.  
A. Only take this Caution, both concerning this and all other strong waters; They are not safely given by themselves in Fevers, (because by their hot quality they inflame the blood and ad fuel to the fire) but mixed with other convenient cordials, and consideration had to the strength, complexion, habit, age, and sex of the patient, for my own part, I aim sincerely at the public good in writing of this, and 〈◊〉 as I would not have Physicians domineer; so I would not have fools turn Physicians.   

A Cordial Water.  
Take of Angelica leaves half a pound, Carduus leaves six ounces, Bawm, and Sage, of each four ounces, Angelica seeds six ounces, sweet fennel seeds nine ounces, let the herbs (being dry) and the seeds be bruised grossly, to which add, the powders of Aromaticum Rosatum, and Diamoseu Dulce, of each an ounce and an half, Infuse these two days in 32. pints of Spanish wine, then distil them according to art, draw out ten pints of strong spirit, which sweeten (after two days standing) with a pound and an half of Sugar, dissolved in 
g me thinks they might have taken the pains to have prescribed what Rose-water, both in this and other receipts; but out of question it is red Rose-water.  Rosewater over the fire.  
Of the smaller spirit you may draw out six pints or more if you please for the 
h I know not what better word to give it, for their word Vehiculum signifies any thing to carry in, even from a chariot to a wheel-barrow.  mixtures of other Cordials.  
A. The chief end of composing this medicine was to strengthen the heart, and resist infection, and therefore is very wholesome in pestilential times, and for such as walk in stinking airs.   

Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae  
Take of the juice of borage, bugloss, Bawm, Bistort, Vervain, 
i Oxylapathum. Galen calls Sorrel by that name by reason of its sharp taste: but Dioscorides, Fuchsius, & Mathiolus derive the name from the sharp point of the leaf, whom it seems our Physicians follow, because here they join Sorrel with it, for the Greek word ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies only sharp Dock.  Sharp pointed Dock, Sorrel, Goats-Rue, Mirrhis, or sweet Chervil, Blue-bottle great and small, or the double quantity of the small, Roses, Marigolds, Lemons, Citrons, of each six ounces, juice of Burnet and Cinkfoyl, of each three ounces, white wine Vinegar a pint, Purslain-seeds, Water-lillie Flowers, of each two ounces, Earth of Lemnos, Silecia, and Samos, of each an ounce and an half, Powder called Diatrion Santalon, six drachms, Pearl prepared with juice of Citrons, three drachms, Infuse all the Powders, Flowers, and Seeds, (the Earth's and Pearls excepted) in the juices, and Vinegar, for three days, then distil it in water in a glasse-Still, and add to the distilled water, the Earth's and Pearls in fine powder, shake it together, and let it stand till it be clear, and keep it for your use.  
A. It mightily cools the blood, and therefore profitable in fevers, and all diseases proceeding of heat of blood, it provokes sleep.   

Langius his Antepileptical Water.  
Take of the Flowers of 
* Tilia.  Line tree, three handfuls, Lilies of the valley five handfuls, peony seeds half an ounce, infuse them eight days, in five pints of the best White-wine, then distil them in Balneo Mariae, with a gentle fire, Afterward  
Take of the flowers of Rosemary, half a handful, of the flowers of Lavender a handful, Rue a handful, Betony half a handful, Stoechas of Arabia one pugil, Peony roots two drachms and an half, Dictamny two drachms, Squils prepared one drachm and an half, Pellitory of Spain half a drachm, Misletoe of the Oak two drachms, Castorium one drachm, Cubebs, Cardamons of each one scruple, Mace half a dram, Cloves two scruples, Nutmegs one scruple, let all these being bruised, be infused in the water aforesaid, (and shaken well together) for six days, then distilled again in Balneo Mariae, and the water kept in a glass stopped.  
You may with one and the same labour prepare an extract which will be very efficacious.  
A. If the authority of Erasius, or daily experience will serve the turn, than was this reciept chiefly compiled against the convulsion fits, but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling sickness also, for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek signifies the Falling sickness, and indeed Erastus & experience pleads for this also: It is true the composition of Erastus differs from this, and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius, but it seems our Physicians, for some reasons best known to themselves, esteemed this the best.  
A. Well then, having now learned the virtues of the water, a word or two of the use will not be amiss. Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon (and so am I of that opinion also, for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the Falling-sickness, only at the new and full Moons, I could give reasons for this judgement of Erastus, but I am unwilling to be tedious.) Then saith he, if the disease come daily, let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening, if weekly, then let it be taken only at the new and full Moon, and at her quartiles to the Sun, if it begin to wear away, then only twice a month, viz. at the new and full Moon will suffice. It profits also in time of the fit, by rubbing their temples, nostrils, and jaws with it.   

Aqua Hysterica.  
Take of the Juice of Briony roots four pints, the juice of Rue and Mugwort, of each a quart, dried Savin leaves three handfuls, Featherfew, 
k Catmints.  Nep, Penyroyal, of each two handfuls, Basil, Dictamny of Crect, of each a handful and an half, fresh 
l the outward bark of the pill, take it in that sense always, both in Orange, Lemmon, and Citron pills, unless the other be noted.  Orange pills four ounces, Myrrh two ounces, Castorium one ounce, Canary Wine twelve pints, Infuse the simples in the Wine four days, then distil them in a bath, and keep the distilled water for your use, When it is half stilled you may prepare an Extraction of the residue, for the same use the water is.  
A. It wonderfully prevaileth against the fits of the mother and such like diseases incident to women, and is a most excellent remedy to bring away dead children and the after birth, a spoonful or two of it, being given: and therefore let Midwives make much of it.   

Imperial Water.  
Take of Citron pills dried, Orange pills, Nutmegs, Cloves Cinnamon, of each two ounces; Cyperus, Orris Florentine, Calamus Aromaticus of each an ounce, Zedoary, Galanga, Ginger, of each one ounce, Tops of Rosemary, Lavender, of each two handfuls, The leaves of Bay, Margerum, Hyssop, Bawm, Mints, Sage, Time, of each one handful, fresh Roses White, and Damask, of each half a handful. Rose-water four pints, of the best white Wine eight pints, The things to be bruised, being bruised, let them be infused twenty four hours in a glass Still over hot 
m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, his more usual.  ashes, and then distilled according to art.  
A. You must distil it in a bath and not in sand, It seems the College were but mean practitioners in Alchemy, but in this and many other recepts, 〈◊〉 to that monster called Tradition, therefore take this for a general Aphorism, All gross bodies, stilled in sand will stinkegregiously.  
A. It comforts and strengthens the heart against faintings and swoonings, and it is held to be a preservative against consumptions and apoplexies.   

Bawm Water: The greater Composition  
Take of Bawm a pound, Time, Penyroyal, of each three drachms, Cinnamon, two drachms, Cardamons the less one drachm: 
n and they are the greater Cardamons, as most of the Arabian Physicians held.  Grains of Paradise, half an ounce: Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce, Nutmegs, Ginger, of each a drachm, Galanga, six drachms, Calamus Aromaticus, Cyprus, of each a drachm and an half, Dictamni, half a drachm, let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine and six pints of strong Ale, for 24. hours together, and then distilled by an Alembick, draw out of the stronger water three pints.  
A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach, and therefore must needs strengthens cold & weak stomaches, & help digestion, besides Authors say, It restoreth memory lost, quickens all the senses, keeps away grey hairs and baldness, strengtheneth the brain, makes the heart cheerful, and helps the lisping of the tongue, easeth the pains of the teeth, and causeth a sweet breath.   

Aqua Mariae.  
Take of Sugar Candy a pound, Canary Wine six ounces, Rose Water four ounces, boil them to a Syrup, to which add Aqua Coelestis two pound, Ambergris, and Musk, of each eighteen grains, Saffron fifteen grains, Yellow Sanders two drachms, make of them a clear water. 
a viz. Tie up the Ambergreese, Musk, Saffron, and Sanders in a rag and hang it in the water by a string.   
A. It is of more virtue than Aqua Coelestis to resist fevers, to strengthen the heart, to relieve Languishing nature.   

Aqua Mirabilis.  
Take of Cloves, Galanga, Cubebs, Mace, Gardamoms, Nutmegs, Ginger, of each one drachm, juice of Chelondine, half a pound, Aquavitae, a 
* a pint weighs just a pound.  pound, White Wine three pints (or three pound which you please) Infuse them twenty four hours, and then draw a quart of water from them, by an Alembick.  
A. The Simples also of this regard the stomach, and therefore the water heats cold stomaches, besides Authors say it preserveth from Apoplexies, and restoreth speech lost.   

Rosa-Solis.  
Take of Nutmegs, Annis seeds, Coriander seeds, of each an ounce, Galanga, Ginger, Cloves, of each half an ounce, Red-rose leaves a handful, Ros-solis six handfuls, Liquoris two ounces, Cardamons, Zedoary, Grains of Paradise, Calamus, Aromaticus, of each a drachm, Yellow Sanders two drachms, Red Sanders, Cinnamon, of each an ounce and an half, Of the best Aquavitae, twelve pints, make an infusion of them for eight days, then strain it and add to the liquor, a pound and an half of Sugar.  
A. The Basis of this medicine, seems to be the herb Ros-solis, which is of a drying and binding quality and apropriated to the lungs, and therefore must needs be available for Phtisicks, or consumptions of the lungs, and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly, I suppose therefore the rose leaves were added, which according to 
c a Scholar Salern.  Authors resist lust.   

Dr. Stephen's Water.  
Take of Cinnamon, Ginger, Galanga, Cloves, Nutmegs, Grains of Paradise, seeds of Annis, Fennel, Caraway, of each one drachm, Herbs of Time, Mother of Time, Mints, Sage, Pennyroyal, Pellitory of the wall, Rosemary, Flowers of Red roses, Chemomel, Origanum, Lavender, of each one handful, infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Gascoign Wine, then with an Alembick, draw three pints of strong water from it.  
A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labour, that it provokes the terms, and brings away the afterbirth.   

Aqua Protheriacalis.  
Take of the leaves of Scordium, Scabious, Carduus Benedictus, Goats Rue, of each two handfuls, Citron pills, and Orange pills dried, of each two ounces, the seeds of Citrons, Carduus, 
a Seseli.  Hartwort, 
b Thlaspi.  Treacle, Mustard of each one ounce, The Flowers of Marigolds and Rosemary, of each a handful, Let the things to be cut, be cut, the things to be bruised be grossly bruised, and infused in four pints of White Wine, and a quart of Carduus Water, and (being put into a convenient glass) digested either by the heat of the sun or of the fire certain days, often shaking it, Then distilled in Balneo Mariae, reserve the two first pints by itself, & the remainder by itself, at last with every pound mix an ounce of Julapium Alexandrinum and a spoonful of Cinnamon Water.  
It is not bid from our eyes that there are very many Simples in the 
The Doctors Apology, which how wise it is, let others judge.  Composition of Treacle, the virtues of which cannot be exactly drawn out by distillation in Balneo Mariae, and therefore we of purpose subscribed this, that the rational Physician may at the time of giving it, appoint Treacle, or Diascordium, or any convenient syrup: notwithstanding lest we should seem different from all, we have added on receipt of Treacle water by distillation.  
A. Aqua Protheriacalis, signifies a Water for Treacle, so than if you put Diascordium to it, it is a water for Diascordium, well then, we will take it for a general water for all Physic.   

Aqua Theriacalis: by infusion.  
Take of the best distilled Wine, Wine of Crect, sharp Vinegar (in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boiled) of each two pound, Venus' Treacle, and Mithridate, of each half a pound, mix them all together and warm them a little either in the Sun or in a bath, and keep the tincture for your use.   

Aqua Theriacalis: distilled.  
Take of the juice of green Walnuts four pound, the juice of green Rue three pound, juices of Carduus Benedictus, Marigolds, Bawm, of each two pound, The roots of Patasites or Butter burrs fresh and green, a pound and an half, the Roots of Burrs one pound, Roots of Angelica and Masterwort green, of each six ounces, Scordium four handfuls, old Venus' Treacle and Mithridate, of each eight ounces, Canary Wine twelve pints, white Wine Vinegar six pints, Juice of Lemons a quart, Digest them for two days in horse dung, or else in a bath, let the vessel be well stopped, then distil it in sand, and in the distillation you may make an Extract called Extractum theriacale.  
A. That this latter water far exceeds the former, in virtues every way, I think no man that is well in his wits will deny, therefore I quote only the virtues of this, if any will use the former, I will not burden their conscience.  
A. This water is exceeding good in all Fevers, especially pestilential, it expelleth venomous humours by sweat, it strengtheneth the heart and vitals, it is an admirable counterpoison, special good for such as have the Plague, or are poisoned, or bitten by venomous beasts, and expelleth virulent humours from such as have the French Pocks, If you desire to know more virtues of it, see the virtues of Venice Treatle.   

Ordinary Aqua vitae.  
Distil Ale and lees of Wine in an Alembick (whose worm runs through cold water) into small Wine, in ten Congees of which infuse a pound of bruised Annis seeds, for twenty four hours then still it again into strong water.   

Aqua vitae compound.  
Is made of small Wines, in six congees of which, infuse Annis seeds half a pound, seeds of Fennel, and Caraway, of each two ounces, Cloves, Cinnamon, and Ginger, of each one ounce, and then draw the strong spirit from it.  
A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind.   

Spirit of Castorium  
Take of Castorium four ounces, Lavender flowers, one ounce, the Tops of Sage and Rosemary, of each half an ounce, Cinnamon six drachms, Mace, and Cloves, of each two drachms, Spirit of Wine rectified six pints: Digest all these in a glass being filled only to the third part, stopped close with cork and bladder, in warm ashes, or sand, than still it in a glass Alembick in Balneo Mariae well luted, and let it be kept close stopped.  
A. It resisteth poison and helps such as are bitten by venomous beasts, it causeth speedy delivery to women in travail, and casteth out the afterbirth, it provokes the terms in women, and helpeth the fits of the mother, it helps lethargies, convulsions, and in some cases is profitable for mad people, but in all, let it be mixed with convenient medicine for the purposes.   

Usquebach.  
Take of strong Aqua vitae 24. pints, in which, for four days infuse a pound of Liquoris, Raisins of the Sun half a pound, Cloves half an ounce, Mace, Ginger, of each two drachms, strain it and keep it for your use.  
A. It strengthens the stomach, and helps indigestion coming of phlegm and cold.   

Fallopius his Allum-Water.  
Take of Plantain and Red-rosewater, of each a pound, viz. a pint, Roch Alum, Quick silver, and Sublimatum, of each two drachms, grind the Alum and the Sublimate very fine, then let them boil altogether in a 
e you must set the glass in water and so boil it, else the glass will break.  glass with a narrow mouth till half be consumed, then let it stand five days that the Sublimate, and the dross of the Alum may sink to the bottom, then pour off the clear water and keep it for your use.  
A. Fallopius invented this for an unction for the French-pox, but in my opinion it is but a childish receipt, for the Quicksilver, will most assuredly fly out in boiling.    

PHYSICAL WINES  

Wormwood Wine.  
PUT a handful of dried Wormwood into every Congee of Wine, stop the vessel close and so let it stand in infusion.  
A. It helps cold stomaches, breaks wind, helps the Wind-chollick, strengtheneth the stomach, kills worms and helps the green sickness.  
Rosemary-flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made.  
A. It is good against all cold diseases of the head, consumeth phlegm, strengtheneth the gums and teeth.  
Eyebright-Wine is also made after the same manner.  
A. It wonderfully clears the sight being drunk, and revives the sight of ancient men, a cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles  
All other Wines are prepared in the same manner, when the Physician shall see fit, [quoth the College.]  
A. But what if there be never a Physician worth a 〈◊〉 in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles, (as some such places may be found in this Nation) must the poor country man lose his cure? truly this charity is according to the saying of the vulgar Fervent cold: in such cases let them view the virtues of the Simple the Wine is made of, and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomaches, than the Simple itself.  
A. And now I have veiwed the next receipt a little, you shall have first the receipt, 2. my opinion of it, 3. the virtue of it.   

Gallen Wine of Squils'.  
Take of white Squills of the 
a some hold they grow by the Sea, and so do 〈◊〉.  mountains, gathered about the rising of the Dog-star, and cut in thin pieces, one pound; dry them in the shadow for ten days, than put them in a glass and put to them twelve 
b see the meaning of the word in the measures at the beginning of the book.  sextaries of old French Wine, let it stand so forty days, then take out the Squils and throw them away.  
A. If admiration were not the daughter of ignorance I should most assuredly have admired at two things in this receipt. 1. At the time of gathering this same Squil, It seems the whole College laid all their learned heads together to hammer out the time when this Squil must be taken out of the earth, & the result of their consultations was, That it must be gathered [circiter Canis ortum] about the rising of the Dog-star, but which of the two Dog-stars they mean, whether Syrius or protion, or what rising of either, whether Cosmical, Acronyct, or Heliacal, I know not, nor I think themselves neither, a child in Astronomy cannot choose but smile at their learned ignorance, It seems they well observe that excellent maxim of Hypocrates, in his Praefat ad Astron nemo debet etc. No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician who is ignorant of Astrology because he is a Physician of no value. Indeed the truth is, the roots are brought to us from beyond sea, and we must be content with such as we can get.  
A. 2. It seems something strange to me why this Squill must be dried in the shadow, In truth I cannot but wonder at the folly not only of the Physicians of our times, but also of the ancient, who build their faith upon tradition, though as opposite to the truth as the East is to the West, viz. that all herbs must or aught to be dried in the shadow, because they suppose the Sun draws away their virtue, were it not (I pray) a notable piece of policy for a Farmer to dry his hay in the shadow, for fear the Sun should draw away the virtue of it? doth noth not Experience (a master worth ten ' of Tradition) teach that the hotter Sun the Hay is dried in, the more virtue is in it? and is Hay any thing else but a confusion of herbs, he who drieth his herbs in the Sun shall find them, 1. of a better colour, 2. of a better taste, 3. to yield more salt, and therefore must needs be best.  
A. Now a word or two to the virtues, according to Galen, from whom this receipt was taken.  
A. It conduceth wonderfully to health, for it attenuateth the humours, chiefly phlegm, neither doth it suffer it to remain in the stomach, head, belly, liver, spleen, nerves, or bones, it suffers no obstruction to be in the body, it purgeth the head, loosens the belly, and provokes urine, it is given with good success to such as have the gout, or the falling-sickness, thus Galen.  
A. It is true our Physicians have written the receipt verbatim out of Galen, but yet me thinks they who boast they have taken so much pains in compiling this book, might have taken a little more, to have corrected the Authors failings.    

PHYSICAL VINEGERS.  

Distilled Vinegar.  
FILL a glass body to the third part with the best Vinegar still it in sand, at first with a gentle fire, till the phlegm be drawn off, then increase the fire, and draw out the spirit.   

Vinegar of Roses. Mesue.  
Take of Rose buds (the whites being cut away, gathered in a clear dry day, and dried in the 
a here you may palpably see which is the best Physician, Dr. Reason, or Dr. Tradition.  shade three or four days) one pound, Vinegar eight sextaries, set them forty days in the Sun; then strain them, and keep the vinegar, if you then put in fresh rose leaves, and set it in the Sun 40. days longer it will have the better smell.  
After the same manner is prepared Vinegar of Elder flowers, Rosemary flowers, Sage flowers; Marigold flowers, Clove gillyflowers &c. let all the flowers be dried.  
A. For the virtues of all vinegers take this one only observation, they carry the same virtues with the flowers whereof they are made, only as we said of wines, that they were better for cold bodies than the bare simples whereof they are made, so are vinegers for hot bodies. Besides vinegars' are often, nay most commonly used externally, viz. to bathe the place, then look amongst the simples, and see what place of the body the simple is apropriated to, and then you cannot choose but know (if you have but a grain of understanding, more than a beast) both what vinegar to use, and to what place to apply it.   

Treacle Vinegar. Norimb.  
Take of the roots of Chelondine the greater, an ounce and an half, of the roots of Angelica, Masterwort, Gentian, Bistort, Valerian, Burnet, Dictamni, Elicampane, Zedoary, of each a drachm, Plantain the greater one drachm and an half; the leaves of Mousear, Sage, Scabious, Scordium, 
a commonly called Dittany by the vulgar.  Dictamni of Crect, Carduus Benedictus of each half a handful, Pills and Seeds of Citrons, of each a drachm and an half, Bowl Armenick one drachm, Saffron three drachms, Hartshorn a drachm and an half: of these, let the Saffron, Dictamni, Hartshorn and Bowl Armenick be tied up in a linen cloth, and infused with the things prescribed, in 5. pints of strong Vinegar, for certain days, in a glass well stopped, and by a temperate heat; then strain them out, and dissolve in the Vinegar, five drachms of the best treacle, shake them often together, and so keep them for your use.   

Treacle Vinegar.  
But the best Treacle-Vineger is prepared. If you add to the Confection of Treacle-Water, described in its proper place, Cloves two ounces, Lavender flowers an ounce and an half, power to it, Vinegar of Roses, and of Elder flower, of each four pints, digest it in Horsdung eight days, and then strain it through 
b which what it is, see the directions in the beginning.  Hypocrates his Sleeve.  
A. If you desire the virtues of these, look both Treacle itself, and Treacle-Water. Only take notice, that this is cooler.   

Vinegar of Squils'.  
Take of the flakes of a Squill which are between the outward bark & the root, cut them into small pieces, either with a Wooden or Ivory knife, and lay them in the 〈◊〉 Sun or other remise heat for 30. or 40. days, than put a pound of them into 
c there the College hit the nail at head.  a glass, and put six pounds of strong Vinegar to them, stop the glass close that nothing exhale out, and set it in the Sun 30. or 40. days, then strain it and keep it close stopped for your use.  
A. Although they say they borrowed the receipt of Mesue, yet be pleased to accept the Virtues of it from Galen.  
A. A little of this Medicine being taken in the morning fasting, and walking half an hour after, preserves the body in health, to extreme old age, (as Samius tried, who using no other medicine but this, lived in perfect health till an hundred and seventeen years of age) it maketh the digestion good, along wind, a clear voice, an acute sight, a good colour, it sufiers no offensive thing to remain in the body, neither wind, phlegm, choler, melancholy, dung nor urine, but brings them forth, it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones, it takes away salt and sour belchings, though a man be never so 
d I would not have Gallen judgement tried in this particular, it is far safer to take it upon his word.  licentious in diet, he shall feel no harm: It hath cured such as have the Phtisick, that have been given over by all Physicians: It cures such as have the Falling-sickness, Gouts, and diseases and swellings of the Joints; It takes away the hardness of the Liver and Spleen. We should never have done if we should reckon up the particular benefits of this Medicine; Therefore we commend it, as a wholesome medicine for soundness of body, preservation of health, and vigour of mind.    

DECOCTIONS  

A Carminative Decoction.  
TAke of the 
o you must bruise the seeds, else the Decection will be but little the better for them.  seeds of Annis, Carrots, Fennel, Commin, & Carraway, of each three drachms; Camomel flowers, half a handful; Raisins of the Sun an ounce and an half, boil them in two pints of water, till almost half be consumed.  
A. It is commonly used in Clysters, to such whose bodies are molested or oppressed with wind.   

The common Decoction for Clysters.  
Take of Mallows, Violets, Pellitory of the wall, Beets, 
z understand the herb called Mercury always unless the contrary be specified.  Mercury, of each a handful, Fennel seeds, half an ounce, boil them in a 
a if you know not what is a sufficient quantity, keep a quart.  sufficient quantity of water to a pound.  
A. This is the common decoction for all Clysters, according to the quality of the humour abounding, so you may add what simples, or syrupes, or electuaries you please.   

A common Decoction for a Medicine.  
Take of 
b Barley husked is usually called by that name.  French Barley a pugil, six 
a if you can get any such, all those that ever I tasted were sour.  sweet Prunes, Raisins of the Sun, Tamarinds, Liquoris, of each half an ounce, Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, of each two drachms, in Summer time ad of the four greater cold seeds, of each two drachms, of each of three of the cordial Flowers, a 
o see Directions in the beginning.  pugil and an half, boil these in two pints of water till half be consumed.  
A. This was Guainerius his receipt, whose works I neither have, nor know where to borrow, and therefore I can give you no other virtues of this Medicine than what the title affords, it is a composition, which with addition of other Medicines is fit for every thing, but in itself is good for little.   

A Decoction of Epithimum: Mesue.  
Take of Indian Myrabolans, Stoechas of Arabia, Raisins of the Sun, Epithimum or Doddar of time, of each an ounce, Myrabolans chebs, Fumitory, of each half an ounce, Senna, an ounce, Polypodium of the Oak, six drachms, White Turbith half an ounce, 
a the Eupatorum of Mesae, for so you must take this the receipt being his; is the herb we call Maudlin, and not Agrimonv: The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; that is, not growing old, because the flowers gathered in due time, decay not by age. ging quality.  Eupatorium five drachms, Whey made of Goats or Heifers milk, three pints, let them all (the 
b you had not best boil the Senna altogether so much, left it lose its 〈◊〉  Epithimum excepted) boil to the consumption of two pints, then add the Epithimum, let it boil a little together, and having taken it from the fire, ad to it, black Hellebore a drachm, Agrick half a drachm, 
c if you lack Sal-Indi, you may take Sal-Gem.  Sal Indi a drachm and an half, let it stand close stopped in infusion eight or ten hours, then strain it for your use.  
A. It purgeth melancholy gallantly, as also addust Choler, It resisteth madness, and all diseases coming of melancholy, and therefore let melancholy people esteem it as a Jewel.   

A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits.  
Take five Figs, fifteen Prunes, Jujubes and Sebestens, of each twenty, Tamarinds an ounce, the flowers of Roses, Violets, borage, Buglos, of each a drachm, Maidenhair, Hops, Endive of each half a handful, Liquoris two drachms, being cut and bruised, boil them in three pints of spring water to the consumption of the third part.  
A. It strengthens the lungs, and opens obstructions.   

A Pectoral Decoction.  
Take of Raisins of the Sun stoned, an ounce, Sebesten Jujubes, of each 15. Dates 6. Figs 4. French-Barly an ounce, Liquoris half an ounce, Maiden hair, Hyssop, Scabious, Coltsfoot, of each half a handful, cut them, and boil them in three pints of spring water, till one pint be consumed.  
A. The Medicine is chiefly apropriated to the lungs, and therefore causeth a clear voice, a long wind, resisteth Coughs hoarseness, Asthmaes etc.   

A Decoction of Senna.  
Take of Senna two ounces & an half, Ginger a drachm, The flowers of borage, Violets, red Roses, & Rosemary-flowers, of each 2. drams, Polipodium of the Oak half an ounce, Sebesten, Prunes, of each 12. Raisins of the Sun stoned, two ounces, make a decoction of them, in four pints of spring water, till half be consumed, yet so as the Senna may boil but little, let it stand off from the fire close stopped six hours after it is boiled, then strain it out, for your use.  
A. It is a common decoction for any purge, by adding other Simples or Compounds to it, according to the quality of the humour you would have purged, yet in itself it chiefly purgeth melancholy.   

Lac Virgineum.  
Take of Alum, four ounces, boil it in a quart of spring water, to the third part: Afterwards,  
Take of 
d beaten into very fine powder.  lethargy half a pound, white wine Vinegar, a pint and an half, boil it to a pint, strain both the waters, then mix them together and stir them about till they are white.  
A. It takes away pimples, redness, freckles, and sunburning the face being washed with it.   

A Drink for wounded men.  
Take of Crabs of the river 
e burnt  calcined, and beaten into very fine powder two drachms, the roots of round 
a birthwort.  Aristolochiah and of Comfry the greater, 
b a sort of Comfry.  selfheal, Bay-berries lightly bruised of each a drachm, ty them all up in a linen cloth, and boil them in three pints of white Wine, till the third part be consumed, adding about the middle of the decoction, one pugil of 
c the herb, not the fish.  Perewincles, then strain it for your use.  
This decoction must be prepared only for the present when the Physician appoints it, as also must almost all the rest of the decoctions,  
A. And therefore lest my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an angel to fee a 
a too many Physicians in England being like Balaams' Ass, they will not speak unless they see an Angel: yet I accuse not al.  Physician, or if he have it, before the Physician (which in some places is very remote) can come at him, I have taken the pains to write the receipt in his own mother tongue, he may get any friend to make it.    

SYRUPS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPOUND WHICH ARE IN USE.  

Syrup of Vinegar Simple, of London.  
TAke of white Sugar five pound, White-Wine-Vineger a quart, melt them into a Syrup according to art.  
A. That is, Only melt the Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire, scum it, but boil it not.   

Syrup of Vinegar Simple, of Mesue.  
Take of White Sugar five pound, Clear Water sour pints, boil it. into a Syrup, scumming it well, then put a quart of Vinegar to it, and boil it again to a Syrup.  
A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best; the difference is but little, I hold the last to be the best of the two, and would give my reasons for it, but that I fear the Book will swell too big: They both of them cut phlegm, as also tough, hard, viscous humours in the stomach; they cool the body, quench thirst, provoke urine, and prepare the stomach before the taking of a vomit.   

Syrup of Vinegar Compound, Mesue.  
Take of the roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Endive, of each three ounces; the seeds of Smallage, Fennel, & Annis, of each one ounce, Endive seeds half an ounce, Clear Water six pints; boil them in a vessel well glazed over a gentle fire, till half the water be consumed, then strain it, and add to 
a to the liquor I mean, not to the feceses.  it, three pound of Sugar, clarify it, and then add a pint and an half of white-wine-Vinegar to it, and boil it to a syrup.  
A. This in my opinion is a gallant syrup for such whose bodees are stuffed either with phlegm or tough 〈◊〉, for it opens obstructions or stops both of the stomach, liver, spleen, and reins, it cuts and brings away tough phlegm and choler, and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a stuffing at their stomach.   

Syrup of the juice of Citrons. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of Citrons strained without expression, and clarified, a pint, Sugar two pound and an half, melt it into a syrup over the fire.  
A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from choler or heat of blood, fevers, both pestilential and not pestilential, it resisteth poison, cools the blood, quencheth thirst, cureth the vertigo or dissines in the head.  
After the same manner is made, syrup of 
o that is, Grapes not ripe.  sour Grapes, 
a this is the right ground Ivy, it may be I may sometimes use the word permiscuously.  Cherries, Quinces, Pomegranates, Lemons, Wood-Sorrel, Sorrel; 
p Ribs.  English Currants, and other sour juices clarified.  
A. If you look the Simples you may see the virtues of them they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach, syrup of Quinces stays vomiting, so doth also syrup of Grapes. 
a called also Lluellin by some Welshman or another, and that's. the reason that Welshmen vapour so much of the virtues of this herb, which is a quality most of that generation are excellent at.    

Syrup of Betony Simple.  
Take of the juice of Betony clarified three pound, white Sugar three pound, boil them to a Syrup.  
After the same manner is made syrup of the juices of borage, Bugloss, Carduns benedictus, Chamomel, Endive, Succory, Strawberries, Fumitory, Alehoof, St. john's Wort, Hops, Mercury, Plantain, Apples, Scabious, Coltsfoot, 〈◊〉 or Paul's Bettony.  

A. Reader, before we pass any further I thought good to advertise thee of these few things, which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the surups, had I not forgotten it.  
A. 1. A syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body, compounded of decoction, infusion or juice, with Sugar or honey, and brought by the heat of the fire, into the thickness of honey.  
A. 2. Because all honey is not of a thickness, understand new honey which of all other is thinnest.  
A. 3. The reason why decoctions, infusions, and juices are thus used is, because thereby,  


1. They will keep the longer.  
2. They will taste the better.    
A. 4 In boiling syrups have a great care of their just consistence, for if you boil them too much, they will candy, if too little they will sour.  
A. 5. All Simple syrups have the virtues of the simples they are made of, and are far more convenient for weak people, and queasy stomaches.    

Syrup of Bettony compound.  
Take of Betony three handfuls, Margerum a handful and an half, Time, Roses, of each a handful, Violets, Staechas, Sage, of each half a handful, the seeds of Fennel, Annis 
1 Ammi.  Bishopsweed of each half an owce, the roots of Peony, Polipodium, and Fennel, of each five drachms, boil them in six pints of water, till half be consumed, strain it, and ad to the decoction, Juice of Bettony, a quart, Sugar, three pound and an half, boil them into a syrup according to art.  
A. It helps diseases coming of cold, both in the head and stomach, as also such as come of wind, vertigoes, madness, it concocts melancholy, it provokes the terms in women, and so doth the Simple syrup more than the Compound.  
A. This composition was borrowed word for word from the Augustan Physicians, though our Physicians absconded it, contrary to their promise in the epistle to the reader.   

Syrupus Bizantinus Simple. Mesue  
Take of the juice of Endive and Smallage, of each a quart, Juice of Hops and bugloss, of each a pint, boil them and clarify them then to four pound of Juices remaining, ad four pound of the best Sugar, boiling it to a syrup, over agentle fire.   

Syrupus Bizantinus Compound. Mesue.  
In four pound of the same Juices as they are set down in the Simple syrup, boil red Rose leaves two ounces, Liquoris half an ounce, the seeds of Annis, Fennel, Smallage, of each three drachms, Spicknard two drachms, strain it, and ad to the decoction a quart of Vinegar, Sugar four pound, boil it to a syrup according to art.  
A. They both of them (viz. both Simple and Compound) opens stopping in the stomach, cuts and brings away tough phlegm, and helps the yellow Jaundice, Mesue saith the Compound syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses.   

Syrup of Quinces. Mesue.  
Take of the Juice of Quinces six pound, boil it over a gentle fire till half be consumed, scumming it well, then add to it three pints of red Wines, four pound of Sugar, boil it again to the consistence of a syrup, into which put a drachm and an half of Cinnamon, Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples, tied up in a fine linen cloth, and hung into the syrup.  
A. It strengthens the stomach, and retains the food in it, It stays vomiting, it stops the looseness of the belly, and helps the bloody flux, it stoppeth the immoderate flux of the terms in women, and is a gallant astringent medicine, no less pleasant than profitable.   

Syrup of Fumitory the Compund. Fernelius.  
Take of Endive, Roman Wormwood, Hops, 
z Cassutha, the Arabic name of Dodder,  Dodder, Harts tongue, of each a handful, Epithimum or Dodder of Time, an ounce and an half, boil them in four pints of water, till half be 
a if you boil the Dodder and 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 to long, you had as good never put it in, for a very little boiling takes out the virtues of them.  consumed, to the liquor being strained out, ad of the juice of Fumitory clarified, a pint and an half, of the juice of both sorts of bugloss, of each half a pint, white Sugar four pound, boil it into a syrup, according to art.  
A. The receipt is a pretty concocter of melancholy, and therefore a rational help for diseases 〈◊〉 thence, both internal and external, It helps diseases of the skin, as Leprosies, Cancers, Warts, Corns, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, Scabs, etc. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness, for in my experience, I could never find a violent medicine do good, but ever harm in a 
b melancholy is a sad sullen humour, you had as good vex a nest of wasps asvex it  melancholy disease. It also strengthens the stomach, and liver, opens obstructions, and is a sovereign remedy for Hypochondriack melancholy.   

Syrup of Purslain. Mesue.  
Take of the seeds of Purslain grossly bruised, half a pound, of the juice of Endive boiled and clarified two pound, Sugar two pound, Vinegar nine ounces, infuse the seeds, in the juice of Endive twenty four hours, afterwards, boil it half away with a gentle fire, then strain it and boil it with the Sugar to the consistence of a syrnp, adding the Vinegar, towards the latter end of the decoction.  
A. It is a pretty cooling syrup, fit for any hot diseases, incident to the stomach, reins, bladder, matrix, or liver, it thickens phlegm, cools the blood and provokes sleep.   

Compound Syrup of Coltsfoot. Renodaeus.  
Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot, two handfuls of Maidenhair, one handful of Hyssop, and two ounces of Liquoris, boil them in four pints, either of 
o if I durst spend paper about it; I could easily prove spring-water to be the best by far.  rain or spring water, till the fourth part be consumed, then strain it and clarify it, to which add three pound of white Sugar, boil it to the perfect consistence of a syrup.  
A. The composition is apropriated to the lungs, and therefore helps the infirmities, weaknesses, or failings thereof, as want of voice, difficulty of breathing, coughs, hoarseness, cathars etc.   

Julep of Alexandria.  
Take of red Rose water four pints, Sugar two pound, make a Julep of them according to art.   

Julep of Roses. Mesue  
Ad three pound of Rose water to three pound of Sugar and boil them to a Julep according to art.  
Julep of Violets is made after the same manner.  
A, It is confessed both Arabian and Grecian Physicians have written of these Juleps, they are fine cooling drinks in the heat of Summer, for such as are rich and have nothing else to do with their money.   

Oxysaxccharum symplex. Nicholaus.  
Take of white Sugar a pound, of the juice of Pomegranates eight ounces, white wine Vinegar four ounces, boil them into a syrup with a gentle fire.  
A. Whether it were Nicholaus Monardus, or Nicholaus Myrepsus that wrote this receipt, or any other Nicholas, I know not neither have I time to look, but if you would know the virtues of it, look the virtues of Pomegranates, amongst the Simples and you have it.   

Syrup of Maidenhair. Mesue.  
Take of Liquoris two ounces, Maidenhair five ounces, infuse them in four pints of spring water, boil them gently, strain the decoction strongly, and with a pound and an half of white Sugar, boil it unto a syrup according to art.  
A. It opens stops of the stomach, strengthens the 〈◊〉, and helps the infirmities of them.   

Syrup of Cinnamon.  
Take of Cinnamon grossly bruised, four ounces, infuse it in a pint of white wine, for three days, in a glass, by a 
a you may do it in warm water or a bath.  gentle heat, then having strained out the Cinnamon ad to it, a pound and an half of white sugar, boil it gently to a syrup.  
A. It hath the same virtues with Cinnamon water, and being not so hot, must needs be far better for hot bodies.  
After the same manner may be made syrup of Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, Ginger, Cloves, Nutmegs etc.  
A. If any will be so nice to make such, 'tis but viewing the Simples and there you have the virtues of them.   

Syrup of Coral Simple. 
o the eross excepted which will never dissolve while the world 〈◊〉.   
Take of Red Coral finely powdered as much as you will, dissolve it in a glass, in Balneo Mariae in such a quantity of the clarified juice of Barberries, that the juice may swim above it the breath of four fingers, stopping the glass close, with cork or wax, when it hath stood in the glass three days, pour off what is dissolved, and pour in fresh juice of Barberries clarified, set it in the bath again till all the 
b you must first beat it into powder, else you may grind till your heartaches, before you obtain your purpose.  Correl be dissolved, Then to one pound of this juice, ad one pound of Sugar, and boil it to the consistence of a syrup: but in the Preparation of this Syrup it requireth a great deal of skill and dexterity, lest you er.   

Syrup of Coral Compound.  
Take of Red Coral six ounces, bring it into a 
a I know not what fitter term to give that Arabic word Alkool.  powder by 
b you must first beat it into powder, else you may grind till your heartaches, before you obtain your purpose.  grinding it upon a marble with a little rose water, Then add to it, Juice of Lemons clarified from the phlegm in Balneo Mariae, sixteen ounces, juice of Barberries clarified, eight ounces, sharp wine Vinegar, juice of wood Sorrel clarified, of each six ounces, digest them in a bath or else in horsedung eight days, in a large glass, stopped close with cork and bladder, shaking it every day then let it 
c make the paper handsomely in form of a sunnel, and so stick it in a sunnel, & put the sunnel in another glass: this is that they call filtering.  run through a brown paper, of which take a pound and an half: juice of Quinces half a pound, Sugar of Roses twelve ounces, mix them all together, and with the gentle heat of a bath, draw off the superfluous liquor, till it be left of the consistence of a Syrup, to which add Syrup of Clovegilliflowers sixteen ounces, together with half a drachm of Amber grease, and four grains of Musk, tied up in a cloth and hung into the glass by a string.  
A. Syrup of Coral, both Simple and compound restore such as are in consumptions, are of a gallant cooling nature especially the last, and very cordial, special good for Hectic fevers, it stops fluxes, the running of the reins and the whites in women, helps such as spit blood, and such as have the falling sickness, it stays the terms in women, and indeed it had need be good for something, for it is exceeding costly.   

Syrup of the Infusion of Clovegilliflowers.  
Take a pound of Clovegilliflowers, the white being cut off, infuse them at 
a whether one one pound at three times, or three pounds at three times might be some question, yet not so great an one but experience will decide it: howsoever let it pass for one of the Colleges misty recepts.  3. times in three pints of spring water all night, afterwards with two pound of Sugar, boil it into a Syrup according to art.  
A. Which if you do, it will be scarce worth your labour, but will lose both colour and taste, and by consequence virtue in boiling, and then the College themselves would say 'tis naught: for in all syrups which you would have keep colour, of which this is one, add two pound of Sugar, to each pint of insusion, and only melt it over the fire, in a pewter vessel, and I assure you if in prescribing this and many other medicines, the College did make use of the ablest Apothecaries for the manner of composition of the medicines, either the ablest were very weak or very negligent, but enough of this.  
A. The Syrup is a fine temperate syrup, it strengthens the heart, liver, and stomach, it refresheth the vital spirits, and is a good cordial in fevers.   

Syrup of Citron pills. Mesue.  
Take of the thin outward pills of Citrons, dried, five ounces, of the berries of Kermes or the 
o I rest coufident that the juice (if right) is better by 20 parts, and my confidence is built upon the rock of reason, and not upon the sand of tradition.  juice of them brought over from beyond sea, two drachms, spring water four pints, set them in infufiou all night, and the next morning boil it till half be consumed, strain it and add to the decoction, two pound and an half of very good sugar, boil it into a syrup according to art, which perfume, with six grains of the best Musk, wrapped up in fine linen and hung into the syrup by a string.  
A. It strengthens the stomach, resists poison, strengthens the heart, and refists the passions thereof, palpitation, faintings, swoonings, It strengthens the vital spirit, restores such as are in consumptions and hectic fevers, and strengthens nature much.   

Syrup of Water-Lillie-flowers Simple. Nicholaus.  
Take of the whitest part of White-water-Lilly-flowers a pound, infuse them for seven hours in three pound of warm water, then boil it a little, and strain it, and add the like quantity of fresh flowers, use them in like manner as you did the former; repeat this infusion three times, then clarify the infusion, and having added the like quantity of sugar to it, boil it into a syrup according to art.   

Syrup of Water-lillie-flowers, the Compound. Fernelius.  
Take of Water-lillie-flowers half a pound, the flowers of Violets two ounces, Lettuce two handfuls, the seeds of Lettuce, Purslain, and Gourds, of each half an ounce; boil all these in four pints of water, to the consumption of one pint, and having strained it, ad to the decoction, Red Rose Water half a pint, White Sugar four pound, boil it to a Syrup according to art.  
A. They both are fine cooling Syrups, they alloy the heat of choler, and provoke sleep, they cool the body, both head, heart, liver, reins, and matrix, and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either.   

Syrup of Meconium. Mesue.  
A. Meconium: The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispiece, is nothing else but the juice of English Poppies boiled till it be thick; as I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juice of 
d for such Opium as Authors talk of, comes from Utopia.  Poppies growing in hotter countries (and therefore in all reason is colder in quality) and therefore (I speak purely of Meconium and Opium, not of these Syrups) though they be no edge-tools, yet 'tis ill jesting with them.  
Take of the heads of white Poppies meanly ripe and green eight ounces; of the heads of black Poppies meanly ripe and green, six ounces, 
e spring water is better.  Rain-water four pints, boil them in the water till half of it be consumed, then strain it, and with 
a in all conscience (especially as conscience goes now adays) here is too little sugar by half.  fixteen ounces of Sugar, boil it into a Syrup according to art, and when you have done so, you may use it (if you please) for Diacodium.   

Syrup of 〈◊〉, the lesser Composition  
Take the heads of white Poppies and black, when both of them are green, of each six ounces; the seeds of Lettuce, the flowers of Violets, of each one ounce, boil them in eight pints of water, till the virtue is out of the heads, then strain them, and with four pound of Sugar boil the liquor to a Syrup.   

Syrup of Popplyes, the greater Composition. Mesue.  
Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies, seeds and all, of each 50. drachms, Maidenhair 15. drachms, Liquoris 5. drachms, Jujubies 30. by number, Lettuce seeds 40. drachms; of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces (tied up in a thin linen cloth) of each a drachm and an an half; boil these in eight pints of water till five pints be consumed; when you have strained out the three pints remaining, add to them, Penidies and White Sugar of each a pound, boil them into a Syrup according to art.  
A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that, I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness, such as these are, are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Fevers, nor to such whose bodies are costive; ever remember my former Motto, Fools are not fit to make Physicians. Yet to such as are troubled with hot sharp Rheums, you may safely give them; and note this, the last, which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungus, whose own words (translation excepted) of it are these, It prevails against dry coughs, Phtisicks, hot and sharp gnawing Rheums, and provokes sleep.   

Syrups of Red, or Erratic Poppies: A. by many called Corn-Roses.  
Taken of flowers of red Poppies two pound, infuse them 24. hours in four pints of spring 
a let the water be warm, else you may happen to lose your labour.  water, and with three pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup.  
A. Some are of opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other: believe them that list: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken with moderation; and bread immoderately taken, hurts; the syrup cools the blood, helps surfeits, and may safely be given in Frenzies, Fevers and hot agues.   

Syrup of Peach flowers.  
Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound, infuse them in three pints of warm water for the space of twelve hours, then let them boil a little and press them out, adding the like quantity of Peach-flowers, and use them as the former, do so five times, at last, to three pound of the infusion add two pound and an half of Sugar, boil it to a syrup.  
A. It is a gentle purger of choler and may be given even in fevers to draw away the sharp choleric humours, according to the opinion of Andernacus whose receipt (all things considered) differs little from this.   

Syrup of dried Roses. Mesue.  
Take four pound of spring water, in which being warm, infuse a pound of dried red Rose leaves for the space of twenfour hours, then press them out, and with two pound of white sugar, boil the infusion to a syrup.  
A. I pray take a caution or two a long with you, concerning this syrup, and there is need enough unless it were penned more wisely than it is.  
A. 1. You cannot infuse all the rose leaves at one time because there will not be water enough to wet them hardly, you must then infuse them at divers. A man had need have a head as deep as a Coal-pit to reach their meaning in some of their recepts.  
A. 2. If you boil it, it will lose both colour and virtue, and then who but the College would first cry out against such 
in syrups made o. decoctions, the colour is not so material.  paltry stuff, I am weary with noting this in every receipt, therefore be pleased to accept of this one general rule, It is not best to boil any syrup made of infusions, but by adding the double weight of Sugar (viz. two pound of Sugar to each pint of Infusion) melt it over a fire only.  
A. Syrup of dried Roses, strengthens the heart, comforts the spirits, bindeth the body, helps fluxes and corrosions, or gnawings of the guts, it strengthens the stomach, and stays vomiting.   

Syrup of Roses Solutive. Mesue  
Take of the infusions of Rofes made with fresh 
* pick the roses.  Damask Roses, let the infusion be repeated nine times, (let it be made in that proportion, that one pound of Rose flowers may be infused in four pints of water, and those being taken out, infuse as many more in the same water, do so nine times) six pound, with four pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup.  
A. It loosneth the belly, and gently bringeth out choler and phlegm.   

Syrup of Roses with Agrick.  
Take of choice Agrick sliced thin, an ounce, Ginger sliced two drachms, Sal gem. one drachm, Polipodium grossly bruised two ounces, sprinkle them with white. Wine, then infuse them two days in such infusion of damask Roses, as you were taught to make the former receipt, a pound and an half, warm by the fire, then press it out, and with one pound of Sugar boil it into a Syrup, according to art.  
A. You had better add twice so much Sugar as is of the infusion, for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in boiling.  
A. It purgeth phlegm from the head, relieves the senses oppressed by it, it provokes the terms in women, It purgeth the stomach and liver, and provoketh urine.   

Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore. Montanus.  
Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans, of each four ounces, bruise them grossly, and infuse them in twelve pints of the infusion of Roses, before prescribed 24. hours, adding of Senna, Epithimum, and Polipodium of the Oak, of each four ounces, Cloves an ounce, Citron seeds, liquoris, of each four ounces, of the 
f take the roots themselves, for if the bark be to be had it is very rare.  bark of black Hellebore roots, six drachms boil them all to the consumption of the fourth part, to which add five pound of white Sugar, choice Rhubarb tied up in a linen cloth, sixteen drachms, boil them into a syrup according to art.  
A. You must not boil the black Hellebore at all, or but very little, if you do you had as good put none in, me thinks the College should have had either more wit or honesty, than to have left recepts so woodenly penned to posterity, or it may be they wrote as they say only to the learned, or in plain English for their own ends, or to satisfy their covetousness, that a man must needs run to them every time his finger aches.  
A. The Syrup rightly used purgeth melancholy, resisteth madness.   

Syrup of Violets.  
Take of picked 
a blue violets not white.  Violet flowers a pound, Spring water heat hot, a pound and an half, or else a 
* which is 〈◊〉 pints if your violets be good.  sufficient quantity, infuse the Violets in the water, & let it stand warm and close stopped 24. hours, then press them very hard out, and to one pound of the expression add two pound of fine Sugar, only dissolve the Sugar, and so keep the Syrup for your use.   

Syrup of the juice of Violets.  
Make it up with just so much juice of the flowers of violets as will dissolve the Sugar into a Syrup without boiling.  
A. Which is two pound of Sugar to one pound of Juice.  
A. This latter Syrup is far more chargeable than the former, and in all reason the better, although I never knew it used, they both of them cool and moisten, and that very gently, they correct the sharpness of choler, and give ease in hot vices of the breast, they quench thirst in acute fevers, and resist the heat of the disease, they comfort hot stomaches exceedingly, cool the liver and heart, and resist putrefaction, pestilence and poison.    

COMPOUND SYRUPS, WHOSE SIMPLES ARE NOT IN USE.  

Syrup of Wormwood. Mesue.  
Take of Roman Wormwood half a pound, red Rose leaves two ounces, Indian spicknard three drachms, old white Wine, juice of Quinces of each two pound and an half, infuse them 24. hours in an earthen vessel, then boil them till half be consumed, strain out the decoction, and with two pound of Sugar, boil it into a syrup, according to art.  
A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this, and the receipt is apropriated to cold and phlegmatic stomaches, and in my opinion 'tis an admirable remedy for it, for it strengthens both stomach and liver, as also the instruments of concoction, a spoonful taken in the morning is admirable for such as have a weak digestion, it provokes an Appetite to ones victuals, it prevails against the yellow Jaundice, breaks wind, purgeth humours by urine.   

Syrup of Marsh-Mallows. Fernelius  
Take of Marshmallow roots, two ounces, red 
a 〈◊〉 some call 〈◊〉 in English Cich pease.  Cicers an ounce, the roots of Grass, Sparagus, and Liquoris, Raisins of the sun stoned, of each half an ounce, the branches of Marsh-mallows, pellitory of the wall, Burnet, Plantain, Maidenhair both white and black, of each a handful, of the 
c see in the beginning of the book what they are.  four greater and four lesser cold seeds of each three drachms, boil them in six pints of water, till only four remain, to which add four pounds of Sugar and boil it to a syrup.  
A. It is a fine cooling, opening, slippery syrup, and chiefly commendable for the colic, stone, or gravel, in the kidneys or bladder.  
A. I shall only give you a caution or two concerning this syrup, which for the forenamed effects, I hold to be exceellent.  
A. 1. Be sure you boil it enough, for if you boil it never so little too little it will quickly be sour.  
A. 2. For the colic, (which is nothing else but an infirmity in the gut called Colon, and thence it takes its name) you had best use it in Clysters, but for gravel or the stone, drink it in convenient midicines, or by itself, If both of them afflict you use it both ways, I assure you this midicine will save those that are subject to such diseases, both money and pain.   

Syrup of Mugwort. Matheus De Grad.  
Take of Mugwort two handfuls, Penyroyal, Chamomel, Origanum, Bawm, Arssmart, Dittany of Crect, Savin, Margerum, Germander, St. john's Wort, 
c ground pine:  Chamepytis, 
* Matricaria. let others translate it by what name they will, I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that name I suppose to be true.  Featherfew with flowers, Centaury the less, Rue, Bettony, bugloss, of each one handful, the roots of Fennel, Smalledge, Parsly, Sparagus, Bruscus, Saxifrage, Alicampane, Cyperus, Madder, Orris, Peony, of each an ounce, Juniper berries, the seeds of Lovage, Parsly, Small age, Annis, Nigella, Carpobal samum or Cubebs, Costus or Zedoary, the roots of Asarabacca and Pellitory of Spain, Cassia Lignea, Cardamons, Calamus 
a called by some 〈◊〉 broom, in Suffix Kneeholly.  Aromaticus, Valerian, of each half an ounce, Let these being bruised be infused for 24. hours in twelve pints of water, afterwards boiled till half the water be consumed, when it is pretty cool, strain it and add to the decoction, Honey and sugar, of each two pound, sharp vinegar four ounces, boil them into a syrup, perfuming it with Cinnamon and Spicknard of each three drachms, tied up in a rag, and boiled a little in the syrup.  
A. It helps the passions of the matrix, and retains it in its place, it dissolves the coldness, wind, and pains thereof, it strengthens the nerves, opens the pores, corrects the blood, it corrects and provokes the terms in women.   

Syrupus Augustanus: Or, Syrup of Rhubarb of the Augustane Physicians.  
Take of the best Rhubarb, of Senna of each two ounces and an half; Violet flowers a handful, Cinnamon a drachm and an half, Ginger half a drachm, the waters of Betony, Succory, and Bugloss of each a pound and an half, infuse 
* hot or else you do nothing.  them all night, in the morning strain it, and boil it into a Syrup with two pound of white Sugar, adding to it four ounces of the Syrup of Roses solutive following.  
A. It cleanseth Choler and Melancholy very gently, and therefore is fit for children, old people, and weak bodies.   

Syrup of Roses solutive, without Helibore.  
Take of all the Myrobalans of each two ounces, bruise them grolly, & rub them with a little oil of sweet Almonds, then infuse them in fifteen pound of infusion of Roses for 24. hours' space, then add to them, Polypodium two ounces and an half, the seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron an ounce and an half, Annis, sweet Fennel, seeds of each six drachms, Senna three ounces, Epithimum an ounce and an half, Citron pills an ounce, Cloves half an ounce, Nutmegs three drams, infuse them again 24. hours, which being elapsed, strain them hard, and add one pound of sugar to every two pound of the liquor, boil it into a syrup: This is the syrup which should be added to the former Syrup of Rhubarb.   

Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb.  
Take of 
a viz. not husked.  whole Barley, the roots of Smallage, Fennel, Sparagus, of each two ounces; Succory, Dandelion, Endive, smooth Sow-thistle, of each two handfuls; Lettuce, Liverwort, Fumatory, tops of Hops, of each a handful; both sorts of Maidenhair, Cetrach, Liquoris, winter-Cherries, Dodder, of each six drachms, boil them in 12. pints of spring-water till the third part be consumed, then strain it, and with six pound of Sugar boil it to a syrup, in which, whilst it is bouling, hang by a string six ounces of 
* sliced thin; or else you had almost as good hang in, a stone.  Rhubarb, six drams of Spicknard, tied up in a rag, let it boil a walm or two, pressing it often, and let it hang into the syrup perfectly boiled.  
A. This receipt (without a name) was borrowed from Nicholaus Flo● entinus; the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb, and Spike, besides the order inverted, whose own approbation of it runs in these terms.  
A. It cleanseth the body of venomous humours, as Boyles, Carbuncles and the like, it prevails in pestilential Fevers, it strengthens the heart and nutritive virtue, purgeth by stool and urine, it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat and provokes sleep.  
A. But by my Author's leave, I never yet accounted purges to be proper physic in Pestilential Fevers; this I believe, the Syrup cleanseth the liver well, and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack melancholy.   

Syrupus Diasereos. Andernacus.  
Take of Endive and Succory of each a handful, Maidenhair both white and black, Agrimony, Cetrach, Hops, Fumitory of each half a handful, winter Cherries, Doddar, of each three drachms, The roots of Smalledg, Fennel, Sparagus, of each half an ounce, Polipodium of the Oak an ounce, Liquoris six drachms, the seeds of Bastard Safiron, or Carthamus an ounce, the four greater cold seeds of each two drachms, French Barley a pugil, of seeds of Endive, and Succory, of each a drachm and an half, Raisins of the sun an ounce, Damask Prunes twenty, The flowers of borage, bugloss, Violets, of each a pugil, Myrobalans' Citrons and Chebs, of each an ounce and an half, boil them all in 
a we want the terminus a quo, unless we be as wise as Angels: And the 1 Author hath 't also in the very same words. Howsoever if you boil it away but to a pint and an half, & according to their rule, you will not have water enough at the first, to wet all the Simples, they that are used to make Decoctionsknow how to make one for strength, and this receipt is not much in use.  water till the third part be boiled away, then in a pint and half of this decoction infuse all night, Rhubarb two ounces and an half, Agrick, 
o the manner shall be showed in its proper place. a would I could see them, truly if you would have them I doubt yond must go to Arabia for them, where Mesue 〈◊〉.  Trochiscated, an ounce, Senna an ounce and an half, Ginger, Cinnamon, of each a drachm, strain it the second time, and with a pound of the best Sugar, and 3. ounccs of syrup of Roses solutive, boil it gently to a syrup.  
A. It purgeth choler and openeth obstructions in the bowels, kills worms, but let it not be given in fevers.   

Syrup of Epithimum. Mesue.  
Take of Epithimum twenty drachms, Myrobalans' Citrons and Indian, of each 15. drachms, Doddar, Fumitory, of each ten drachms, Time, Calaminth, bugloss, Staechas, Liquoris, Polipodium, Agrick, Myrobalans Emblicks and Belliricks, of each six drachms, red Roses, sweet Fennel seeds and Annis seeds, of each two drachms and an half, 
a would I could see them, truly if you would have them I doubt you must go to Arabioa for them, where Mesuedwel●t.  sweet Prunes 20. Raisins of the sun the stones picked out, four ounces, Tamarinds two ounces and an half, after they have been infused 24. honrs, boil them in ten pints of water till four pints be consumed, then let it be strained, and ad to the decoction, white Sugar five pounds, boil it to a syrup.  
A. It is best to put in the Doddar, Stoechas and Agrick, towards the latter end of the decoction.  
A. This receipt was Mesue's only in stead of five pound of sugar, Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa (the making of which shall be showed in its proper place) and truly of my opinion the recepts of Mesue are generally the best in all the Dispensatory, because the simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended, they are not made up of a mess of hodg-podg as many others are, but to the purpose.  
A. It purgeth melancholy and other humours, it strengthens the stomach and liver, cleanseth the body of addust choler and addust blood, as also of salt humours, and helps diseases proceeding from these, as scabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, leprosy etc. and the truth is I like it the better for its gentleness, for I never fancied violent medicines in melancholy diseases.   

Syrup of Eupatorium (or Maudlin.) Mesue.  
Take of the roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Succory, of each two ounces, Liquoris, Schaenanth, Dodder, Wormwood, Roses, of each six drachms, Maiden hair, Bedeguar or instead thereof, the roots of Carduus Mariae, 
a A kind of thorn growing in Egypt and Arabia.  Suchaha or instead thereof the roots of Avens, the flowers or roots of bugloss, Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, Ageratum or Maudlin, of each five drachms, Rhubarb, Mastic of each three drams, Spicknard, Indian leaf, or instead of it put Roman Spike, of each two drachms, boil them in eight pints of water, till the third part be consumed, then strain the decoction, and with four pound of Sugar, clarified juice of Smallage and Endive, of each half a pound, boil it into a syrup.  
A. 'Tis a strange clause, and the stranger because it comes from a College of Physicians, that they should set Bedeguar, or instead thereof Cardnus Mariae, It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us, or rather that which the Physicians of our times use for Bedeguar is a kind of wild Rose, but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was 
* it is that we call our Lady's thistle, having white veins in the leaf, and used to be eaten in the spring time.  Cardnus Mariae, and they knew well enough Mesue whose receipt this was, was an Arabian, truly this is just as though they should say, they would have ten shillings for a visit, or instead of that an angel, there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus-Mariae as between eightpences and two groats.  
A. It amends infirmities of the liver coming of cold, opens obstructions, helps the dropsy and evil state of the body, it extenuates gross humours, strengthens the liver, provokes urine, and is a present succour for hypocondriac melancholy.   

Syrup of Liquoris. Mesue.  
Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces, white Maidenhair an ounce, dried Hyssop half an ounce, Infuse them together for the space of 24. hours in four pints of warm 
* spring-water is better.  rain water, then boil it till half the water be consumed, strain the decoction and clarify it, and with eight ounces of honey, and sixteen ounces of sugar, boil it to a syrup, adding toward the latter end of the decoction, six ounces of red rose water.  
A. It cleanseth the breast and lungs, and helps continual coughs and Pleuresies.   

Syrup of Hyssop. Mesue.  
Take of spring water eight pints, in which boil half an ounce of French. Barley the space of half an hour, then put in the roots of Smallage, Parsley, Fennel, Liquoris, of each ten drachms, let these 
a bruise 〈◊〉 I the roots you boil, take that for a general rule, unless the contrary be mentioned.  boil very gently about a quarter of an hour, then add Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty, Raisins of the sun stoned, an ounce and an half, dry Figs and Dates of each ten; afterwards put in the seeds of Mallows, Quinces, and Gum Traganth, tied up in a linen rag, of each three drachms; afterwards put in of Hyssop meanly dried ten drachms, Maiden hair six drachms, boil it to three pints and having clarified the decoction, with two pound and an half of sugar boil it into a syrup.  
A. It mightily strengthens the 
* by the breast I always mean that which is called Thorax.  breast and lungs, causeth long wind, clear voice, is a good remedy against coughs.   

Syrup of Jujubes. Mesue.  
Take of Jujubes' sixty, Violets, and Mallow seeds of each five drachms, Maiden hair, Liquoris, and French-Barly of each an ounce, the seeds of white Poppies, Mallows, Lettuce, and Quinces, Gum Traganth tied up in a rag, of each three drachms, boil them in six pints of rain or spring water till half be consumed, strain it, and with two pound of sugar boil it into a syrup.  
A. It is a fine cooling syrup, very available in coughs, hoarseness, and pleurefies, ulcers of the lungs, and bladder, as also in all inflammations whatsoever.   

Syrup of Chamepitys: or Iva Arthritica.  
Take of Chamepitys two handfuls, Sage, Rosemary, Darnel, Origanum, Calaminth, wild Mints, Penyroyal, Hyssop, Time, Garden and Wild Rue, Betony, and Mother of Time of each a handful; the roots of 
o a flag of a sweet smell, some take it for Calamus Aromaticus.  Acorus, Aristolochia or Birth wort both long and round, Briony, Dictamni, Gentian, 
c Peucedanum  Hogs-Fennel, Valerian, of each one ounce and an half; the roots of Smallage, Asparagus, Fennel, Parsly, Bruscus of each one ounce, Stoechas, the seeds of Annis, Bishop's weed, Caraway, Fennel, Lovage, 
a Seseli.  Hartwort of each three drachms, Pellitory of Spain half an ounce, Raisins of the Sun three ounces, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, and with honey and sugar of each two pounds, prepare it, and perfume it with Cinnamon, Nutmegs, and Cubebs, according to art.  
A. The author is here concealed, neither do I remember that ever I read it in any other, or ever knew it made, I know not the meaning of that word, sufficient quantity of water, nor how much it must be boiled to, here wants both the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem, as also the quantity of the Aromaticks, so that if it had not been signed by the College, I should have thought it had been a pure piece of nonsense, I would modestly desire the College to look back to their Epistle to the Reader wherein they shall find that they have promised (but how truly performed in this and others, let themselves judge) to appoint a certain measure or weight in all compositions, which ought not to be added to, nor taken from, and their reason is very commendable, viz. that the same medicines in all shops, might have the same operation as being the self same composition ad unguem that so the Physician may know what to prescribe, but why this and others are not so, I dare not say, it was negligence, for than I should offend the College, I dare not say it was forgetfulness, for that ought not to be in a Physician, much less in a College, well then, I know not what to say, and so I leave it.  
A. When I look upon the Simples, me thinks the composition (if it be any thing handsomely made) is opening, expels wind, provokes the terms in women, hastens the afterbirth, and is very profitable for such women as are not well cleansed after labour.   

A Magisterial Syrup against Melancholy.  
Take of the Juice of those sweet scented Apples which we in England usually call Permains a pound and an half, the juice of borage and Bugloss of each nine ounces, choice Senna half a pound, Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds, of each three drachms, Epithimum of 
o by all means let it be brought from thence, & yet some are of opinion that things growing in England are fitter for English bodies, and can give reasons for it too  Crect two ounces, of the best Agrick and Rhubarb of each half an ounce, Ginger, Mace, of each four scruples, Cinnamon, two scruples, Saffron half a drachm.  
Let the Agrick, Senna, seeds, Ginger, Mace, and Epithimum, be grossly 
* viz slice the Agrick, cut the Epithimun, bruise the seeds, ginger and mace.  bruised and cut, and so infused in the juices for the space of 24. hours, then let them boil over a gentle fire till the scum riseth, then strain them through Hypocrates his sleeve, to the decoction ad a pound and an half of white Sugar, boil them according to art, (scumming them all the while) to the consistence of a syrup, whilst it boils, let the Saffron being tied up in a linen rag be often crushed into it, then let the Rhubarb being sliced thin, and the Cinnamon which ought to be ready infused all this while, in white Wine and the juycs of the Apples of each two ounces, and now strongly pressed out, be mixed with it, warm them a little together by the fire for the syrup.  
A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust choler and melancholy, and to resist madness.   

Syrup of Bawm. Fernelius.  
Take of the Roots of Dittany, Cinkfoil, Bettony, 
a one kind of wolsebain.  Doronicum of each half an ounce, The leaves of Bawm, Scabious, Devil's bit, the flowers of both sorts of 
b I suppose Fernelius means Borrag and Bugloss, the natures of which are alike, neither according to the opinion of some, was the name Borrage known to the Ancient but called Bugloss, and indeed it resembles an Neat's tongue (from whence the word was derived) more than that we call Bugloss doth.  Bugloss, and Rosemary, of each a handful, the seeds of Citrons, Sorrel, Fennel, Carduus Benedictus, Bazil, of each three drachms, boil these in four pints of water till two be consumed, strain out the decoction and ad to it three pound of white Sugar, juice of Bawm and Rose water of each half a pound, boil them into a syrup, which perfume with Cinnamon, and yellow Sanders, of each half an ounce.  
A. Always tie perfumes up in a rag, and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boils, and hang them by a string in the vessel, (be it pot or glass) that you keep the syrup in being boiled.  
A. It is an excellent cordial, and strengthens the heart, breast, and stomach, it resisteth melancholy, revives the spirits, is given with good success in fevers, it strengthens the memory, and relieves languishing nature.   

Syrup of Mints, the greater. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of Quinces between sweet and sour, of the juice of Pomegranates between sweet and sour, of each a pound and an half, and when you have mixed both these juices together, infuse in them, for the space of 24. hours, dried mints, a pound and an half, Red Roses dried two ounounces, boil it till half be consumed, then strain it, and with four pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup after it is boiled and cool, perfume it with a drachm of 
* see the making of it among the Troches.  Gallia moschata beaten and tied up in fine linen, and hung by a third into the vessel you keep your syrup in.  
A. The Syrup is in quality binding, yet it comforts the stomach much, helps digestion, stays vomiting, and is (in my opinion) as excellent a remedy against sour or offensive belchings, as any is in the Dispensatory.   

Syrup of Myrtles. Nicholaus.  
Take of Myrtle berries two ounces and an half, Sanders both white & red, Sumach, Balaustines, Barberries, red Roses, of each half an ounce, Medlars half a pound, bruise all these, and having bruised them, boil them in eight pints of water, till half be consumed, strain it, and ad to the decoction, juice of Quinces, and sour Pomegranates, of each six ounces, Sugar three pound, boil it into a syrup according to art.  
A. The syrup is of a very binding yet of a comforting nature, it helps such as spit blood, all fluxes of the belly, or corrosions of the internal parts, It strengthens the retentive faculty, and stops the immoderate flux of the terms in women.   

Syrup of Apples. Fernelius.  
Take of the juice of our Apples commonly called Permains, or Pippins four pound, the juice of both sorts of bugloss, Rose water, the juice of Violet leaves of each a pound, boil them together and clarify them, then with six pound of Sugar, boil them into a syrup.  
A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomaches are overpressed with heat, and may safely be given in fevers, for it rather loosens than binds, it breeds good blood, and isprofitable in hectic fevers, and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart, it quencheth thirst admirably in fevers, and stays hiccoughs.   

Syrupus de Pomis Regis Saporis. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of Apples, two pound, the juice of borage and bugloss of each a pound and an half, Senna two ounces, Annis seeds half an ounce, Saffron a drachm, Infuse the Senna 24. hours in the juices, then let it boil a walm or two, then strain it, and with two pound of Sugar boil it into a syrup, let the Saffron being tied up in a rag, be crushed in the boiling.  
A. Mesue appoints Senna cod, viz. the husk that holds the seeds and the College altered that, and added the Annis seeds, I suppose to correct the Senna, and in so doing they did well.  
A. The Syrup is a pretty cooling purge, and tends to rectify the distempers of the blood, it purgeth choler and melancholy, and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice, It is very gentle, and for that I commend both the Receipt and Mesue the Author of it.   

Syrup of Horehound. Fernelius  
Take of white Horehound fresh, two ounces, Liquoris, Polipodium of the Oak, the roots of Smallage and Fennel, of each half an ounce, white Maidenhair, Origanum, Hyssop, Calaminth, Time, Scabious, Savory, Coltsfoot of each six drachms, the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drams, Raisins of the sun stoned, two ounces, fat Figs ten, boil these altogether in 
c water and honey boiled together, till it be scummed.  Hydromel eight pints, till half be consumed, then when you have strained it, boil it into a syrup with Honey and white Sugar of each two pound, perfume it with an ounce of the roots of Orris Florentine.  
A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungs, and is a fine cleanser, to purge them from thick and putrified phlegm, it helps Phthisicks and coughs, and diseases subject to old men and cold natures.   

Syrup of Rhadishes. Fernelius.  
Take of Radish roots both Garden and 
a I think they mean horse rhadishes. Bruise the roots & seeds, and cut the herbs, else you had almost as good boyla chip.  Wild, of each an ounce the roots of white Saxifrage, Bruscus, Lovage, Fringo Rest harrow, Parsley, Fennel, of each half an ounce, the leaves of Bettony, Burnet, Pennyroyal, the tender Tops of Nettles, Watercresses, Sampire, Maiden hair, of each a handful, Winter cherrics, Jujubes of each twenty, the seeds of Bazil, Burrs, Parsley of Macedonia, Seseli. Caraway, Carrots, Gromwell, the bark of the roots of the bay tree of each two drams, Raisins of the sun stoned, Liquoris, of each six drachms, boil them according to art, in twelve pints of water till eight remain, in which being strained dissolve four pound of Sugar, and two pound of Honey, and boil them into a clear syrup, the which perfume with an ounce of Cinnamon, and half an onnce of Nutmegs.  
A. The syrup is apropriated to the reins and bladder, both which it powerfully cleanseth, it breaketh and bringeth forth the stone, it purgeth the reins of gravel, it helpeth all supression and stopping of urine, as Dysuria, Iscuria etc.   

Syrups of the five opening Roots. Mesue.  
Take of the roots of Smallage, Fennel, Parsley, Brusous, and Asparagus, of each two ounces, 
a bruise them first.  boil them in six pints of spring-water till the third part be consumed, strain it, and with three pound of Sugar, boil it into a syrup, adding eight ounces of white-Wine-Vineger, towards the latter end of the decoction.  
A. It cleanseth and openeth very well, is profitable against obstructions, provokes urine, cleanseth the body of 〈◊〉, and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Fevers.   

A Magisterial syrup of Scabious Compound.  
Take of the roots of Alicampane, and Polipodium of the Oak of each two ounces, infuse them 24. hours in white Wine. Raisins of the sun stoned an ounce, Sebesten 30. Coltfsoot, Lunguewort, Savory, Calaminth, of each a handful and an half, Liquoris half an ounce, one whole leaf of the best Tobacco, the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms, boil them in a sufficient quantity of 
o Aqua mulsa  wine and water, to eight ounces, to which being strained, ad of the juice of Scabious clarified four ounces, white Sugar ten ounces, boil it into a syrup clarified according to art, adding to it twenty drops of 
* have a little patience and you shall be taught, not only the way to make it, but also the virtues of it, which are not a few.  oil of Sulphur.  
A. It is a cleansing syrup, apropriated to the breast and lungs, when you perceive them oppressed by phlegm cruditiesor stops, here's your remedy.   

Syrup of Hartstongue. Fernelius.  
Take of Polypodium of the Oak, the roots of both sorts of bugloss, bark of Cappar roots, bark of Tamaris, of each two ounces, Hartstongue three handfuls, Hops, Doddar, Maidenhair, Bawm of each two handfuls, boil them in nine pints of water, till there remains but five, strain it, clarify it, and with four pound of white Sugar boil it into a syrup.  
A. It helps stops of melancholy, opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, and is profitable against splenetic evils, and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the rickets, or livergrown.   

Syrup of Stoechas. Mesue.  
Take of the flowers of Stoechas four ounces, Time, Calaminth, Origanum, of each an ounce and an half, Sage, Bettony, Rosemary flowers, of each half an ounce, the seeds of Rue, Peony, and Fennel of each three drachms, boil them in ten pints of water, till half be consumed, strain it, and boil the decoction into a syrup, with Honey and Sugar of each two pound, perfume it with Cinnamon, Ginger, and Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms, tied up in a thin rag, and hung into the Syrup.  
A. This receipt looks like Mesue, because the Simples are composed with such harmony. I confess I have found in his works one or two syrups of this name, but not this same composition, yet am I willing to think it his, not so much because the College saith it, as because I can judge of the tree by the fruit.  
A. Surely, surely, was this receipt penned against cold infirmities of the brain, Spinalis Medulla and their Handmaids, (or rather Officers) the nerves, helps both sense and motion annoyed by cold or melancholy, I am kerbed for being so large, therefore in general, you (if you try it) shall find it an admirable remedy, against palsies, or tremble of the limbs, convulsions, cramps, falling-sickness, and all other infirmities of the brain, arising from cold, moisture or melancholy, and the composition is husbanded with such discreation, and moderation, that without all question, it was distilled from the brain of a Mesue.   

Syrup of Comfry. Fernelius.  
Take of the roots and branches, both of the greater and lesser 
* see the simples if at any time you be put to a nonplus about them in the Compositions.  Comfry, of each three handfuls, red Roses, Bettony, Plantain, Burnet, Knot grass, Scabious, Coltsfoot, of each two handfuls, let the joice be pressed from them all, being fresh and green, and well 
o else you had as good press a log of wood  beaten, boil it away to three pound, scumming it well; and with two pound and an half of Sugar, boil it to a syrup.  
A. Were it not for fear my book would grow bigger than I would willingly have it, I could easily prove, that the syrup would be far better, if the juices were only clarified, and not boiled at all, but with their double weight in sugar, melted only into a syrup.  
A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises, excoriations, vomitings, spittings or piffing of blood, it unites broken bones, helps ruptures, and stops the terms in women.   

A Cordial syrup or Julep. Norimberg.  
Take of Rhenish wine a quart, Rose water two ounces and an half, Cloves two scruples, Cinnamon half a drachm, Ginger two scruples, of the best Sugar three onnces and an half, boil it to the consistence of a Julep, which perfume with three grains of Ambergris, and one grain of musk.  
A. He that hath read thus far in this book, and doth not know he must first boil the Simples in the wine and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar, is a man that in my opinion hath not wit enough to be taught to make up a medicine.  
A. If you would have this Julep keep long, you may put in more Sugar, and yet if close stopped, it will not easily corrupt, because it is made up only of wine, indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of Sugar according to the 
* that latitude may be given safely in all compositions.  palate of him that takes it.  
A. It restoreth such as are in consumptions, comforts the heart, cherisheth drooping spirits, and is of an opening quality, thereby carrying away those vapours which might otherwise annoy the brain.    

SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY, AND VINEGAR AND HONEY.  

Diacaryon, Or Dianucum. Galen.  
Take of the juice of 
* before the shells be hard.  green Walnuts, two pound, clarify it, and with a pound of Honey boil it into a syrup.  
A. It is an excellent preservative in pestilential times.   

Diacodium. Galen.  
Take of the heads of white Poppies, neither too green nor too ripe, by number twenty, rain or spring water three pints, infuse them twenty four hours, then boil them till the 
a if your eyes be in your head they will teach youthat.  virtue be out of the heads, then strain it, and with two pound of Honey boil it to the consistence of a syrup, some ad to it, Sapa, two pound, juice of Liquoris two ounces.  
A. It works the same effects with the former syrups of Poppy.   

Diamoron. Nicholaus.  
Take of the juice of Mulberries, and Blackberries, neither of them being fully ripe, of each a pound and an half, boil them with two pound of Honey, over a gentle fire, into a syrup.  
A. It is vulgarly known to be good for sore mouths, as also to cool inflammations there.   

Honey of Rosemary flowers. Mesue.  
Take of Rosemary flowers a pound, clarified Honey three pound, put them together in a glass that hath not a very wide mouth, set them in the Sun to digest, and being digested keep it for your use.  
A. It hath the same virtues with Rosemary flowers, to which I refer you, only by reason of the honey it may be somewhat cleansing.   

Honey of Mercury.  
Take of the juice of Herb Mercury, three pound, with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup.  
A. It is used as an Emollient in Clysters.   

Honey of Raisins. Nicholaus.  
Take of Raisins of the Sun stoned two pounds, infuse them 24. hours in fix pints of warm water, then boil them till half the water be consumed, strain them, and with two pound of Hony boil it into a syrup.  
A. It is a pretty pleasing medicine for such as are in consumptions, and are bound in body.   

Honey of Roses Common. Mesue  
Take of red Rose buds, picked, two pound, Honey fix pound, digest them in the sun, like the Honey of Rosemary flowers.   

Honey of Roses. Nicholaus.  
Take of the best Honey clarified, ten pounds, the Juice of fresh red Roses one pound, put them in a pan, over the fire, and when they begin to boil, ad four pound of fresh red Roses, the whites being cut off, let it boil till the juice be consumed; continually stirring it, and so keep it for your use, being strained.  
A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth.   

Honey Roses Solutive.  
Take of the infusion of Damask Roses, (as you have formerly been showed to make it) five pounds, clarified Honey four pounds, boil it into the consistence of a syrup.  
A. It is used as a laxative in Clysters, and some Chyrurgians use it to cleanse wounds.  
In the same manner may be prepared Honey of red Roses.  
Honey of Violets is made in the same manner.   

Oximel Simple. Mesue.  
Take of the best clarified honey three pound, pure water, and of the best Vinegar of each two pound, boil them into the consistence of a syrup.  
A. Your best way is to boil the water and honey first into a syrup, and 
a Observe, that the later it be before you add the vinegar to any syrup, the sourer will it be, so may you please yourself & not offend the College for they give you latitude enough.  add the Vinegar afterwards, and then boil it again into a syrup.  
A. It cuts phlegm, and is a good preparative before a vomit.   

Oximel Compound. Mesue.  
Take of the 
o viz. Only throw away the hard pith in the middle and so you ought to do every time you use the roots.  bark of the roots of Fennel, Smallage, Parsley Bruscus, Asparagus of each two ounces, The seeds of Smallage, Parsley, Fennel, Annis of each one ounce, and with six pound of water, one pound and an half of vinegar, and three pound of Honey, make it into a syrup.  
A. First, having bruised the roots and seeds, boil them in the water till half be consumed, then strain it and add the honey, and when it is almost boiled enough, add the vinegar.  
A. It cuts thick and gross humours, and cleanseth the body of them, it opens the stops both of the liver and spleen, it purgeth the reins, provokes urine and sweat.   

Heleborated Oximel the greater. Gesner.  
Take of Rue, true 
z it differs a little from our ordinary Garden time: an Herbal will show you the difference.  Time, Dittany of Crect, Hyssop, Penyroyal, Horehound, Carduus Benedictus, the roots of Spicknard Celtic without leaves, the inner bark of Elders, of each a handful, Mountain 
o Calaminthacattaria.  Nepp, two pugils, The seeds of Annis, Fennel, Basil, Roman Nettles, Dill, of each two drachmas; the roots of Angelica, marsh Mallows, Aron, Squils' 
a you shall be taught how to prepare them in its proper place.  prepared, Aristolochiah or Birth wort, long, round, and climbing, Turpeth, 
o whether this Orris be English or of that country where Gesner lived, is some question.  our Orris, Costus smelling like Violets, or else Zedoary, Polypodium, Lemmon pills, of each an ounce, of the strings of the roots of Black Hellebore, 
b Esula or Tythymal, in sussex we call it Spurg, and so I english it  Spurge, of each two drachms, the bark of the root of white Hellebore half an ounce, Agrick two drachms, 
c and so you must both the Hellebores also, or else you had as good put in a rush.  which you must put in towards the latter end of the decoction, let all of them being dried and bruised be infused in eight pints of Posca, (viz. equal parts of water and vinegar) Sapa, two ounces, either in the Sun or in a Furnace, either in a glass or earthen vessel, then boil it either in an earthen or stone vessel, till almost half be consumed, strain it out but gently, and ad to it honey roses, in which two ounces of Citron pills have been infused, a pound and an half, then boil it till the Posca be consumed. and so it come to the body of a syrup, the which perfume with Cloves, Saffron, Ginger, Galanga, and Mace of each a a drachm, tied in a rag, keep it either in a glass or a pot for your use.  
A. It is such a mess of altogether, that a man scarce knows what to do with it, here are many Simples very cordial, many provoke the terms, some purge gently, some violently, and some cause vomiting; being all put together I verily think (if warily given) it may be a fit purge in some cases, for madness coming of melancholy, provided they be not Phrenitick, or as the vulgar say frantic, for then purges are not fitting.   

Oximel Julianizans.  
Take of the bark of Cappar roots, Orris roots, the roots of Fennel, Parsly, Bruscus, Succory, Asparagus, Cyperus, of each half an ounce, the leaves of Hartstongue, Schoenanth, Tamaris, of each a handful, sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce, 
o first bruise the roots.  first infuse-them, and then boil them, in three pints of sharp Posca to a pint and an half, which boil into the body of a syrup, with Honey and course 
a Saccharum dispumarum, it may be they mean Molossus, viz. that which the vulgar call Treacle.  Sugar of each half a pound.  
Posca is made of water and vinegar, and is either more or less sharp according to the intention of the Physician.  
A. This medicine is very opening, very good against hypocondriac Melancholy, and as fit a medicine as can be for that disease in Children called the Rickets.   

Oximel of Squils' Simple. Nicholaus.  
Take of clarified Honey three pound, Vinegar of Squils' two pound, boil them into a syrup according to art.  
A. They say they borrowed this receipt of Nicholaus, but of what Nicholaus I know not, the self same receipt is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this, It cuts and divides humours that are tough and viscus, and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humours, and helps sour belchings.  
A. View the Vinegar of Squils' and then your reason will tell you this is as wholesome and somewhat more toothsome.   

Democritus his Vinegar of Squills. Mesue  
Take of Origanum, dried Hyssop, Time, Loyage, Cardamons Stoechas of each five drachms, boil them in three pints of water till two of them be consumed, strain it, and with two pound of honey, half a pound of honey of Raisins, juice of Briony five ounces, Vinegar of Squils' a pound and an half, Boyl it into a syrup, always scumming it.  
A. Mesue saith this is good against the falling sickness, Megrim, headache, vertigo, or swimming in the head, and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are, I believe it is, it helps the lungs obstructed by humours, and is good for women not well cleansed after labour, it opens the passage of the womb.   

Honey of Anacardium. Azaravius.  
Take of Anacardia or Beans of Malacca, 
b where shall we in England get such? out of question the dried ones are far more hot and worse the the green.  fresh, bruise them, and boil them in water till a kind of radish substance like honey swim at top, take off that, and keep it for your use.  
A. See the Fruit.   

Honey of Emblicks. August.  
Take sifty Emblick Myrobalans, bruise them and boil them in three pints of water till two be consumed, strain it, and with the like weight of honey boil it into a syrup.  
A. It is a fine gentle purger both of phlegm and melancholy, it strengthens the brain and nerves, and senses both internal and external, helps trembling of the heart, stays vomiting, provokes appetite.    

ROB OR SAPA AND IVYCES  

A. ROB is something an uncouth word, and happily formidable to the Ignorant Countryman, and therefore in the first place, I will explain the word.  
A. 1. Rob or Sapa, is the juices of a fruit, made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the fire, that so it is capable of being kept safe from putrefaction.  
A. 2. It's use was first invented for diseases in the mouth, (however or for whatsoever it is used now, it matters not.)  
A. 3. It it usually made, in respect of body, something thicker than new honey.  
A. 4. It may be kept about a year, little more or less.   

Simple Rob or Sapa.  
Take twelve pints of new White-Wine, boil it over a gentle fire, till but four remain, or else till it be of the thickness of honey, keep it either in a glass or in an earthen pot glazed.  
A. When ever you read the word Rob or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory, simply quoted in any medicine, without any relation of what it should be made, this is that you ought to use.   

Rob of Barberries.  
Take of the juice of Barberries, well strained, eight pound boil it with a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey, and so lay it up in a glass or earthen vessel, you may also prepare it with Sugar, by adding a pound of Sugar, to every pound of Juice, and so boiling it to the thickness of Honey.  
A. It quencheth thirst, closeth the mouth of the stomach, thereby staying vomiting, and belching, it strengthens stomaches weakened by heat, and procures appetite.   

Rob of Cornels.  
Take of the juice of Cornels, two pound, 
a if these be boiled with sugar, I would know but one yea the least difference between it and a syrup, if none, then if you please it shall run thus, a syrup called Rob of Cornels.  Sugar a pound and an half, boil it to the consistence of Honey.  
A. Of these Cornel trees, are two sorts, male and female, the fruit of the male Cornel or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used, for the female is that which is called Dogberry, in the North country they call it Gatter-wood, and we in Sussex Dog-wood, I suppose because the berries will make Dogs mad as some hold, also it is very unwholesome wood, specially for such as have been bitten by mad dogs.  
A. The fruit of male Cornel, binds exceedingly, and is therefore good in fluxes, bloody fluxes, and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women.   

Rob of Quinces.  
Take six pound of the juice of Quinces clarified, boil it till two 
o oh Heavens! was ever the like seen! two parts of how many? to that I must write Ignoramus.  parts be consumed, adding to it two pound of Sugar, boil it to the thickness of Honey, or you may prepare it without Sugar.  
A. Its effects are the same with the former, only I suppose it to be more cordial, and not so cool, but more strengthening to the stomach.  
A Rob of the juice of 
a I know not how better to translate sogeneral a word as prunum,  sour plums is made in the same manner as Rob of Quinces.   

Rob of English Currants.  
It is prepared as Rob of Barberries.  
But that it may be well clarified, first heat it, then let it stand and grow clear, and use only what is clear.  
A. The effects are the same with that of Barberries.   

Juice of Sloes which is used for Acacia.  
Take of the juice of sloes, clarify it, with the gentle heat of a bath, adduce it to its just thickness.  
A. It stops fluxes of the belly.  
The juices of wormwood, 
a Eupatorium  Maudlin, Fumitory, and other herbs, are made of the herbs when they are tender, not too rank, Beaten and pressed, clarified, and then boiled to their due height.  
A. The virtue is the same with the herbs, only here is diversity of ways, to please diversity of palates.   

Juice of Liquoris.  
Take of the roots of green Liquoris, well scraped and well bruised, infuse them in so much spring water that the water may over top them the breadth of two or three fingers, for three days, then boil them a little and strain them, then boil the decocton to a due thickness, and make it into what form you please.  
A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs colds, etc. and a strengthener of the lungs.   


o an Arabic word, and in English is plain Juice.  Miva of Quinces. Mesue  
Take of the juice of Quinces clarified twelve pound boil it till half be consumed, then add to it five pints of old white Wine, boil it over a gentle fire often scumming it, till the third part be consumed, then let it cool, then strain it, and with three pound of Sugar, boil it to its due thickness.  
A. It is something better for cold stomaches than Rob of Quinces, and less binding, else the effects are the same.    

lohoch's.  

A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few, we will first explain what it is.  
A. The word Lohoch is an Arabic word, called in Greek 〈◊〉; in Latin, Linctus, and signifies a thing to be licked up.  
A. 2. it is in respect of body, something thicker than a syrup, and not so thick as an Electuary.  
A. 3. It's use it was invented for, was against the roughness of the windpipe, diseases, and inflammations of the lungs, difficulty of breathing, colds, coughs etc.  
A. 4. It's manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick, bruised at end, to take up some and retain it in the mouth, till it melt of its own accord.   

Lohoch of Coleworts Gordonius.  
Take a pound of the juice of Coleworts, clarified, Saffron three drachms, clarified Honey and Sugar of each half a pound, make of them a Lohoch, according to art.  
A. It helps hoarseness, and loss of voice, easeth surfeits, and headache coming of drunkenuess, and opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, and therefore is good for that disease in children which women call the Rickets.   

Lohoch of Pappies. Mesue  
Take of 
o I suppose the seeds: It is confessed Mesue hath it word forword as it is here.  white Poppies twenty five drachms, sweet Almonds, Pinenuts, Gum Arabic, and Traganth, juice of Liquoris of each ten drachms, white Starch three drachms, the seeds of Purslain, Lettuce, Quinces of each half an ounce, Saffron one drachm, 
a have a special care they be nor black ones.  white Penidies four ounces, syrup of Poppies the lesser composition, (which you may find page 112) three pounds, cut them and bruise them all, and with the syrup make them into a Lohoch, according to art.  
A. It helps coughs and cathars proceeding of hot and sharp rheum, it easeth pains in the stomach coming of heat, Pleuresies, and 
a the same that we call Consumption of the lungs.  Phthisicks, and provokes sleep.   

Lohoch of Raisins. Augustan.  
Take of male peony roots, half an ounce, Hyssop, Bawm, Hartstongue or Cetrach of each half a handful, Liquoris half an ounce, boil them in a sufficient quantity of 
a or springwater, else in a dry summer you cannotget the Lohoch if it were to save your life.  rain water, strain it strongly, and add a pound of Raisins of the sun stoned and well beaten in a 〈◊〉, boil it again and strain it strongly, and with a pound of Sugar boil the decoction into a Lohoch.  
A. Although this medicine be seldom in use with us in England, yet by report of Foreign Physicians, it is very prevalent, both against coughs, consumptions of the lungs, and other vices of the breast, and is usually given to children for such diseases, as also for the 
o the difference of which two diseases is not much.  convulsions and falling-sickness, and indeed the Simples testify no less.   

Lohoch of Pinenuts. Mesue.  
Take of Pinenuts thirty drachms, sweet Almonds, HasselNut-kernels roasted, Gum Traganth, and Arabic, powder of Liquoris, and juice of Liquoris, white Starch, Maidenhair, Orris roots, of each half an ounce, of the pulp of Dates, thirty five drachms, Bitter Almonds three drachms, Honey of Raisins, white Sugar Candy, fresh Butter of each four ounces, of the best Honey three pound, or else so much as is sufficient, let the things which are to be dissolved be dissolved in a sufficient quantity of the decoction of Maidenhair, and the rest added according to art that they may be made into a Lohoch.  
A. The powder of Liquoris is only added by the College, and the manner of making of it up, both which are useful.  
A. The medicine is excellent for continual coughs, and difficulty of breathing, it succours such as as are 
o Asthma is a disease when thick tough phlegm sticks in the lappets of the lungs.  Asthmatick for it cuts and attenuates tough humours in the breast.   

Lohoch of Fox lungs. Mesue.  
Take of Fox lungs prepared, juice of Liquoris, Maidenhair, Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds of each an ounce, Sugar clarified with Coltsfoot water fifteen ounces, the things being beaten which may be beaten, and brought into very fine powder, let them be made into a Lohoch, with the Sugar.  
A. Mesue appoints sixteen ounces of Honey, and no Sugar nor uncertain quantity of Coltsfoot water, and reason itself will tell you Honey is most cleansing.  
A. It cleanseth and uniteth ulcers in the lungs and breast and is a present remedy in 
a Phtisick is an ulceration of the lungs, and the very same disease usually called a consumption of the lungs  Phtisicks.   

Lahoch sanum et expertum. Mesue.  
Take of Cinnamon, dry Hyssop, Liquoris of each half an ounce, Jujubes, Sebestens, of each thirty, Raisins of the sun stoned, 
c I take those we call bluefigs to be intended by the College, but not by Mesue for he apoints fat figs.  dry Figs of each two ounces, fat Dates two ounces, Lin seed, Foenugraeck seed of each five drachms, Maidenhair, a handful, Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, 
* those which we in Sussex call flower-de-luce.  Orris roots, Calaminth of each half an ounce, boil them according to art in four pints of clear water, till half be consumed, strain it, and with two pound of white Sugar boil the decoction to a syrup, afterward sprinkle in these following things being cut and beaten small, 
a viz. the kernels only, nonhusks and all, for that would make a composition sooner to choke than to help a man's throat.  Pinenuts, sweet Almonds, liquoris, Gum traganth, and Arabic, white Starch of each three drachms, Orris roots two drachms, stir them all about diligently and swiftly till it looks white.  
A. Only Mesue appoints one drachm less of Lin-seeds, and whereas they appoint white Sugar, he appoints Penids, else the receipt is verbatim.  
A. It succours the breast, lungs, throat, and 
o or windpipe  Trachaea 
b blanched.   
Arteria oppressed by cold, it restores the voice lost by reason of cold, and attenuates thick and gross humours in the breast and lungs.   

Eclegma of Squils'. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of Squils' and Honey, both of them clarified of each two pound, boil them together according to art to the consistence of honey.  
A. How the name of Mesue came to be obtruded upon this receipt I know not, this I am confident of, Galen was the Author of it, neither is it probable the College would have given it the name of Eclegma but Lohoch, had it been the receipt of an Arabian; neither can it be the Printers faule, for he vapours at the latter end of the Book, that he hath made none, and he hath done it in English that the vulgar may understand THAT in the book though nothing else.  
A. For the Virtues of it, see Vinegar of Squils', and Oximel of Squils', only this is more mild and not so harsh to the throat, because it hath no vinegar in it, and therefore is far more fitting for Asthmaes, and such as are troubled with difficulty of breathing, it cuts and carries away humours from the breast be they thick or thin, and wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals, and easeth pains in the breast; and for this I quote the Authority of Galen, always take this as a general Aphorism in physic, Sour things are offensive to the mind-pipe.    

PRESERVES  
THere are condited or preserved with sugar diligently clarified according to art,  
The stalks of Angelica, Artichokes, Lettuce:  
The 
o or pills.  barks of Oranges, Cinnamon, Citrons, 
a or Lignum vitae, such as they make Bowls of the wood of.  Guajacum, Lemmons.  
The flowers of Oranges, borage, Citrons, Broom-buds, Prim-roses, Rosemary, Roses.  
The fruits of Almonds, Barberries, Capers, Cloves, Cherries, Cornels, Citrons, Quinces, Apricocks, Peaches, Apples, Medlars, all the five sorts of Myrobalans, Hassel-Nuts, Walnuts, Nutmegs, Raisins of the Sun, Pine-nuts, Fistick-Nuts, Olives, Pepper in the branch from India, Plums garden and wild, Pears, Grapes.  
The pnlp of Cassia, Citrons, Guords, Quinces.  
The roots of Acorus, Calamus aromaticus, Galanga, Angelica, borage, Bugloss, Succory, Sampire, Alicampane, Eringo, Burnet, Satyrion, Artichoak, Skirrets, Comfry the greater, Ginger, Zedoary.  
Others, both young Branches and Seeds are preserved besides these.  
The way or manner of conditing or preserving, is this,  

* I am of opinion that it you would learn to preserve neatly, your best way is to learn of a Consumaker.  Such as are bitter in taste or hard in substance, let them be steeped a while in clear Lys, made of wood-ashes, afterwards in warm spring water till their bitterness be taken away, or they begin to be tender, then boil them in water and sugar to a syrup, and keep them in the syrup, either in a glass or stone pot glazed, and you may perfume them with Musk and Amber grease if you please.  
Those that are soft and not so bitter; need no lie to be infused in, but only boil them gently that they may drink in the sugar, and preserve them in the like manner.  
A. I am of opinion that this art of preserving was first invented for Delicacy sake, yet is it of great moment in physic, for hereby such simples as before were loathed by the stomach, are made delicious and pleasing; also many simples are better kept by far this way.  
A. For the Virtues of them, see the simples.   

CONSERVES AND SUGARS, OF HERBS, LEAVES, FLOWERS, AND FRUITS.  
Conserveses of Wormwood, Sorrel, Woodsorrel, Maiden 
* ay suppose they mean the flowers.  hair, Oranges, Bettony, borage, Bugloss, Carduus Benedictus, Centaury, Ceterach, Germander, Clove Gillyflowers, Succory, Scurvigrass, Comfry the greater Cynosbatus, 
c some hold it to be white-thorn, of which judgement are Tragus & Dodonenus: others hold it to be sweet-Bryar. Truly I know no other way to know what the College intent by it, than to ask them.  Citraria, Elicampane, Eyebright, Fumitory, Brooms not quite open, Pomegranates, white Lilies, Lilies of the valley, Mallows, Water lilies, Peaches, Primroses, 
o Prunella  Self heal, Roses Red and Damask, Rosemary flowers, Sage, Elder, Scabious, Stoechas, Linetree, Coltsfoot, Violets, Goats rue, Hedge Hyssop, common Hyssop, Marjoram, Bawm, Mints, Rue, Savory, Scordium, Comfry.  
A. Thus have I given you the Colleges Conserves, (or rather their confusion) in English, wherein they have made such a chaos of herbs and flowers, that to unweave it, would unweave the Rete mirabile of my brain, the truth is I want time, only take notice of the Catalogue of Simples, and there 
e I know not what they mean by it, unless they mean Bawm.  you may see whether the herb or flower be most in use, as also what the use of it is, A word is enough to a wise man. I proceed.  
Let the leaves and flowers be 
i not cut as they prescribe  beaten very small, and to every, pound of them, add three pound of white Sugar, and beat them well together into a conserve.  
But Barberries, [Prunella] and other sour fruits are not made into conserveses after this manner, for example  
Take of Barberries as many as you will, let them boil so long in a sufficient quantity of clear water till the pulp may be drawn out, by rubbing it through a sieve, Then take six pounds of this same pulp thus strained, which put in an earthen pan well glazed, (because if you do it in brass it will retain an ill-favoured smatch of the metal) boil away the watery moisture of them, with a gentle fire, stirring it about continually 
i six pound will serve the turn.  with a stick, lest the juice burn, then mix it with ten pound of white Sugar according to art, boiling it to its due consistence.  
A. [Prunella] indeed and in truth is selfheal, not Sloes, as I am confident they intent it here, because they place it among the sour juices, I was jealous they intended it so before, therefore when I translated it selfheal, I set the word Prunella in the margin, Is it possible so many grave heads should so grossly mistake an herb for the fruit of a tree, Prunella for Prunellus, The Printer hath vindicated himself from so foul an Error, in the Latter end of their Dispensatory, it remains in the College, to do the like, it being a thing if not very preposterous, I am sure extremely dangerous, to prescribe one thing for another in Physic, If they can but produce an Author, An Author though from Utopia where ever Prunella was taken for a Slow or Sloe-tree, I shall be content to bear the blame myself.  
A. The virtues of all Conserves are the same with the herbs, flowers, or fruits whereof they are made, and they are thus mixed with Sugar, 1. to preserve them the longer, 2. that they may be more pleasing to the palate.  

Lozenges of Poppies called Diacodium Solidum, or Tabulatum.  
Take twenty white Poppy heads of a mean bigness, nei●●●● too green nor too ripe, spring-water three pints, infuse them four and twenty hours, then boil them till the virtue is out of the heads, then strain them out, and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar, boil the liquor to that hardness, that you may make Lozenges of it.  
A. This receipt is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physicians, though the College (through forgetfulness or something else) hide it, the virtues are the same with the common Diacodium, viz. to provoke sleep and help thin rewms in the head etc.   

Manus Christi Simple and Pearled.  
Take of the best Sugar a pound, Damask-rose-water half a pint, boil them together according to art, to that thickness that it may be made into Lozenges, and if toward the latter end of the decoctiom, you add half an ounce of Pearls prepared in powder, together with eight or ten leaves of gold, it will be Manus Christi with pearls.  
A. It is naturally cooling, apropriated to the heart, it restores lost strength, takes away burning fevers, and false imaginations, (I mean that with pearls, for that without Pearls is ridiculous) it hath the same virtue's Pearls have.   

Manus Christi against Worms.  
Take of Rhubarb four scruples, Agrick 
* you shall be taught hereafter how to make it.  Trochiscated, Corallina, burnt Hartshorn, Dittany of Crect, Wormseed, Sorrelseed, of each a scruple, Cinnamon, Zedoary, Cloves, Saffron, of each half a Scruple, white Sugar a pound, dissolve the Sugar in four ounces of Wormwood water, and one ounce of Wormwood Wine, and one spoonful of Cinnamon Water, and then with the forenamed powders make it into Lozenges.  
A. The title shows you the virtues of it, for my part I think in penning of it, they made a long Harvest of a little Corn.   

Penidies.  
Are made of Sugar and Barley water, boiled in such a proportion, and with such an art, that it will not stick to ones fingers, and yet one may draw it (like birdlime) into what form one will.  
A. I remember country people were wont to take them for coughs, and they are sometimes used in other compositions.   

Confection of Frankincense. Norimberg.  
Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce. Nutmegs white Frankincense of each three drachms, Liquoris, Mastich, of each two drachms, Cubebs, Hartshorn prepared of each one drachm, Conserves of red Roses an ounce, with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar, make it into a Confection, in bits of two drachms weight.  
A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor virtues of this receipt.   

Sugar of Roses.  
Take of red Rose flowers not fully open, an ounce, cut off the white from them, then dry them in the shadow, afterwards beat them in a 
o and why will not a brassemorter serve the turn.  stone mortar, and with twelve ounces of the best Sugar dissolved in red Rose water, boil it according to 
c and this is but a slovenly art take my word for it.  art till the water be consumed, then put the mass out upon a marble stone, and make it into what form you please, there be some that whilst it is boiling ad to it four ounces of Conserve of red Roses, diligently mixing them together, by which means the Sugar will be both of the better colour, and the pleasanter taste.  
A. I am verily persuaded that the College appoint this to be beaten in a stone mortar for fear a brass mortar should take away the colour of the Roses, which is but the Embryo of an ignorant brain, it is the boiling of it takes away the colour and nothing else, if you do but boil the rose water and Sugar to a sufficient height before you put in the Roses in powder, the Sugar will be of colour good enough never fear it, without the addition of conserveses to it.  
A. As for the virtues of this, it strengthens weak stomaches weak hearts and weak brains, restores such as are in consumptions, restores lost strength, stays fluxes, easeth pains in the head, ears, & eyes, helps spitting, vomiting & pissing of blood.  
After the same manner is made Sugar of Violets, Bugloss, Maiden hair, Succory, Orris Florentine, Elicampane roots, Comfry and other things.    

SPECIES OR POWDERS  
A. GIve me leave to premise three or four things before come to the matter.  

A. 1. Powders are called by the Arabians Suffuf and Alkool: 'tis strange the College inserted not these two strange names, to puzzle the brains of the unlearned and make them believe wonders.  
A. 2. I know not well what English name to give the word [Species] only thus, the ancients used the word for such Powders as were ready prepared for an Electuary but not yet mixed with any liquid substance, but they called those [Powders] which were always kept dry for use.  
A. 3. I would desire such as intend to take the pains themselves to make these powders, that they would make great haste in beating them, lest the strength fly away in vapour, through long keeping them in the air.  
A. 4. That they would sift them through a very fine tiffany, left the powder be too gross and so part of its operation lost.  
A. 5. That they would (in keeping of them) stop them very close in a glass with a narrow mouth, lest the strength fly out in vapours after it is beaten.   

Aromaticum Caryophyllatum. Mesue.  
Take of Cloves seven drachms, Mace, Zedoary, Galanga the lesser, yellow Sanders, troches Diarhodon, Cinnamon, wood of Aloes, Indian Spicknard, long pepper, Cardamons of each a drachm, red Roses four drachms, Gallia moschata, Liquoris of each two drachms, Indian leaf, Cubebs of each two scruples, Ambergris a drachm, Musk half a scruple, white Sugar as much as is sufficient, make a powder of them all being diligently beaten, and with as much syrup of Citrons as is sufficient, you may make it into an Electuary.  
A. It would make a horse break his halter to hear some of their recepts, a boy of seven years old deserves to be whipped if he should transcribe a receipt so scurvily, as the College hath done this, I would fain know of them (if they can tell me) how much this sufficient quantity of Sugar is, or of what use any'at all is amongst the powder, the truth is Mesue appoints the Sugar to help make it up into an Electtuary, and they go and place it amongst the powder, whether there be an Electuary made of it or not.  
A. Again, seeing they vapour that they have taken so much pains in compiling the book, (the greatest part of which was in print above a hundred years before they were born) they might (I say) have taken the pains to have explained Mesue his meaning, viz. what syrup must be used: whether syrup of the juice of Citrons, or of Citron pills, but I shall let that pass as a matter either of ignorance or carlesness in them, out of question it is syrup of Citron pills that Mesue here intended.  
A. This powder strengthens the heart and stomach, helps digestion, expelleth wind, stays vomiting, and cleanseth the stomach of putrified humours.   

Aromaticum Rosatum. Gabriel.  
Take of Red-Roses fifteen drachms, Liquoris seven drams, wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders of each three drachms, Cinnamon five drachms, Cloves, Mace of each two drachms and an half, Gum Arabic and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples, Nutmegs, Cardamons the lesser, Galanga, of each one drachm, Indian Spicknard, Ambergris of each two scruples, Musk one scruple, beat them all into powder according to art, and keep the powder for your use, in a glass or stone pot glazed.  
By reason of the ill taste of the Spicknard you may prepare the powder without it, and so may you any other Cordial powder in which Spicknard is.  
A. It strengthens the brain, heart, and stomach, and all such internal members as help towards concoction, it helps digestion, consumes the watery excrements of the bowels, strengthens such as are pined away by reason of the violence of a disease, and restores such as are in a consumption.   

The lesser Cordial Powder. Fernelius.  
Take of Heart's horn, Unicorns-horn, Pearls, Ivory of each six grains, beat them into fine powder; if you mean to keep it, you may increase the quantity analogically.   

The greater Cordial Powder. Fernelius.  
Take of the roots of Tormentil, Dittany, Clove gillyflowers, Scabious, the seeds of Sorrel, Coriander prepared, Citron, Carduus Benedictus, Endive, Rue of each one dram, of the three sorts of 
* viz. white, red, & yellow.  Sanders, Been white and red, (or if you cannot get them, take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their heads) Roman 
a a kind or wolf-bane,  Doronicum, Cinnamon, Cardamons, Saffron, The flowers of both sorts of 
o viz. borage and Bugloss.  Bugloss, Red-Roses and Water Lilies, wood of Aloes, Mace, of each two scruples, Ivory, Spodium, Bone of a Stag's heart, red Coral, Pearls, Emerald 〈◊〉, Cranate of each one scruple, Raw Silk 
o viz. borage and Bugloss.  torrefied, Bolearmenick, Earth of Lemnos, of each half 
c dried or roasted by the fire.  a drachm; Camphire, Amber grease, Musk, of each six grains, beat them into powder according to art; and with eight times their weight in white sugar, dissolved in Rose water, you may make them into Lozenges, if you please.  
A. Both this and the former powder are apropriated to the heart, (as the titles show) therefore do they strengthen that and the vital spirit, and relieve languishing nature.   

A Powder for such as are bruised by a Fall. The Augustan Physicians.  
Take of 
e a new name for earth of Lemnos.  Terra sigillata 
a Dragon's blood, so called, though it be nothing less, but only the gum of a tree.  Sanguis Draconis, Mummy of each two drachms, Sperma Ceti one drachm, Rhubarb half a drachm, beat them into powder according to art.  
A. You must beat the rest into powder and then add the Sperma Ceti to them afterwards, for if you put the Sperma Coci and the rest altogether, and go to beat them in that fashion, you may as soon beat the mortar into powder, as the Simples. Indeed your best way is to beat them severally, and then mix them altogether, which being done, makes you a gallant medicine for the infirmity specified in the title, a drachm of it being taken in Muskadel, and 〈◊〉 after it.   

Species cordiales Temperatae.  
Take of wood of Aloes and Spodium of each a drachm 
This receipt is borrowed from: Alex. Bened. only the name is absconded & some of the quantities (not considerable) are changed.  Cinnamon, Cloves, bone of a Stag's heart, Angelica roots, both sorts of Been (or in their stead the roots of Avens and Tormentill) of each a drachm and an half, Pearls prepared six drachms, raw silk torrefied, both sorts of Coral of each two drachms, Jacinth, Emerald, Saphir of each half a drachm Saffron a scruple, Ambergris, Musk of each half a drachm, leaves of Gold and Silver of each 
o but how big must they 〈◊〉  ten, make a powder of these according to art. 
a there is nothing 〈◊〉 than that all their powders will keep better in Electuaries than they will in powders, and most part of them were quoted Electuaries by the Authors whence they had them.   
A. The receipt is questionless a great cordial, a great strengthener, both of the heart and brain.   

Diacalaminthes' Simplex. Galen.  
Take of Calaminth of the mountains, Penyroyal, Origanum, The seeds of Macedonian Parsley, common Smallage, Seseli, of each two drachms, the seeds of Parsley, the cops of Time, the seeds of Lovage, black Pepper of each an ounce, beat them into powder according to art, also you may make it into an Electuary, with two pound and an half of white Sugar, dissolved in Rose or Violet water.  
A. It heats and comforts, cold bodies, cuts thick and gross phlegm, provokes urine and the terms in women, I confess this differs something from Galen, but is better at least wise for our bodies in my opinion than his.   

Species Electuarii Diacalaminthes Compositi. Fernelius  
Take of powder of the Electuary called Diacalaminthes' simplex, half an ounce, the leaves of Horehound, Bawm, Margerum, Mugwort, Savin dried, of each one drachm, Cyperus roots, the roots of Maddir and Rue, Mace and Cinnamon of each two scruples, all these being finely beaten and mixed together, may be made into an Electuary, with twelve times their weight in Sugar, dissolved in distilled water of Featherfew.  
A. This seems to be more apropriated to the feminine gender them the former, viz. to bring down the terms in women, to bring away the birth and afterbirth, to purge them after labour, yet is it dangerous for women with child.   

Dianisum. Mesue.  
Take of Annis seeds 2. ounees & an half, Liquoris, Mastich, of each one ounce, the seeds of Caraway and Fennel; Galanga, Mace, Ginger, Cinnamon, of each five drachms, of the three sorts of 
* viz. black, long, & white.  Pepper, Cassia lignea, Calaminth, Pellitory of Spain of each two drachms, Cardamons, Cloves, Cubebs, Indian Spicknard, Saffron of each a drachm and an half, white Sugar five ounces, and with clarified Honey you may make it into an Electuary.  
A. This Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the stomach, and helps the cold infirmities thereof, raw phlegm, wind, continual coughs, and other such diseases coming of cold.   

Species Electuarii Diacymini. Nicholaus  
Take of cummin seeds, infused a natural day in vinegar, one ounce and one scruple, Cinnamon, Cloves, of each two drachms and an half, Galanga, Savory, Calaminth of each one drachm and two scruples, Ginger, black Pepper of each two drachms and five grains, the seeds of Lovage and 
* Bishops-weed.  Ammi of each one drachm and eighteen grains, long pepper a dram, Spicknard, Nutmegs, Cardamons, of each two scruples and an half, beat them and keep them diligently in powder for your use.  
A. It heats the stomach and bowels, expels wind exceedingly, helps the wind colic, helps digestion hindered by cold or wind, is an admirable remedy for wind in the guts, and helps quartan agues.   

Species Electuarii Diagalangae. Mesue.  
Take of Galanga, wood of Aloes of each six drachms, Cloves, Mace, seeds of Lovage of each two drachms, Ginger long and white Pepper, Cinnamon, Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half, Calaminth and Mints dried, Cardamons the greater, Indian Spicknard, the seeds of Smallage, Annis, Fennel, Caraway of each one drachm, beat them into powder according to art, also it may be made into an Electuary with white Sugar, dissolved in Malaga wine, or twelve times the weight of it of clarified honey.  
A. I am afraid twelve times the weight of the Simples is to much by half if not by three parts, Honest Mesue appoints only a sufficient quantity, and quotes it only as an Electuary, which he saith prevails against wind, sour belchings and indigestion, gross humours and cold afflictions of the stomach and liver.   

Species Electuarii De Gemmis frigidi.  
Take of Pearls prepared three drachms, Spodium, Ivory, both sorts of Coral, of each two drachms, the flowers of red Roses a drachm and an half, Jacinth, Saphire, Emerald, Sardine, Granate, Sanders white red and yellow, the flowers of borage and Bugloss, the seeds of sorrel and Bazil, both sorts of Been (for want of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil) of each one drachm, bone of a Stag's heart half a drachm, Leaves of Gold and Silver of each fifteen, make of all a powder according to art, and let it be diligently kept.   

Species Electuarii de Gemmis Calidi. Mesue  
Take of Troches Diarhodon, wood of Aloes of each five drams, white Pearls, Zedoary, Doronicum, Citron pills, Mace, the seeds of Bazil, Amber grease of each 2 drachms, red Coral, white Amber, Ivory of each five scruples, Saphire, Jacinth Sardine, Granate, Emerald, Cinnamon, Galanga, 
* round Zedoary.  Zurumbet of each one drachm and an half, Been of both sorts (or in lieu of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil) Cloves, Ginger, long Pepper, Indian Spicknard, Indian leaf or Celtic Spicknard, Saffron, Cardamons the greater of each a dram, leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples, Musk half a drachm, make them all into a Powder and keep them close stopped from the air.  
A. The truth is both these powders are of too heavy a price for a vulgar man's purse, they help afflictions of the heart, stomach, brain and liver, vain fevers, melancholy, tremble of the heart, and faintings, they help digestion and take away sadness, and because the latter seems to be something hotter than the former, though neither of them exceed in heat or coldness, if you find the body afflicted by cold, you may give the hotter, if feverish the cooler.   

Species Electuarii Diaireos Simplicis. Nicholai  
Take of Orris roots half an ounce, Sugar Candy and Diatragacanthum frigidum of each two drachms, beat them into 
The College made a great cry of a little wool: here's a title as big as the receipt.  powder.  
A. I do not mean the Diatragacanthum frigidum, for that is in powder before, It comforts the breast, is good in colds, coughs, and hoarseness.   

Species Dialaceae. Mesue.  
Take of Gum lacca prepared, Rhubarb, Schoenanthus, of each three drachms, Spicknard, Mastic, juice of Roman Wormwood and 
a Maudlin.  Eupatorium, the seeds of Small age, Ammi, Fennel, Annis, Savin, Bitter Almonds, Myrrh, Costus or Zedoary, the roots of Maddir, Asarabacca, Birthwort long and round, and Gentian, Saffron, Cinnamon, dried Hyssop, Cassia lignea, Bdelium of each a drachm and an half, Pepper, Ginger of each one drachm, make of these a powder according to art.  
A. According to Mesue you ought to dissolve the Myrrh and Bdellium in wine, and together with the Simples, beaten in fine powder make it into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of clarified Honey, the College give you more latitude but all to as little if not less purpose, 〈◊〉 strengthens the stomach and liver, opens obstructions, helps dropsies, yellow Jaundice, provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins and bladder.   

Species Electuarii Diamargariton Calidi. Avicenna.  
Take of Pearls and Pellitory of the wall of each one dram, Ginger, Mastich of each half an ounce, Doronicum, Zedoary, Smallage seeds, both sorts of Cardamons, Nutmegs, Mace of each two drachms, Been of both sorts (if they cannot be procured take the roots of Avens and Tormentil) black and long Pepper of each three drachms, Cinnamon five drachms, beat them into powder and keep them for your use.  
A. Avicenna prescribes this as an Electuary, and so are most of all the Colleges powders prescribed by those by whom they borrowed them as I told you before, and they will keep longer and better in Electuaries than in Powders, but people must be fantastical.  
A. This (quoth Avicenna) is apropriated to women, and in them to diseases incident to their matrix, but his reasons I know not, It is Cordial and heats the stomach.   

Species Electuarii Diamargariton frigidi. Nicholaus  
Take of the four greater cold seeds cleansed, the seeds of Purflain, white Poppies, Endive, Sorrel, Citrons, the three sorts of Sanders, Lignum Aloes, Ginger, the flowers of red Roses, water Lilies, Bugloss, Violets, the berries of Myrtle the bone of a Stag's heart, Ivory, Roman Doronicum, Cinnamon of each a drachm, both sorts of Coral of each half a drachm, Pearls three drachms, Amber grease, Camphire of each 6. grains, Musk two grains, make of them a powder according to art.  
You must observe, that the Poppy seeds and the four greater cold seeds ought not to be added before the powder be appointed for use by the Physician, otherwise they will make the composition sour, and so must you do in other powders in which these seeds are.  
A. Here may you see what a labarinth the College have run themselves into through their fantasticalness, viz. because they would seem to be singular in sailing contrary to wiser Physicians, they run upon two dangerous rocks in this one receipt, 1. It is a costly cordial and not usually above a drachm of it (very seldom half so much) given at one time, and these seeds excepted against in their caution, and upon grounds just enough are not the tenth part of the composition, which (a drachm being prescribed) is but six grains, which six grains must be divided into five equal parts (a nice point) one part for each seed. 2. If this rock were put off, yet then can you not beat them into powder alone because they are so moist.  
A. As for the virtues of it, Authors hold it to be restorative in consumptions, to help such as are in hectic fevers, to restore strength lost, to help coughs, Asthmaes and consumptions of the lungs, and restore such as have laboured long under languishing or pining diseases.   

Species Electuarij Diambrae. Mesue.  
Take of Cinnamon, Doronicum or Zedoary, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Indian leaf, Galanga of each three drachms, Indiand Spicknard, Cardamons both greater and lesser of each one drachm, Ginger a drachm and an half, wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, long pepper of each two drachms, Ambergris a drachm and an half, Musk half a drachm, beat them into powder.  
A. Mesue apropriates this to the head, and saith, it heats and strengthens the brain, causeth mirth, helps concoction, cherrisheth the animal vital and natural spirit, it strengthens the heart and stomach, and resists all cold diseases, and is therefore special good for women and old men.   

Species Electuarij Diamoscu dulcis. Mesue.  
Take of Saffron, Doronicum or Galanga, Zedoary, wood of Aloes, Mace of each two drachms, white Pearls, raw Silk torrefied, Amber, red Coral, Gallia moschata, Bazil of each two drachms and an half, Ginger, Cubebs, Long Pepper of each one drachm and an half; both sorts of Been (or if they be wanting take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their stead) Indian leaf or Cinnamon, Indian Spicknard, Cloves of each a drachm, Musk two scruples, beat them into powder 
* Mesue appoints honey.  according to art; and than if you please you may make it into an Electuary, by adding four times the weight of the whole, in Sugar dissolved in white Wine.  
A. It wonderfully helps cold afflictions of the brain, that come without a fever, melancholy and its attendance, viz. sadness without a cause etc. Vertigo or dissines in the head, Falling-sickness, Palfies, resolution of the Nerves, Convulsions, Heart-qualms, afflictions of the lungs, and difficulty of breathing.   

Species Electuarij Diamoscu amari. Mesue.  
To the former 
o Mesue something altars the proportion but not much  Ingredients in the same proportion add Wormwood, Roses, of each three drachms; the best Aloes washed half an ounce, Cinnamon two drachms and an half, Castorium, Lovage of each one drachm, make of them all a powder.  
A. Besides the virtues of the former, it purgeth the stomach of putrified humours.   

Species Electuarij Diantbon. Nicholaus.  
Take of Rosemary flowers an ounce, red Roses, Violets, Liquoris of each six drachms; Cloves, Indian Spicknard, Nutmegs, Galanga, Cinnamon, Ginger, Zedoary, Mace, wood of Aloes, Cardamons, the seeds of Dill and Annis of each four scruples, beat them all into powder according to art.  
A. It strengthens the heart and helps the passions thereof, it causeth a joyful and cheerful mind, and strengthens such as have been weakened by long sickness, it strengthens cold stomaches, and helps digestion notably.   

Diapenidion. Nicholaus.  
Take of Penidies two ounces, Pine-Nuts, sweet Almonds blanched, white Poppy seeds of each three drachms and one scruple, Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, juice of Liquoris, Gum Traganth, & Arabic, white starch, the four greater cold seeds husked of each a drachm & an half, Camphire seven grains, white Sugar so much as is sufficient, make it into a powder, and with syrup of Violets you may make it up in form of an Electuary.  
A. I could tell Mr. Printer (if I durst be so bold) that he had more tongue than wit, when he made that Apology at the latter end of the Colleges Masterpiece; for at the last sentence of this receipt, here are certain words left out, and amongst them the principal verb, which how gross an Error it is, Ileave to the consideration of every Scholar who is able to translate a piece of Latin into English.  
A. It helps the vices of the breast, coughs, colds, hoarseness and consumptions of the lungs, as also such as spit matter.   

Diarhodon Abbatis. Nicholaus.  
Take of white and red Sanders of each two drachms and an half, Gum Traganth and Arabic, Spodium of each two scruples, Asarabacca, Mastic, Indian Spicknard, Cardamons, Liquoris, Saffron, wood of Aloes, Cloves, Gallia 〈◊〉, Annis-seeds, and sweet Fennel seeds, Cinnamon, Rhubarb, the seeds of Bazil, the stones of Barberries, the seeds of Endive, Purslain, Gourds, Cucumbers, Citruls, Melons, and white Poppies of each a scruple; Pearls, Bones of a Stag's Heart of each half a scruple; Sugar Candy, Red Roses of each an ounce and three drachms; Camphire seven grains, Musk four grains, beat them all into a powder; also with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Rose-water you may form it into an Electuary.  
A. It cools the violent heat of the heart and stomach, as also of the liver, lungs, and spleen, easeth pains in the bowels, and most infirmities coming to the body by reason of heat.   

Diaspoliticum. Galen.  
Take of Cummin seeds prepared, Long-Pepper, dried Rue, of each ounce, salt Niter half an ounce, beat them into powder.  
A. It is an admirable remedy for such whose meat is putrified in their stomaches, it helps cold stomaches, cold bellies and windy.   

Species Electuarii Diatragacanthi frigidi Nicholaus.  
Take of Gum Arabic one ounce and two drachms, Gum Traganth two ounces, white Starch half an ounce, Liquoris, the seeds of Melons, white Poppies, Citruls, Cucumbers, Gourds, of each two drachms, Penidies three ounces, Camphire half a scruple, beat them into powder according to art.  
Also you may make an Electuary of them with a sufficient quantity of syrup of violets; but have a care of what was told you before, Of the cold seeds, (quoth the College.)  
A. If you please to put in the cold seeds (which the Reverend College appoints to be left out till the powder come to be used, and then 'tis impossible to put them in, as I showed before pag. 156.) and so make it up into an Electuary, than I can tell you, the virtues are, It helps the faults of the breast and lungs coming of heat and dryness, it helps consumptions, leaness, inflammations of the receipt, pleuresies etc. hot and dry coughs, roughness of the tongue and jaws; but how to make aught of the receipt as the College have ordered it, belongs to another Oedipus and not to me.   

Species Electuarij Diatrion Piperion. Galeni.  
Take of the 
* viz. long, white, and black.  three sorts of Pepper, of each six drachms and fifteen grains, Annis seeds, Time, Ginger, of each one drachm, beat them into powder, and with Sugar dissolved in Rose-mary-flower-water, or Honey (as the case shall require) it may be made into an Electuary.  
A. It heats the stomach, and expels wind.   

Species Electuarii Diatrionsantalon. Nicholaus.  
Take of the 
* red, white, and yellow.  three sorts of Sanders, red Roses, Sugar Candy of each three drachms, Rhubarb, Spodium, juice of Liquoris, Purslain seeds of each two drachms and fifteen grains white Starch, Gum Arabic and Traganth, the seeds of Melones, Cucumbers, Citruls, Gourds, Endive of each a drachm and an half, Camphire a scruple, beat them all into powder, and with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Rose water you may make it into an Electuary.  
A. It is very profitable against the heat of the stomach and liver, besides it wonderfully helps such as have the yellow Jaundice, and consumptions of the lungs.   

Pulvis Haly  
Take of white Poppy seeds ten drachms, Gum Arabic, white Starch, Traganth of each three drachms, the seeds of Purslain, marsh Mallows, Mallows of each five drachms, the seeds of Cucumbers, Melons, Guords, Citruls, Quinces, of each seven drachms, Spodium, Liquoris of each three drachms, Penidies the weight of them all, beat them into a powder.  
A. It is a gallant cool powder, fit for all hot imperfections of the breast and lungs, as consumptions, pleurefies etc.   

Laetificans ascribed to Galen.  
Take of the flowers of 
* I take that to be the greatest sort of Bazill, called once before Ocimum Citratum, and here Caryophillatum Citron or Clove Bazil.  Clove Bazil, or else the seeds thereof, Saffron, Zedoary, wood of Aloes, Cloves, Citron pills, Galanga, Mace, Nutmegs, Styrax Calamitis, of each two drachms and an half, shave of Ivory, Annis seeds, Time, Epithimum, of each one dram, bone of a Stag's heart, Pearls, Camphire, Amber grease, Musk, of each half a drachm, leaves of Gold and Silver of each half a scruple, beat them into powder according to art, & so steep them diligently for your use.  
A. It causeth a merry heart, a good colour, helps digestion and keeps back old age.   

Species confectionis Liberantis.  
Take of the roots of Tormentil, the seeds of Sorrel, Endive, Coriander prepared, Citrons of each a drachm and an half, the three sorts of Sanders, white Dictamni, of each one dram, Bowl Armenick, Terra Lemnia of each three drachms, Pearls both sorts of Coral, white Amber, Ivory, Spodium, bone of a Stag's heart, both sorts of Been (or in heiu of them, the roots of Avens and Tormentil) Angelica roots, Cardamons, Cinnamon, Mace, wood of Aloes, Cassia lignea, Saffron, Zedoaary of each half a drachm, Penidies, Sugar Candy, raw silk torrified, Emeralds, Jacinth,, Granate of each two scruples, the flowers of water Lilies, Bugloss, and red Roses of each a scruple, Camphire seven grains, Musk and Amber grease, of of each three grains, beat them into powder according to art.  
A. It is exceeding good in pestilential fevers, and preserveth from ill airs and keepeth the humours in the body from corruption, it cools the heart and blood, and strengtheneth such as are oppressed by heat, to conclude, it is a gallant cool cordial though costly.   

Lithontribon Nicholaus according to Fernelius.  
Take of Spicknard, Ginger, Cinnamon, black Pepper, Cardamons, Cloves, Mace of each halfa drachm, Costus, Liquoris, Cyperus, Traganth, Germander of each two scruples, the seeds of 
a Ammi.  Bishop's weed, Smallage, Asparagus, Bazil, Nettles, Citrons, Saxifrage, Burnet, Caraway, Carrots, Fennel, Bruscus, Parsly of Macedonia, Burrs, 
e or hartwort.  Seseli, Asarabacca of each one drachm. Lapis spongiae, Lyncis, Cancri, Judaici, of each a drachm and an half, Goat's blood prepared an ounce and an half, beat them all into powder according to art.  
A. The truth is, the College have altered this receipt much, and I am persuaded have made it much better, Neque enim benfact a malign, detract are meum est.  
A. It heats the stomach and helps want of digestion coming through cold, it easeth pain in the belly, and loins, the 
o a disease that causeth men to vomit up their excrements.  Iliack passion, powerfully breaks the stone in the reins and bladder, it speedily helps the colic, strangury and dysury.   

Pulvis Saxonicus.  
Take of the roots of both sorts of Angelica; Swallow-wort, Garden Valerian, Polipodium of the Oak, the roots of marsh Mallows, Nettles of each half an ounce, the bark of Germane 
s widdowwail jelt out by Gesner, Crato, and others; and in my opinion it makes the receipt the the worse and not the better.  Mezereon two drachms, the berries of herb True-love or One-berry, by number twenty four, The flowers of the same, 
t whether they intent the flower, thereby distinguishing it from one leaf of the flower, or whether they mean the flower and branch, is very difficult if not impossible to judge, for their word (cum toto] comprehends all, both root, branch, leaf and flower.  branch and all, by number thirty six: steep the roots in Vinegar, then dry them & beat them all into powder.  
A. It seems to be as great an expeller of poison and as great a preservative against it, and the pestilance as one shall usually read of.   

A Powder against the bitings of Mad-dogs.  
Take of the leaves of Vervain, Rue, Sage, Plantain, Polipodium, Common Wormwood, Mints, Mugwort, Bawm, Bettony, St john's wort, Centaury, of each equal parts, let all these be gathered at what time they are in their greatest strength, which is usually about the 
a who dares affirm that our Collegiates are no Astrologers?  full Moon in June, then let them be dried severally in brown papers, in such a place, where neither 
b Learnedly written.  sun nor rain comes, and when you have dried them then keep them for the use above said, but upon this condition that you renew them every year.  
When you have need to use them beat an equal weight of them into powder.  
A. A Drachm of this powder is sufficient to take every morning.   

Pleres' Arconticon. Nicholaus.  
Take of Cinnamon, Cloves, Galanga, wood of Aloes, Indian Spicknard, Nutmegs, Ginger, Spodium, Schoenanthus, Cyperus, 
c Red-roses out of question, yet it seems the College either did not know, or did not care which.  Roses, Violets, of each one drachm, Indian-leafe or Mace, Liquoris, Mastich, Styrax Calamitis. Margerum, Costmary, or water Mints, Bazil, Cardamons, long and white Pepper, Myrtle berries and Citron pills, of each half a Drachm and six grains, Pearls, Been white and red (or if they be wanting take the roots of Avens and Tormentill in their steads) red Coral, torrified silk of each eighteen grains Musk six grains, Camphire four grains, beat them into powder according to art, and with ten times their weight of Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you may make them into an Electuary.  
A. It is exceeding good for sad, melancholy, lumpish, pensive, grieving, vexing, pining, sighing, sobbing, fearful, careful spirits, it strengthens weak stomaches exceedingly, and helps such as are prone to faiming and swoonings, it strengthens such as are weakened by violence of sickness, it helps bad memories, quickens all the senses, strengthens the brain, and Animal spirit, helps the falling sickness, and succours such as are troubled with Asthmaes or other cold afflictions of the lungs.   

A Preservative Powder against the Pestilence. Montagnan.  
Take of all the 
* white, red and yellow.  Saunders, the seeds of Bazil of each an ounce and an half, Bowl Armenick, Cinnamon of each an ounce, The roots of Dittany, Gentian and Tormentil of each two drachms and an half, the seeds of Citron and Sorrel of each two drachms, Pearls, Saphire, bone of a Stag's heart of each one drachm, beat them into powder according to art.  
A. The title tells you the virtue of it. besides it cheers the vital spirit and strengthens the heart.   

Species Electuarii Rosatae Novellae. Nicholaus.  
Take of 
a red-roses. where was the Colleges care?  Roses, Sugar, Liquoris, of each one ounce, one drachm, two scruples and an half, Cinnamon, 
b excellently penned.  two drachms, two scruples and two grains, Cloves, Galanga, Indian Spicknard, Ginger, Nutmegs, Zedoary, Styrax, Cardamons, Smallage of each one scruple and eight grains, Sugar so much as is sufficient, make it first of all into a powder, then into an Electuary according to art.  
A. Sure it was Dr. 
c forgetfulness.  Oblivion and not the College that was the Author of such a sleepy business to set Sugar twice in one receipt.  
A. It quencheth thirst and stays vomiting, and the Author saith it helps hot and dry stomaches, as also heat and dryness of the heart, liver and lungs, (yet is the powder itself hot) it strengthens the vital spirit, takes away heart qualms, provokes sweat, and strengthens such as have laboured long under Cronical diseases.   

A Powder to stop blood. Galen.  
Take of Frankincense one drachm, Aloes half a drachm, beat them into powder, and when you have occasion to use it, mix so much of it with the white of an 
a beat the white of the egg well first.  Eglantine, as will make it of the thickness of Honey, then dip the wool of a Hare in it, and apply it to the sore or part that bleedeth, binding it on.  
A. In my opinion this is a pretty medicine, and will stick on till the sore be throughly healed, and then will come off of itself. I remember when I was a child we applied such a medicine, (only we left out the Aloes and Frankincense and used only Coneys wool and the white of an Eglantine) to kibed heels and always with good success.   

A Powder for Scabs.  
Take of Sulphur Vivum, Niter, the leaves of Marjoram of each two drachms, Letharge of Gold, black Hellebore roots of each one drachm, Burnet half a drachm, beat them into powder according to art.  
A. I cannot speak much in commendations of it, and I dare not dispraise it because it comes from the College, therefore I will let it alone.   

Pulvis Radulphi Hollandi. Commonly known by the name of Holland Powder  
Take of the seeds of Annis, Caraway, Fennel, & Cummin, of Spicknard, Cinnamon, Galanga of each half an ounce, Liquoris, Gromwell of each one ounce, Senna the weight of them all, beat them all into powder.  
A. That this receipt is gallantly composed none can deny and is an excellent purge for such bodies, as are troubled with the wind Colic, or stoppage either of the guts or kidneys, two drachms taken in white-Wine will work sufficiently with any ordinary body.   

Pulvis Sanctus. Brasavola.  
Take of Senna, and Cremor tartar of each two ounces, Cloves, Cinnamon, Galanga, Bishop's weed of each two drachms, Diagrydium half an ounce, beat them into powder according to art.  
In the want of seeds of Bishop's Weed, of which such as are fresh and good are many times not to be had, you may put in Annis seeds in lieu of them.   

Pulvis Senne.  
Take of the best Senna two ounces, Cremor tartar half an ounce, Mace two scruples and an half, Ginger, Cinnamon, of each one drachm and an half, Sal Indi. one drachm, beat them into powder according to art.  
A. Both this and the former powder purge melancholy, and cleanse the head, Montagnanus was the Author of this latter only the College something altered the quantities of the Simples, the former powder works something violently by reason of the Scammony that is in it, the latter is more gentle, and may be given without danger, even two drachm at a time to ordinary bodies, I would not have the unskilful meddle with the former.   

Diaturbith the greater without Rhubarb.  
Take of the best Turbith an ounce, Diagrydium, Ginger, of each half an ounce, Cinnamon, Cloves, of each two drams, Galanga, long Pepper, Mace of each one drachm, beat them into powder, and with eight ounces and five drachms of white Sugar, dissolved in succory water, it may be made into an Electuary.  
A. It purgeth phlegm, being rightly administered by a skilful hand.   

Diaturbith with Rhubarb. Montagnanus.  
Take of the best Turbith, and Hermodactills of each an ounce, Rhubarb ten drachms, Diagrydium half an ounce, white and red Sanders, Violets, Ginger, of each a drachm and an half, Mastic, Annis seed, Cinnamon, Saffron, of each half a drachm, beat them all into powder, and with white Sugar 
o this is notable: they should have added two grains and an halt & half a quarter.  one pound, two ounces, and two drachms, dissolved in Succory water, you may make it into an Electuary according to art.  
A. This also purgeth phlegm and choler, Once more let me desire such as are unskilful in the rules of Physic, not to meddle with purges of this nature (unless prescribed by a skilful Physician) lest they do themselves more mischief in half an hour, than they can claw off again in half a year.   

A Powder for the Worms.  
Take of Worm seeds four ounces, Senna one ounce, Coriander seed prepared, Hartshorn of each half a drachm, Rhubarb half an ounce, dried Rue two drachms, beat them into powder.  
A. I like this powder very well, the quantity (or to write more scholastically, the dose) must be regulated according to the age of the patient, even from ten grains to a drachm, and the manner of taking it, by their palate; It is something purging.    

ELECTVARIES.  

Antidote Analeptica. Or, Electuarium Resumptivum. Fernelius.  
TAke of Red-roses and Liquoris of each two drachms and five grains, Gum Arabic and Traganth of each two drachms and two scruples, Sanders white and red of each four scruples, juice of Liquoris, white Starch, the seeds of of white Poppies, Purslain, Lettuce, Endive of each three drachms, of the four greater cold seeds, the seeds of Quinces, Mallows, Cotton, Violets, 
* and could they not have given the Latin name as well as the Greek name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Pine-Nuts, fresh 
a Pistacia.  Fistick-Nuts, sweet Almonds, pulp of Sebestens of each two drachms, Cloves, Spodium, Cinnamon of each one drachm, Saffron five grains, Penidies half an ounce, let all of them being beaten into powder be made into a soft Electuary with three times their weight in syrup of Violets.  
A. Besides the inverting of the Order which is a matter of nothing, here is Zedoary, Ginger, and Styrax calamitis of each two drachms, left quite out by the College, or (as I am of opinion) rather by the Transcriber, which is an easy thing (together with want of a careful Corrector) to be done: I weigh not the vaporing of the Printer at the latter end of the book, being confident if a thing were left out, he knew it no more than a Hog knows how to fiddle.  
A. It restores Consumptions, and Hectick-feavers, strength lost, it nourisheth much, and restores radical moisture, opens the pores, resists Choler, takes away coughs, quencheth thirst, and resisteth fevers.   

Confectio Alkermes. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of sweet-sented 
b an hundred to one but it is Permains they mean, or else Pippins, for they quote no other Apples.  Apples, sweet Rose-water of each a pound and an half, in which infuse the space of 24. hours, raw Silk four ounces, strain it out strongly, and to the former juices add of the juice of the berries of Kermes brought over to us, a pound, Sugar two pounds, boil it to the thickness of Honey, than (it being removed from the fire) whilst it is yet hot, ad to it half an ounce of Amber grease cut very small, which being well melted, put in these following things, beaten into powder, choice Cinnamon, wood of Aloes of the best, Lapis lazuli burnt in a Crucible, (then beaten into powder and washed first of all in common water, then in Rose or borage water, and that very often, drying of it, and washing of it again, and let this be so often repeated till the water remain clear after the washing) of each six drachms, Pearls prepared three drachms, Leaves of Gold, of the best Musk of each one drachm; make them all up into an Electuary according to art.  
A. Questionless this is a great Cordial, and a mighty strengthener of the heart and spirit vital, a restorer of such as are in Consumptions. a resister of Pestilences and Poison, a great relief to languishing nature; it is given with good success in fevers, but give not too much of it at a time, lest it prove too hot for the body, and too heavy for the purse.   

Electuary of Bay-Berries. Rhasis.  
Take of dried Rue ten drachms, the seeds of Bishops-weed, Cummin, Lovage, Origanum, Nigella, Caraways, Carrots, Parsley, of bitter Almonds, Pepper black and long, Hors-Mints, Calamu, Aromaticus, Bay berries, Castorium of each two drachms; Sagapenum half an ounce, Opopanax three drachms, Clarified honey one pound and an half; the things which are to be bruised, being bruised let them all be made into an Electuary according to art, the Gums being dissolved in Wine, and added to it.  
A. It is exceeding good either in the Colic, or Iliack passion, or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind, it generally easeth pains in the bowels.   

Athanasia Mithridatis. Galen.  
Take of Cinnamon, Cassia, Schaenanth, of each an ounce and an half, Saffron, Myrrh, of each one ounce, Costus, 
o Meum.  Spignel, 
p waterflag perhaps they mean: see the Roots in the Catalogue of Simples.  Acorus, Agrick, Scordium, Carrots, Parsley, of each half an ounce, white Pepper, eleven grains, Honey so much as is sufficient to make it up into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It prevails against poison and the bitings of venomous beasts, and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomaches, stays vomiting of blood, helps old coughs, and cold diseases in the liver, Spleen, bladder, and matrix, The College hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples, but not worth the speaking of.   

Diacapparis. Gilbert of England.  
Take of Capers four ounces, the roots of Agrimony, Nigella seeds, Squills, Asarbacca, Centaury, Pellitory of Spain, black Pepper, Smallage, Time of each one ounce, Honey so much as is sufficient, make it into an Electuary according to art.  
A. They say it helps infirmities of the Spleen, and indeed the name seems to promise so much; it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of Nature in them, me thinks 'tis but oddly composed, the next looks more lovely in my eyes which is—   

Diacinnamomu. Mesue.  
Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms, Cassia lignea, Elicampane roots of each half an ounce, Galanga seven drachms, Cloves, long Pepper, both sorts of Cardamom Ginger, Mace, Nutmegs, wood of Aloes, of each three drachms, Saffron a drachm, Sugar Candy five drachms, Musk two scruples, with clarified Honey, two pound, and eight ounces, boil it, and make it into an Electuary according to art.  
A. There is in the receipt of Mesue Cummin seeds half an ounce, which is here left out, whether wittingly or unwittingly I neither know nor care, out of question the receipt is better they being in than being out, also I can give no reason why it should be boiled, if the Musk and Saffron be boiled they will be spoilt, you had ten times better not boil them at all, it may do harm, cannot do good, if there be too much Honey to make it up, take less, I cannot stand calculating the due proportion in every receipt.  
A. Diacinnamomum, or in plain English a composition of Cinnamon, heats the stomach, causeth digestion, provokes the terms in women, strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body, a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting, is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies, such as are subject to dropsies and diseases, of phlegm, or wind, for it comforts, and strengthens nature much.   

Diacorallion. Coloniens.  
Take of Coral both white and red, Bowl Armenick, Dragon's blood of each a drachm, Pearls half a drachm, wood of Aloes, red Roses, Gum Traganth, Cinnamon of each two scruple, white and red Sanders of each a scruple, beat them at into powder, and when you have so done you may make them into an Electuary according to art, with a sufficient quantity of white Sugar dissolved in small Cinnamon water.  
A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly, and restores such as are in consumptions, it is cooling, therefore good in Hectic fevers, very binding, and therefore stops tuxes, neither do I know a better medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption, accompanied with a looseness, It stops the terms and whites in women, if administered by one whose wits are not a woolgathering.   

Diacorum. Mesue.  
Take of the roots of 
a see the Simples.  Sicers, Calamus Aromaticus, Pine-nuts of each a pound and an half, let them all be cleansed, 
o in water saith Mesue, though the College left it out: you might boil them in piss and yet not swerve from their receipt. I hope they do not hold Arbitrary Government, they make such Arbitrary receipts.  boiled and beaten till they be like a Pultis, then put to them Honey being clarified, ten pounds, boil them, continually stirring them, till it be come to the just thickness, then add the roots of Acorns beaten, and the Pinenuts chopped small, and when you have well mixed them together, ad to them, these powders following, Take of black Pepper an ounce, long Pepper, Cloves, Ginger, Mace, of each half an ounce, Nutmegs, Galanga, Cardamons of each three drachms, mix them with the roots & Honey 
a I know no reason why this might not have been left out, considering the quantity of Honey was prescribed before.  so much is sufficient, stirring it left the ingredients stick to the bottom, and make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. The Electuary provokes lust, heats the brain, strengthens the nerves, quickens the senses, causeth an acute wit, easeth pains in the head, helps the falling sickness and convulsions, Coughs, Catharres, and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the brain.   

Electuarium è 
b Scoria ferri is properly those flakes which Smiths beat off from iron when it is red hot.  scoria ferri. Rhasis.  
Take of the flakes of Iron infused in Vinegar seven days and dried, three drachms, Indian Spicknard, Schoenanth, Cyperus, Ginger, Pepper, Bishop's Weed, Frankincense of each half an ounce, Myrobalans' Indian, Bellericks, and Emblicks, Honey boiled with the decoction of Emblicks, sixteen ounces, mix them together and make of them an Electuary.  
A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care, labour, pains, and industry of the honourable Society the Authors of that book, or the vigilancy of the vapouring Printer, Rhasis an Arabian Physician, the Author of the receipt appoints a drachm of each, the medicine heats the spleen gently purgeth melancholy, easeth pains in the stomach and spleen, and strengthens digestion.   

Diacidonium. Simple.  
Take of the pulp of Quinces boiled in fresh water, to a sufficient thickness, eight pound, white Sugar scummed and boiled to its just thickness, six pounds, boil them both together to a just thickness.   

Diacydonium with Powders. Galen.  
Take of the juice of Quinces, and white Sugar, of each two pound, white-wine Vinegar half a pound added in the end of the decoction, let them boil over a gentle fire, and let the scum be taken off, then add Ginger two ounces, white Pepper ten drachms and two scruples, boil them again over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey.  
A. Is not this then more like a syrup than an Electuary? Surely either the College or I dote.   

Diacydonium Compound of London.  
Take of white Sugar six pound, spring water four pound clarify it with the white of an Egg, and scum it diligently, then take of ripe Quinces, the outward pill and the seeds being taken away, and cut in four parts eight pound, boil them in the said syrup till they be tender, then strain the syrup through a Boulter, boil them again in it, to the consistence of a jelly, adding towards the latter end, four ounces of whit wine Vinegar, the syrup being removed from the fire, put in these powders following being but grossly bruised, viz. Ginger an ounce, white Pepper, Cinnamon, Nutmegs of each two drachms, keep it in divers boxs.  
After the same manner may you make Diacydonium Simple.  
A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former receipt together, he would find but little difference between them, only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added.  
A. The virtues of all these three are, they comfort the stomach, help digestion, stay vomiting, belching &c. stop fluxes and the terms in women.   

Confectio De Hyacintho.  
Take of Jacinth, red Coral, bowl Armenick, 
a Terra sigillata.  earth of lemons, of each half an ounce, the berries of Kermes, the roots of Tormentil and Dictamni, Citron seeds husked, the seeds of Sorrel, Purslain, Saffron, Myrrh, red Roses, all the sorts of Sanders, Bone of a Stag's heart, Hartshorn, lvory of each four scruples, Saphire, Emerald, Topas, Pearls, arw Silk, the leaves of Gold and Silver, of each two scruples, Camphire, Musk, Amber grease, of each five grains, with syrup of Lemons make them into a Confection according to art,  
A. It is a great cordial and cool, exceeding good in acute fevers, and pestilences, it mightily strengtheneth and cherrisheth the heart.   

Confectio Humain. Mesue.  
Take of Eyebright two ounces, Fennel seeds five drachms, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cubebs, long Pepper, Mace of each one drachm, beat them all into powder, and with clarified Honey a pound, in which boil juice of Fennel an ounce, juice of Chelondine and Rue of each half an ounce, and with the powders make it up into an Electuary.  
A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart, quickens the senses, especially the sight, and resisteth the pestilence.   

Antidoum Haemagogum. Rom.  
Take of Lupins two drachms, black Pepper five scruples, and fix grains, Liquoris four scruples, long Birthwort, Mugwort, Cassia lignea, the seeds of Macedonian Parsley, Pellitory of Spain, the seeds of Rue, Spicknard, Myrrh, Penyroyal, of each two scruples and fourteen grains, the seeds of Smallage, Savin of each two scruples & 
a bare weight  thirteen grains, Centaury the greater, 
b I suppose they mean the seeds of these following.  Carrots of Crect, Nigella, Caraway, Annis, Cloves Alum of each two scruples, Bay leaves one scruple one half scruple and three grains, wood of Aloes one scruple and fourteen grains, Schoenanth one scruple and thirteen grains, Asarabacca, Acorus, that is common Calamus Aromacicus, Amomus, Peony, Centaury the less, the seeds of Arrach and Fennel of each one scruple and six grains, Cyperus, Elicampane, Ginger, Capper roots, Cummin, Orobus of each one scruple beat them all into very fine powder, and with four times their weight of Honey, make them up into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It provokes the terms, brings away both birth and afterbirth, the dead child, purgeth such as are not sufficiently purged after travail, it provokes urine, breaks the stone in the bladder, helps the strangury, dysury, iskury etc. helps indigestion, the colic, opens any stops in the body, it heats the stomach, purgeth the liver and spleen, consumes wind, stays vomiting, but let it not be taken by women with child, nor such people as have the Hemorrhoyds.  
A. Nicholaus I take to be the Author of this fantastical medicine, (though the College give it a more general term) and the virtues allo are quoted from him.   

Diaireos' Salomonis. Nicholaus.  
Take of Orris roots an ounce, Penyroyal, Hyssop, Liquoris of each six drachms, Traganth, white Starch, bitter Almonds Pinenuts, Cinnamon, Ginger, Pepper of each three drachms, fat Figs, the pulp of Raisins of the sun, and Dates of each three drachms and an half, Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half, Sugar dissoved in Hyssop water, and clarified Honey of each twice the weight of all the rest, make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungs, and helps cold infirmities of them, as Asthmaes, Coughs, difficulty of breathing etc.   

Diasatyrion. Nicholaus.  
Take of the roots of 
a look the roots in the Simples, and there you shall find these directions you have need enough of.  Satyrion fresh and sound, Garden-Parsnips, Eringo, Pine-Nuts, Indian-Nuts, or if Indian Nuts be wanting, take the double quantity of Pine Nuts, Fistick-Nuts of each one 
b the Author appoints but seven drams.  ounce and an half; Cloves, Ginger. the seeds of Annis, Rocket, 
c viz the seeds within them.  Ash keys, of each five drachms, Cinnamon, the tails and loins of Scincus, the seeds of 
d I know not what English name to give it,  Bulbus, Nettles of each two drachms and an half, Musk seven grains, of the best Sugar dissolved in Malaga Wine, three pounds, make it into an Electuary according to art.  
A. Either the College or the Printer left out Cicer roots seven drachms, which I think are proper to the receipt; they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds, and in so doing they did well.  
A. It helps weakness of the reins and bladder, and such as make water with difficulty, it provokes lust exceedingly, and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus, being indeed compiled to that end.   

Diasatyrion more pleasant. Coloniens.  
Take of Satyrion roots three ounces, the pulp of Dates, sweet Almonds, Indian Nuts, Pine Nuts, Fistick Nuts, green Ginger, Eringo roots preserved of each one ounce, Ginger, Cloves, Galanga, long and black Pepper, of each 3. drams, Amber grease one scruple, Musk two scruples, Penidies four ounces, Cinnamon, Saffron of each half an ounce, Malaga Wine three ounces, Nutmegs, Mace, grains of Paradise of each two drachms, Ash-tree seeds, the bellies and loins of Scincus, Borax, 
a commonly called Benjamin.  Benzoin of each three drachms, wood of Aloes, Cardamons of each two drachms, Been white and red, or in leiu of them the roots of Avens and Tormentil of each one drachm and an half: Let all the Simples being beaten into powder be made up into an Electuary with two pound and an half of syrup of green Ginger according to art.  
A. This also increaseth Seed, causeth desire of Copulation, and breaks wind.   

Electuarium Diaspermaton. Fernelius.  
Take of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds, The seeds of Asparagus, Burnet, Bazill, Parsly, the berries of winter-Cherries, of each two drachms; 
a I suppose the seeds.  Gromwel, juice of Liquoris, of each three drachms, Cinnamon, Mace of each one drachm, white Sugar dissolved in distilled water of march-Mallows, eight times their weight, make of them an Electuary according to art.  
A. It breaks the Stone, and provokes Urine.   

A Pectoral Electuary. August.  
Take of the juice of Liquoris, sweet Almonds, Hazelnuts, of each half an ounce, Pine Nuts an ounce, Hyssop, Maidenhair, Orris, Nettle seeds, round Birthwort, of each one dram and an half, black Pepper, the seeds of Water-Cresses, the roots of Elicampane of each half a drachm, Honey fourteen ounces; make them up into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It strengthens the stomach and lungs, and helps the vices thereof.   

Micleta. Nicholaus.  
Take of all the Myrobalans of each two drachms and an half, the seeds of Water-Cresses and Fennel, Cummin, Bishop's weed, Annis, Carraway of each one drachm and an half; let them all be bruised and sprinkled with sharp White-Wine-Vineger, then beaten into powder, after add these things following, Spodium, 
b Balaustins.  Pomegranate flowers, Sumach, Mastich, Gum Arabic of each one drachm and fifteen grains, let them all be mixed with three times their weight of syrup of Myrtles boiled to the thickness of Honey, (i.e. ten ounces more or less) make them np into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It gently easeth the bowels of the Wind-Chollick, wring of the Guts, infirmities of the Spleen, it stops fluxes, the Hemorrhoids, as also the terms in women.   

Theriaca Diatessaron. Mesue.  
Take of 
b the roots I suppose are intended.  Gentian, Bay berries, Myrrh, round Birthwort of each two ounces, Honey two pound, mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art.  
A. You must first beat them into powder before you mix them with the Honey, else you will make an Electuary to choke Daws with.  
A. This is a gallant Electuary, like the Author, It wonderfully helps cold infirmities of the brain, as Convulsions, falling sickness, dead Palseyes, shaking Palseyes' &c. as also the stomach, as pains there, wind, want of digestion, as also stops of the liver, dropsies, it resists the pestilence, and poisons, and helps the bitings of venomous beasts.   

〈◊〉 his great Antidote against Poison and Pestilence.  
Take of Rhubarb, Rhupontick, Valerian roots, the roots of Acorus or Calamus Aromaticus, Cyperus, Cinkfoil, Tormentil, round Birthwort, male Peony, Alicampane, Costus, Illirick Orris, white Chameleon, or Avens of each three drachms, the roots of Galanga, Masterwort, white Dictamni, Angelica, Yarrow, Filipendula or dropwort, Zedoary, Ginger of each 2. drachms, Agrick 3. drams, Rosemary, Gentian, Devilsbit of each two drachms and an half, the seeds of Citrons and Agnus Castus, the berries of Kermes, the seeds of Ash tree, Sorrel, wild Parsneps, Navew, Nigella, Peony the male, Bazil, 
a Irio.  hedge Mustard, Treacle Mustard, Fennel, Bishop's weed of each two drachms, the berries of Bay-Juniper and Ivy, 
b I think they mean that by smilax aspera.  Sarsaparilla (or for want of it the double weight of Cubebs) Cubebs of each a drachm and an half, the leaves of Scordium Germander, Chamaepitys, Centaury the less, 〈◊〉, Celtic Spicknard, Calaminth, Rue, Mints, Bettony, Vervain, Scabious, Carduus Benedictus, Bawm, of each a drachm and an half, Dirtany of Crect three drachms, Marjoram, St. John's wort, Schoenanth, Horehound, Goat's Rue, Savin, Burnet of each two drachms, Figs, Walnuts, Fistick nuts, of each three ounces, Emblick Myrobalans' half an ounce, the flowers of Violets, borage, bugloss, Roses, Lavender, Sage, Rosemary, of each four scruples, Saffron three drachms, Cassia lignea ten drachms, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace of each two drachms and an half, black Pepper, long Pepper, all the three sorts of Sanders, wood of Aloes of each one drachm and an half, Hartshorn, half an ounce, Unicorns horn or in its stead Beazor stone one drachm, bone in a Stag's heart, Ivory, Stag's pizzle, Castorium of each four scruples, earth of Lemons three drachms, Opium one drachm and an half, Orient Pearls, Emerald, Jacinth, red Coral of each a drachm and an half, Camphire two drachms, Gum Arabic, Mastich, Frankincense, Styrax, Turpentine, Sagapenum, Opopanax, Laserpitium or Myrrh of each two drachms and an half, Musk, Ambergris of each one dram, Oil of Vitriol half an ounce, 
a see the way to make these in their proper places.  Species cordiales temperatae, Diamargeriton, Diamoschu, Diambra, Electuarii De gemmis, troches of Camphire, of Squils of each two drachms & an half, Troches of Vipers two ounces, the juice of Sorrel, Sowthistles, Scordium, 
* Ecchium  Viper's Bugloss, borage, Bawm of each half a pound, Hypocistis two drachms, of the best Treacle and Mithridate of each six ounces, Old wine three pound of the best Sugar or choice 
b a wise man will take Honey  Honey eight pound six ounces, these being all chosen and prepared with Diligence and Art, let them be made into an Electuary, just as Treacle or Mithridate is  
A. The Title shows you the scope of the Author in compiling it, I believe it is excellent for those uses, I want time to examine what alterations the College hath made in it, or whether any or none, for particular virtues, (to avoid Tautology) I refer you to his Bezoar water page twenty eight.   

Diascordium. Fracastorius,  
Take of Cinnamon, Cassia lignea of each half an ounce, Scordium an ounce, Dittany of Crect, Tormentil, Bistort, Galbanum, Gum Arabic of each half an ounce, opium a drachm and an half, Styrax Calamitis four drachms and an half, Sorrel seeds one drachm and an half, Gentian half an ounce, Bowl Armenick one ounce and an half, Terra Lemnis half an ounce, long Pepper, Ginger of each two drachms, clarified Honey two pound and an half, conserveses of Roses a pound, Canary Wine half a pound, make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It is a well composed Electuary something apropriated to the nature of women, for it provokes the terms, hastens their labour, and helps their usual sickness at the time of their lying in, I know nothing better; it stops fluxes, mightily strengtheneth the heart and stomach, neither is so hot but it may safely be given to weak people, and besides they say it provokes sleep, but I believe it is per accidens then, not pierce, viz. by removing what causeth watching, for the composition looked upon in the bulk is hot and not cold, and hot things seldom or never provoke sleep.   

Mithridate. Damocrates.  
Take of Myrrh of Arabia, Saffron, Agrick, Ginger, Cinnamon, Spicknard, Frankincense, the seeds of Treacle-mustard of each ten drachms, the seeds of Seseli or Hartwort, Opobalsamum or oil of Nutmegs by expression, Scaenanth, Stoechas, Costus, Galbanum, Turpentine, long Pepper, Castorium of Pontus, the juice of Hypocystis, the best Styrax, Opopanax, fresh Indian leaves, or for want thereof Mace of each an ounce Cassia lignea, Poley, white Pepper, Scordium, Carret seeds, Carpobalsamum, or Cubebs, Trochisci Cypheos, Bdellium of each seven drachms, Celtich Spicknard, Gum Arabic, Macedonian, Parsly, Opium, Cardamons the less, Fennel seeds, Gentian, the leaves of red Roses and Dictamni of Crect, of each five drachms, Annis seeds, Asarabacca, Acorus, or Calamus Aromaticus, Orris, Valerian the greater, Sagapenum of each three drachms, Spignel Acacia, the belly of Scineus, the tops of St. John's wort of each two drachms and an half, so much wine as is sufficient to dissolve the Gums and Juices, then with three times the weight of all (the wine excepted) in Honey make it up into an Electuary.  
A. I have not time to search whether there be any difference in the Composition between Damocrites and the College, It was also corrected afterwards by Bartholomew Maranta, Also Andromacus hath another sort of Mithridate, It may be it is that usually called with us [Venice Mithridate] but because the Electuary is very chargeable to be made and cannot be made but in great quantities, and only that here prescribed is to be gotten, or at least, easily to be gotten, I am willing to spare my pains in any further search.  
A. It is good against poison, and such as have done themselves wrong by taking filthy medicines, it provokes sweat, it helps continual waterings of the stomach, ulcers in the body, consumptions weakness of the limbs, rids the body of cold humours, and diseases coming of cold, it remedies cold infirmities of the brain, and stopping of the passage of the senses (viz. hearing, seeing, smelling &c.) by cold, it expels wind helps the Colic, provokes appetite to ones victuals, It helps ulcers in the bladder if Galen say true, as also difficulty of urine, It casts out the dead child, and helps such women as cannot conceive by reason of cold, It is an admirable remedy for melancholy and all diseases of the body coming through cold, it would fill a whole sheet of paper to reckon them all up particularly.   

Philonium Persicum. Mesue.  
Take of white Pepper, 
a the seeds out of question.  white Henbane of each ' twenty drachms, Opium, Terra Lemnia of each ten drachms, Lapis Hematitis prepared, Saffron of each five drachms, Castorium, Indian Spicknard, Euphorbium, Amber, Zedoary, Doronicum, Troches of Ramich, Pellitory of Spain, Pearls, of each a drachm and an half, Camphire one scruple, Honey Roses the triple weight of all, mix them together into an Electuary according to art.  
A. All the difference is Mesue appoints Honey, whose commendations of it is, it stops blood flowing from any part of the body, the immoderate flowing of the terms in women, the Hemorrhoyds in men, spitting of blood, bloody fluxes, and is profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry.   

Philonium Romanum. Nicholaus.  
Take of white Pepper the seeds of white Henbane, of each five drachms, Opium two drachms and an half, Cassia lignea one drachm and an half, the seeds of Smallage one drachm, the seeds of Macedonian Parsley, Fennel, and Carrots of Crect of each two scruples and five grains, Saffron a scruple and an half, Indian Spicknard, Pellitory of Spain, Zedoary, of each fifteen grains, Cinnamon a drachm and an half, Euphorbium, Myrrh, Castorium, of each one drachm, with three times the weight of them all in clarified Honey make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It is a most exquisite thing to ease vehement and deadly pains, in what part of the body so ever they be, whether internal or external, that vehemency of pain will bring a fever, and a fever, death, no man well in his wits will deny, therefore in such diseases which cause vehemency of pain, as colics, the Stone, Strangury etc. this may be given (ordered by the discretion of an able brain, for it conduceth little to the cure) to mitigate the extremity of pain, while convenient remedy may be had, (as men pump the water out before they can stop the hole in a leaking vessel) As for other virtues which Authors say this Electuary hath, I shall pass them by, resting confident that other remedies may be found out for them in this book, as effectual and less dangerous, and because the former Electuary is not much unlike to this in some particulars, take the same caution in that also.   

Electuarium De Ovo: Maximilian the Emperor.  
Take an Hens Eglantine new laid, and a small hole being made in the top, take out the white, leaving the yolk still in, then fill up the void place with Saffron not beaten into powder, then cover over the hole with 
* a little hard wax will serve if you make not the hole too large.  another cover, then roast it with a 
a there is nothing like to hot Embers.  gentle fire till all the she'll begin to look black, attending it diligently, lest the Saffron burn, (for then is all the medicine spoiled) then take the matter out, and dry it, that so it may be beaten into fine powder, ad to it, its weight in white Mustard seed, in powder, Then take the roots of white or bastard Dittany, Tormentil of each two drachms, Myrrh, Hartshorn, 
b Butter-burr, it growscom monly by ditcnes sides, & bears no stalks at all, but broad leaves, and the flower appears before the leaf.  Petasitis roots, of each one drachm, the roots of Angelica, and Burnet, Juniper berries, Zedoary, Camphire, of each half an ounce; let all these being beaten into powder be diligently mixed with the other in a mortar, and add to them their weight of the best Treacle, mixed together, with a pestle for three hours, pouring in syrup of Lemons so much as is sufficient, till it be made into an Electuary according to art.  
A. A drachm of it given at a time, is as great an help in a pestilential fever as a man shall usually read of in a Galenist.   

Requies. Nicholaus.  
Take of Red-Rose leaves the whites being cut off, blue Violets of each three drachms, Opium of Thebes dissolved in Wine, the seeds of white Henbane, Poppies white and black, the bark of the roots of Mandrakes, the seeds of Endive, Purslain, Garden Lettuce, 
c I take it to be 〈◊〉- wort, not 〈◊〉- bane, the 〈◊〉 look 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Psyllium, Spodium, Gum Traganth of each 2. 〈◊〉 & 5. grains, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Ginger of each one drachm and an half; Sanders yellow white & red, of each one drachm & an half, Sugar three times their weight dissolved in Rose-water mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art.  
A. Requies the title of this prescript, signifies Rest; but I would not advise you to take too much of it inwardly, for fear in stead of Rest it bring you to Madness, or at best to folly; outwardly I confess being applied to the temples as also to the insides of the wrists, it may mitigate the heat in fevers and provoke the rest, as also mitigate the violent heat and raging in Frenzies.   


a This is that which commonly is called Venice-treacle.  Andromacus his Treacle.  
Take of Troches of Squils' eight and forty drachms, Troches of Vipers, long Pepper, Opium of Thebes, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 os each twenty four drachms, dried 
b Take it always for red-Roses when the other are not mentioned.  Rose leaves the whites being cut off, Illyrick Orris, juice of Liquoris, the seeds of sweet Navew, Scordium, Opobalsamum, Cinnamon, Agrick of each twelve drachms, Myrrh, sweet 〈◊〉 or Zedoary, Saffron, Cassia lignea, Indian Spicknard, Schaenanth, Pepper white andblack, 
c 〈◊〉.  Male Frankincense, Dittany of Crect, Rhubarb, Stoechas, Horehound, the seeds of Macedonian Parsley, dried Calaminth, Turpentine, the roots of cinquefoil and Ginger of each six drachms, the branches of Poley mountain, Camaepitys, Celtic Spicknard, Amomus, Styrax Calamitis, the roots of Spignel, the tops of Germander, the roots of Rhapontick, Earth of Lemnos, Indian Leaf, Chalcitis, or in stead thereof Roman Vitriol, burnt, Gentian roots, Gum Arabic, juice of Hypocistis, Carpobalsamum or Nutmegs or Cubebs, the seeds of Annis, Fennel, Seseli, or Heartwort, Cardamons, Acacia, or in leiu thereof the juice of Sloes made thick, the seeds of Treacle Mustard, the tops of St. John's wort, the seeds of Bishop's weed, Sagapenum, of each four drachms, Castorium, the roots of long Birthwort, bitumen Judaicum, the seeds of Carrots, Opopanax, Centaury the less, Galbanum of each two drachms; old Canary Wine sufficient to dissolve the things that can be dissolved, pure Honey three times the weight of the dry Simples, mix them together according to art.  
A. It is confessed many Physicians have commented upon this receipt, as Bartholomaeus Maranta, Galen, Medici Romani, and 〈◊〉 Bononienses, cum multis aliis: But with little differencs. The virtues of it are, It resists poison and the biting of venomous beasts, inveterate headaches, vertigo, deafness, the falling-sickness, astonishment, appoplexes, dulness of sight, want of voice, Asthames, old and new Coughs, such as spit or vomit blood, such as can hardly spit or breath, coldness of the stomach, wind, the Chollik and Iliak passion, the Yellow Jaundice, hardness of the Spleen, stone in the reins and bladder, difficulty of urine, ulcers in the bladder, Fevers, Dropsies, Leprosies, it provokes the terms, brings forth both birth and afterbirth, helps pains in the joints, it helps not only the body but also the mind, as vain fears, melancholy etc. and is a good remedy in pestilential fevers Thus Galen.   

London Treacle.  
Take of Hartshorn two ounces, the seeds of Citron, Sorrel Peony, Bazil of each one ounce, Scordium, Corallina of each six drachms, the roots of Angelica, Tormentil, Peony, the leaves of Dictamni, the berries of Juniper and Bay of each half an ounce, the flowers of Marigolds, Clovegilliflowers, Rosemary flowers, the tops of St. John's wort, Nutmegs, Saffron, of each three drachms, the roots of Gentian, Zedoary, Ginger, Mace, Myrrh, the leaves of Scabious, Devil's bit, Carduus Benedictus of each two drachms, Cloves, Opium of each one drachm, Canary Wine, so much as is 
a viz. dissolve the Opium.  sufficient, Honey three times the weight of the rest, mix them together according to art.  
A. The receipt is a pretty cordial, resists the pestilence, and is a good antidote in pestilential times, it resists poison, strengthens cold stomaches, helps digestion, and crudities of the stomach.   

Benedicta Laxativa. Nicholaus.  
Take of choice Turbith 10. drams, Diagridium, the bark of the roots of Spurg prepared, Hermodactils, Red Roses of each five drachms, Cloves, Spicknard, Ginger, Saffron, Saxifrage, long Pepper, Amomus, or for want of it Calamus Aromaticus, Cardamons the less, the seeds of Smallage, Parsley, Caraway, Fennel, Sparagus, Bruscus, Gromwel, Sal. Gem. Galanga, Mace, of each one drachm, clarified Honey three times their weight, make them into an Electuary according to art, Also you may conveniently keep the Species by itself.  
A. It purgeth phlegm, chiefly from the joints, also it purgeth the reins and bladder.  
A. I willingly omit the quantity of these purges, because I would not have foolish women and dunces do themselves and others a mischief.   

Carycostimum. Bayr. è Gal.  
Take of Cloves, white Costus or Zedoary, Ginger, Cummin of each two drachms, Hermodactils, Diagrydium of each half an ounce, with their double weight of Honey clarified in white wine, mix them together and make them into an Electuary.  
A. Authors say it purgeth hot Rewms, and takes away inflammations in wounds, I assure you the Electuary works violently, and may safest be given in Clysters.   

Cassia extracted for Clysters. Augustani.  
Take of the leaves of Violets, Mercury, Mallows, Beets, Pellitory of the wall, the flowers of Violets, of each a handful, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, by the benefit of which let the Cassia be drawn with this decoction and the Canes washed and boiled again to a height, a pound, boil it to perfection according to art.  
A. It is no more than breaking the Canes of the Cassia, and pick out the pulp (casting away the seeds) boil the pulp in a little of this decoction; then press it through a pulping Sieve, the title shows the use of it: or if you will take an ounce of it inwardly, you shall find it work with great gentleness.   

Electuarium Amarum Magistrale majus.  
Take of white Agrick, choice Turbith, Species hiera simplex Galeni, of the best Rhubarb of each a drachm, choice Aloes washed two drachms, Ginger, Cremor Tartar of each two scruples, Orris Florentine, sweet Fennel seeds of each one scruple, syrup of Roses solutive as much as is sufficient to make it into a bitter Electuary.   

Electuarium Amarum minus.  
Take of Epithimum half an ounce, the roots of Angelica three drachms, of Gentian, Zedoary, Acorus of each two drachms, Cinnamon a drachm and an half, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Saffron of each a drachm, Aloes six ounces, with syrup of Fumitory and Scabious, with 
a it is something mysterious why sugar should be added to the syrups.  Sugar so much as is sufficient, make them up into a soft Electuary according to art.  
A. Both these purge choler, the former phlegm and this melancholy, the former works strongest and this strengthens most, and is good for such whose brains are annoyed.   

Diacassia with Manna.  
Take of damask Prunes two ounces, Violet flowers a handful and an half, spring water a pound and an half, let them boil according to art till half the water be consumed, then strain it, and dissolve in the decoction, pulp of Cassia six ounces, Sugar of Violets, Syrup of Violets, of each four ounces, pulp of Tamarinds one ounce, Sugar Candy one ounce and an half, of the best Manna two ounces, mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art.  
A. It is a fine cool purge for such as are bound in body, for it works gently and without trouble, it purgeth choler, and may safely be given in fevers coming of choler, but in in such cases, if the body be much bound, the best way is first to administer a Clyster, and then the next morning an ounce of this will cool the body and keep it in due temper.   

Cassia Extracted without the leaves of Senna.  
Take of Prunes by number twelve, Violet flowers a handful, French Barley, the seeds of Annis and Bastard Saffron, Polipodium of the Oak of each five drachms, Maidenhair, Time, Epithimum, of each half a handful, Raisins of the Sun stoned half an ounce, Fennel seeds two drachms, the seeds of Purslain and Mallows of each three drachms, Liquoquoris half an ounce, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, strain it, and in the decoction dissolve pulp of Cassia two pounds, Tamarinds one ounce, 
a must the Cinnamon be dissolved too:  Cinnamon three drams of the best Sugar a pound, boil them to a perfection according to art.   

Cassia Extracted with the leaves of Senna.  
Take of the Electuary of Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna, two pound, the leaves of Senna in powder two ounces, mix them together according to art.  
A. This is also a fine cool purge, gentle, cleansing the bowels of choler and melancholy, without any griping, very fit for feverish bodies, and yet the former is gentler than this.   

Diacarthamum or Diacnicum. Arnoldus de villâ nouâ.  
Take of Species diatragacanthi frigidi half an ounce, pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce, pulp of seeds of Carthamus or bastard Saffron, half an ounce, Ginger two drachms, Diagrydium beaten by itself three drachms, white Turbith six drachms, Manna two ounces, Honey Roses solutive, Sugar Candy of each one ounce, Hermodactils half an ounce, white Sugar ten ounces and an half, make of them a Liquid Electuary according to art.  
A. I wonder what art it must be, wherewith a man should make up an Electuary and have not wherewithal, I tell you truly, that to make up an Electuary of this without more moisture (for here is not a quarter enough) is a task harder than all Hercules his twelve labours, abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell, or it may be they intent you should go back to Species Electuarii Diagalangae to fetch Honey from thence where they have appointed three times more than needs, for my part I shall trouble the reader no further, but leave the receipt to Arnoldus and the College for a pure piece of nonsense.   

Diaphoenicon. Mesue together with Feruelius.  
Take of the pulp of Dates boiled in 
a water and honey.  Hydronel, and strained through a pulping Sieve, Penidies of each half a pound, sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half, let all of them be bruised and mixed, then add clarified Honey 2. pound, boil them a little, then sprinkle in Ginger, Pepper, Mace, Cinnamon, dried Rue, the seeds of Fennel and Carrots, of each two drachms, Turbith four ounces in fine powder, Diagrydium an ounce and an half, 
c beat them first into powder.  make of them an Electuary according to art.  
A. I cannot believe this is so profitable in fevers taken downwards as Authors say, for it is a very violent purge, Indeed I believe being mixed in Clysters, it may do good in colics and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humours.   

Diaprunum Simple, more rightly called Lenitive. Nicholaus.  
Take a hundred Damask Prunes fresh and ripe, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till they be soft, then draw the pulp of them through a Sieve, and in the liquor they were boiled in, boil an ounce of Violet flowers, strain it, and in the 
d they might have been a little plainer and set down howmuch decoction there must be; I suppose you may boil the violets in three pints till one be consumed.  Decoction dissolve two pound of Sugar and boil it into a syrup, then add of the pulp spoken of before, a pound, pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each an ounce, then put in these following powders, of white and red Sanders, Spodium, Rhubarb, of each three drachms, Roses, Violets, the seeds of Purslain, endive Barberries, Gum Traganth, Liquoris, Cinnamon of each two drachms, of the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm, make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It may safely, and is with good success given in acute, burning, and all other fevers, for it cools much and loosens the body gently, it is good in agues, hectic fevers and Marasmos.   

Diaprunum Solutive. Nicholaus.  
Take of Diaprunum lenitive whilst it is yet warm four pound, Scammony prepared, two ounces and five drachms, mix them together and make of them an Electuary according to art.  
Seeing the Dose of the Scammony is increased according to the Author in this medicine, you may use a less weight of Scammony if you please.  
A. And therein the College said true, for the medicine according to this receipt is too strong, violent, corroding, gnawing, fretting, and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes which simple people take to give themselves a purge, being fitter to do them mischief (poor souls) than good, unless ordered with more discretion than they have, it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb, that no carrion will kill a Crow.   

Diacatbolicon. Nicholaus.  
Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds, the leaves of Senna of each two ounces, Polypodium, Violets, Rhubarb, Annis Seeds, Penidies, Sugar Candy, of each one ounce, Liquoris, the seeds of Guords, Citruls, Cucumbers, Melons of each three drachms. Let the things to be beaten be beaten, and take of fresh 
a bruise the Polipodium else you had as good boil a 〈◊〉.  Polipodium three ounces, Fennel seed six drams boil them in four pints of rain or spring water, to the consumption of the third part, strain it and add to the decoction two pound of the best Sugar, boil it again, with the pulps of Cassia and Tamarinds, and the powders being added in theend, make it into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body, and very gentle, it may be given (an ounce or half an ounce at a time, according to the strength of the patient) in acute, in peracute diseases, for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength, it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen, gouts of all sorts, quotidian; tertian, and quartan agues, as also headaches. It is usually given in Clysters.   

Diacrocuma, or Species Electuarii de Croce. Mesue.  
Take of Saffron, the roots of Asarabacca, the seeds of Parsley, Carrots, Annis, Smallage of each half an ounce, Rhubarb, the roots of Spignel, Indian Spicknard of each six drachms, Cassia lignea, Costus, Myrrh, Schoenanth, Cubebs, the roots of Maddir, the juice of Wormwood and 
b Ageratum.  Maudlin, made thick, Opobalsamum or oil of Nutmegs of each two drachms, Cinnamon, Calamus Aromaticus of each a drachm and an half, Scordium, Stoechas, juice of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half, Traganth one drachm, make it up into an Electuary with eight times their weight in Sugar, dissolved in Endive water and clarified according to art.  
A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey, it is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach, liver, or spleen, corruption of humours and putrefaction of meat in the stomach, ill favoured colour of the body, dropsies, cold faults in the reins and bladder, provokes urine.   

Electuarium de Citro Solutive.  
Take of preserved 
a viz. the middle bark which is thick.  Citron pills, conserveses of Violets and Bugloss, Diatragacanthum frigidum, Diagridium of each half an ounce, Turbith five drachms, Ginger half a drachm, the the leaves of Senna six drachms, sweet Fennel seeds a drachm; white Sugar dissolved in Rose water, and boiled according to art ten ounces, make them all into a solid Electuary according to art.  
A. Here are some things very cordial, others purge violently, both put together make a composition no way pleasing to me, therefore I account it a pretty receipt, good for nothing.   

Electuarium Elescoph. Mesue.  
Take of Scammony, and the best Turbith of each six drams Cloves, Cinnamon, Ginger, Emblick Myrobalans, 〈◊〉 Polypodium of each two drachms and an half, Sugar six ounces, clarified Honey ten ounces, mix them and make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. Mesue appoints only clarified Honey one pound and four ounces, to make it up into an Electuary, and saith it purgeth choler, and phlegm, and wind from all parts of the body, helps pains of the joints and sides, the colic, it cleanseth the reins and bladder, yet I advise you not to take too much of it at a time, for it works pretty violently though well corrected by the pen of a Mesue, let half an ounce be the most, for such whose bodies are strong, always remembering that you had better ten times take too little then once to much.   

Confectio Hamech. Fernelius.  
Take of the 
a that is only the stones cast away  barks of Citron Myrobalans two ounces, Myrobalans, chebs and black, Violets colocynthis, Polipodium of the Oak, of each an ounce and an half, Wormwood, Time of each half an ounce, the seeds of Annis and Fennel, the flowers of red Roses of each three drachms, let all of them being bruised be infused for one day in 
b four pints is little enough: I assure you, you shall as soon eat a load of logs as make it into an Electuary with two pints boiled away to one.  two pints of Whey, then boil it to one pound, rub it with your hands and then press it out, and ad to the decoction, juice of fumitory, pulp of Prunes, and Raisins of the sun of each half a pound, white 
c take the double quantity of them also.  Sugar, clarified Honey of each a pound, boil them to the thickness of Honey, sprinkled in towards the end, Agrick Trochiscated, Senna of each two ounces, Rhubarb an ounce and an half, Epithimum an ounce, Diagridium six drachms, Cinnamon half an ounce, Ginger two drachms, the seeds of Fumitory, Annis, Spicknard, of each one 〈◊〉, make an Electuary of them according to art.  
A. The receipt is chiefly apropriated as a purge for melancholy, and salt phlegm, & diseases thence rising, as Scabs, Itch Leprosies, Cancers, infirmities of the skin, it purgeth addust humours, and is good against madness, melancholy, forgetfulness, vertigo etc.   

Electuarium Indum Minus. Mesue.  
Take of Turbith, Sugar of each a hundred drachms, Mace Pepper, Ginger, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cardamons, Nutmegs of each seven drachms, Scammony prepared twelve drachms, mix them with three times their weight (the Sugar excepted) of clarified Honey, and so make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It purgeth the bowels as also the joints of putrified phlegm, it breaks wind, is therefore profitable for the Colic.  
A. The College have much altered the quantity of the Turbith and Sugar, it purgeth violently.   

Lenitive Electuary.  
Take of Raisins of the sun stoned, Polypodium of the Oak Senna of each two ounces, Mercury one handful and an half Jujubes, Sebestens by number twenty, Maidenhair, Violets, French Barley of each a handful, Damask Prunes stoned, Tamarinds of each six drachms, Liquoris half an ounce, boil them according to art, strain them out and dissolve in the decoction pulp of Cassia, Tamarinds, and fresh Prunes, Sugar of Violets of each six ounce, of the best Sugar two pound, lastly ad an ounce and an half of Senna in powder, to every pound of the Electuary, so bring it into a form according to art.  
A. It gently opens and mollifies the bowels, bringing forth choler, phlegm, and melancholy, and that without trouble, It is cooling and therefore is profitable in Pleuresies, and for wounded people, a man of reasonable strength may take an ounce of it going to bed, which will work next morning.   

Electuarium Passulatum.  
Take of Polypodium of the Oak three ounces, the leaves of Senna, the roots of marsh Mallows fresh of each two ounces, Annis two drachms, infuse them all in spring water a sufficient quantity, in a glazed vessel and boil them according to art, then strain them out and add to the decoction pulp of Raisins of the Sun drawn through a Sieve half a pound, white Sugar and Manna of each four ounces, boil them again to the thickness of Marmilade, and renew it four times a year.  
A. The College are so mysterious in this receipt, a man can hardly give directions how to make it, for they give only incertainties.  
A. You had best first boil the roots in three pints of water to a quart, then put in the Senna, and seeds, boil it to a pint and an half, then strain it and add the rest, the Manna will melt of itself as well as the Sugar, indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by itself in some of the decoction, and so strain it because of its dross.  
A. It gently purgeth both choler and melancholy, cleanseth the reins and bladder, and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidneys.   

Electuary of the juices of Roses. Nicholaus Myrepsus.  
Take of Sugar, and the juce of Red Roses of each one pound and four ounces, of the three sorts of Sanders of each six drachms, Spodium three drachms, Diagrydium twelve drachms, Camphire a scruple, make of them an Electuary according to art, let the juices be boiled with the Sugar to a just thickness, then add the other things in powder.  
A. It purgeth choler and is good in tertian agues and diseases of the joints, it purgeth violently, therefore let it be warily given.   

Electuarium Reginae Coloniens.  
Take of the seeds of Saxifrage and Gromwel, Juice of Liquoris of each half an ounce, the seeds of Caraway, Annis, Smallage, Fennel, 〈◊〉 of Macedonia, Broom, Carrots, Bruscus, Sparagus, Lovage, Cummin, Juniper, Rue, Siler Mountain, the roots of Acorus, Penyroyal, cinquefoil, Bay Berries of each two drachms, Indian Spicknard, Schoenanth, Amber, Valerian, Hogs Fennel, Lapis Lincis, of each a dram and an half, Galanga, Ginger, Turbith, of each two drachms, Senna an ounce, Goat's blood prepared half an ounce, mix them together, first beat them into a powder, then make them into an Electuary according to art with three times their weight in Sugar dissolved in white Wine.  
A. It is an excellent remedy for the stone and wind colic, a drachm of it being taken every morning, I assure such as are troubled with such diseases, I cannot but commend it to them as a Jewel.   

Hiera Picra Simplex. Galeni.  
Take of Cinnamon, Xylobalsamum or wood of Aloes, Asarabacca, Spicknard, Mastic, Saffron of each six drachms, Aloes unwashed twelve ounces and an half, clarified Honey four pound and three ounces, make it up into an Electuary according to art, also the Species is kept by itself in shops.  
A. It is an excellent remedy for vicious juices which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach, and such idle fancies and symptoms which the brain suffers thereby, whereby some think they see, others that they hear strange things, especially when they are in bed and between sleeping and waking, besides this, it very gently purgeth the belly and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their travail.   

Hiera with Agriok.  
Take of Species Hiera Simple without Aloes, Agrick trochiscated of each half an ounce, Aloes not washed an ounce, clarified Honey six ounces, mix them together into an Electuary.  
A. Look but the virtues of Agrick and add them to the virtues of the former receipt, so is the business done without any further trouble.   

Hiera Logodii. Nicholaus.  
Take of the 
a which is the whole apple as they are bought at the Apothecaries the seeds only cast away.  pulp of Colocynthis Polypodium of each two drachms, Euphorbium, Poley mountain, the seeds of Thymelea of each one drachm and an half and six grains, Wormwood, Myrrh of each one drachm and twelve grains, Centaury the less, Agrick, Gum Amoniacum, Indian leaf or Mace, Spicknard, Squils' prepared, 〈◊〉 of each one drachm, Aloes, the leaves of Time, Germander, Cassia Lignea, 
b Spurgeflax, see the simples.  Bdellium, Horehound of each one scruple and fourteen grains, Cinnamon, Opopanax, Castorium, long-Birthwort, the three sorts of Pepper, Saffron, Sagapenum, Parsly of each half a drachm, Hellebore black and white of each six grains, clarified Honey a pound and an half, mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art, also you may keep the Species by itself.  
A. It takes away by the roots daily evils coming of melancholy, falling-sickness, vertigo, convulsions, megrim, leprosy, and many other infirmities, for my part I should be loath to take it inwardly unless upon desperate occasions, or in Clysters.   

Hiera Pachii, or Diacolocynthides. Nicholaus Alexandrinus.  
Take of Colocynthis, Agrick, Germander, Horehound, Stoechas of each ten drachms, Opopanax, Sagapenum, Parsly seeds, round Birthwort roots, white Pepper of each five drams, Spicknard, Cinnamon, Myrrh, Indian Leaf, Saffron of each four drachms, let the Gums be bruised in a mortar, the rest fiefted, all of them made into an Electuary with clarified Honey, 
* which is indeed the triple weight.  three pound, three ounces and five drachms.  
A. It helps the falling-sickness, madness, and the pain in the head called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises, pains in the loins and backbone, hardness of women's breasts, putrefaction of meat in the stomach and sour belchings.   

Tryphera minor Foenon. Mesue.  
Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, Bellericks, Indian, and Emblicks, Nutmegs of each five drachms, the seeds of 〈◊〉, the roots of Asarabacca, Origanum of Persia, or Dictamni of Crect, black Pepper, Olibanum, Bishop's weed, Ginger, Tamaris, Indian Spicknard, Schoenanthus, Cyperus roots of each half an ounce Steel prepared twenty drachms, let the Myrobalans be roasted a little with fresh butter, let the rest being powdered be sprinkled with a little oil of sweet Almonds, then add to them, Musk a drachm, and with three times their weight in clarified Honey make them into an Electuary according to art.  
A. It helps the imoderate flowing of the terms in women, and the Hemorrhoyds in men, it helps weakness of the stomach and restores colour lost, It frees the body from crude humours, and strengthens the bladder, helps melancholy, and rectifies the distempers of the speen.   

Tryphera Solutive, Renodeus.  
Take of Diagrydium ten drachms, of the best Turbith an ounce and an half, Cardamons the less, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mace, of each three drachms, Yellow Sanders, Liquoris, sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce, Acorus, Schaenanth of each a drachm, preserved Citron pills, Roses of each three drachms; Violets two drachms, Penedies four ounces, Sugar-Candy half a pound, Honey well clarified in juice of Apples a pound, make an Electuary of them according to art.  
A. The Diagrydium and Turbith are purging, the rest are all cordial, but what to make of them put together I know not, therefore I leave them and pass to—    

PILLS.  
A. PILLS in Greek are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. in Latin Pilulae, which signifies little Balls, because they are made up in such a form, that they may be the better swallowed down, by reason of the offensiveness of their taste.  
A. They were first invented for the purging of the head, (however Physicians have since ordered the business) because the matter there offending is not so soon taken away by any other physic.  

Pilulae Alephanginae, or Aromatical Pills. Mesue  
Take of Cinnamon, Cloves, Cardamons, Nutmegs, Mace, Calamus Aromaticus, Carpobalsamum, or the seeds of Angelica, Schaenanth, wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, red Roses, dried Wormwood of each half an ounce, let these being grossly bruised be infused twenty four hours in four pints of water, then boil them over a gentle fire till the third part be consumed, strain them and in the liquor dissolve a pound of Aloes, then having drawn off the water, either in hot ashes or a bath, ad to it Myrrh and Mastic of each half an ounce, Saffron two drachms, syrup of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it up into a mass.  
A. This receipt differs much from that which Mesue left to posterity, perhaps the College followed Renodaeus more closely in it than they did Mesue, but some question whether Renodaeus or the College either can amend the recepts of Mesue; the chief alterations are, Mastich, Asarabacca roots, and Indian Spicknard, of each an ounce, is totally left out, besides all the Simples till you come to the Wormwood are set down but half so much in quantity as Mesue prescribed them, some other small alterations are also in most of the quantities, But I must return to my scope.  
A. It cleanseth both stomach and brain of gross and putrified humours, and sets the senses free when they are thereby troubled, it cleanseth the brain offended by ill humours, wind etc. helps vertigo, and headaches, and strengthens the brain exceedingly, helps concoction, and strengthens the stomach, I have often made experience of it upon my own body, and alwales with good success in such occasions, and therefore give me leave to commend it to my country men, for a wholesome cleansing medicine, strengthening, no ways violent, one drachm taken at night, going to bed, will work gently next day, if the party be weak you may give less, if strong, more.   

Aloe Rosata. Hier. Fabr. ab Aquamp.  
Take of clear Aloes succotrina in powder four ounces, the juice of Damask Roses clarified four pound, mix them together, and digest them in the sun or else in a bath, till all the moisture is drawn away, then infuse it again in so much more juice, and evaporate away the moisture again, do so four times, then keep the 
a by mass, always understand the composition brought into such a thickness, that you may easily with your fingers make it into pills.  mass to be made into pills.  
A. It is a gallant gentle purger of choler, frees the stomach from superfluous humours, opens stops, and other infirmities of the body, proceeding from choler or phlegm, as yellow Jaundice etc. and strengthens the body exceedingly.   

Pills of washed Aloes. Augustani.  
Take of Aloes washed with the juice or Damask Roses, an ounce, Agrik trochiscated three drachms, mastic two drams, Species Diamoschu dulce half a drachm, syrup of Damask Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It purgeth both brain, stomach, bowels and eyes of putrified humours, and also strengthens them.   

Pilulae Assaireth. Avicenna.  
Take of Species Hiera Picra Galeni an ounce; Mastic, Citron Myrobalans of each half an ounce, Aloes two ounces, the syrup of Stoechas as much as is sufficient, make of them a mass according to art.  
A. It purgeth choler and phlegm.   

Pills of Bdellium. Mesue.  
Take of Bdellium ten drachms, Myrobalans, Bellericks, Emblicks, and blacks of each five drachms, flakes of Iron, Leek seeds of each three drachms, 
a a kind of seashel to be had at the Apothecaries.  Conchula Veneris burnt, Coral burnt, Amber of each a drachm and an half, Pearls half an ounce, 
b not (insuse) as the College prescribe.  dissolve the Bdellium in juice of Leeks, and with so much syrup of juice of Leeks as is sufficient make it into a mass according to art.   

Pills of Eupatorium. Mesue.  
Take of Citron Myrobalans, the juice of Eupatorium that is 
b Maudlin.  Ageratum, of the juice of Wormwood of each three drams Rhubarb three drachms and an half, Mastic one drachm, Saffron half a drachm, of the best Aloes five drachms, syrup of the juice of Endive as much as is sufficient to make it into a mass, into which form it according to art.  
A. Having compared this receipt of Mesue, with reason I find it a gallant gentle purge, and strengthening, fitted for such bodies as are much weakened by diseases of choler, The Author apropriates it to such as have tertian agues, the yellow Jaundice, obstructions or stops of the liver, half a drachm taken at night going to bed, will work with an ordinary body, the next day by noon; the truth is, I am sparing in relating the doses of most purging physics because they are to be regulated according to the strength of the patient etc. Physic is not to be presumed upon by Dunces, lest they meet with their matches and overmatches too.   

Pilulae de Hiera cum Augarrico: from the Agustine Physicians. Mesue.  
Take of Galens species hiera Picra, Agrick Trochiscated of eace half an ounce, of the best Aloes an ounce, Honey-Roses às much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art.  
A. I refer you to Species Hiera Picra Galeni, and to Agrick in the simples for the virtues of them.   

Pilulae Imperialis. Fernelius.  
Take of the best Aloes two ounces, choice Rhubarb an ounce and an half, Agrick trochiscated, the leaves of Senna of each an ounce, Cinnamon three drachms, Ginger two drachms, Nutmeg, Cloves, Spicknard, Mastic of each one drachm, with syrup of Violets make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It cleanseth the body of mixed humours, and strengthens the stomach exceedingly, as also the bowels, liver and natural spirit, it is good for cold natures, and cheers the spirits.   

Mastich Pills. Fernelius.  
Take of Mastic two ounces, Aloes four ounces, Agrick trochiscated, Species hiera simplicis Galeni of each one ounce and an half, bring them into a mass with Malaga wine according to art.  
A. They purge very gently, but strengthen much, both head, brain, eyes, belly and reins.   

Pestilential Pills. Ruffus.  
Take of the best Aloes two ounces, choice Myrrh and Saffron of each one ounce, with syrup of the juice of Lemons make them into a mass.  
A. A scruple of these taken at night going to bed is a notable preservative in pestilential times.   

Stomach pills. Mesue.  
Take of Aloes six drachms, Mastic, red Roses of each two drachms, with syrup of Wormwood, make them into a mass according to art.  
A. They cleanse and strengthen the stomach, they cleanse but gently, strengthen much, help digestion.   

Pilulae de Succino. Andrea's, Aurif.  
Take of white Amber, Mastic of each two drachms, Aloes five drachms, Agrick a drachm and an half, long Birthwort half a drachm, syrup of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It amends the evil state of a woman's body, strengthens conception, and takes away what hinders it, it gently purgeth choler and phlegm, and leaves a binding strengthening quality behind it. You may take the pains in all such small recepts to look the Simples and then your reason will tell you the Compositions have the same effects, I am unwilling to write tautology, and as unwilling my book should swell too big.   

Pills of Rhubarb. Mesue.  
Take of choice Rhubarb three drachms, Citron Myrobalans, Trochisci Diarrhodon of each three drachms and a half juice of Liquoris and juice of Wormwood, Mastic of each one drachm, the seeds of Smallage and Fennel of each half a drachm, Species Hiera picra Simp. Galeni ten drachms, with juice of Fennel 
* and why not clarified? can they give but a piece of a reason for it? I am deceived it Mesue appoint not Fennel water.  not clarified and Honey so much as is sufficient, make it into a mass.  
A. It purgeth choler opens obstructions of the liver help the yellow Jaundice and dropsies in the beginning, strengtheneth the stomach and lungs.   

Pilulae extribus. Fernelius.  
Take of Mastic two ounces, Aloes four ounces, Agrick trochiscated, Species Hiera simplex of each an ounce and an half, choice Rhubarb two ounces, Cinnamon half an ounce, with syrup of Cichory, make it into a mass according to art.  
A. View the Simples, it may be in searching for this you may meet with something else may do you good.   

Pills of Agrick. Mesue.  
Take of Agrick three drachms, Orris roots, Mastic, Horehound of each a drachm, Turbith five drachms, Species Hiera Picra Galeni, half an ounce, Colocynthis, Sarcocolla, of each two drachms, Myrrh one drachm, Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass.  
A. It was invented to cleanse the breast and lungs of phlegm, it works pretty tithly therefore requires a good head-piece to direct it.   

Agregative Pills, or Polychrestae. Mesue.  
Take of Citron Myrobalans, of the best Rhubarb of each half an ounce, juice of 
a Maudlin.  Eupatorium and of Wormwood made thick, of each two drachms, Diagrydium five drachms, Myrobalans, Chebs, and Indian, Agrick, Colocynthis, Polypodium, of each two drachms, Turbith, Aloes of each six drachms, Mastic, Roses, Sal. Gem. Epithimum, Annis seeds, Ginger of each one d achm, with syrup of Damask Roses so much as is sufficient, make it up into a mass according to art.  
A. It purgeth the head of Choler, phlegm, and melancholy and that stoutly, it is good against quotidian agues, and faults in the stomach and liver, yet because it is well corrected if you take but half a drachm at a time, and keep yourself warm, I suppose you may take it without danger.   

Pilulae Arabica. Nicholaus.  
Take of the best Aloes four ounces, Briony roots, Myrobalans, Citrons, Chebs, Indian, Bellerick, and Emblick, Mastic Diagrydium, Asarabacca, Roses of each an ounce, Castorium three drachms, Saffron one drachm, with syrup of Wormwood make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It helps such women as are not sufficiently purged in their labour, helps to bring away what a careless Midwife hath left behind, purgeth the head, helps headache, megrim, vertigo, and purgeth the stomach of vicious humours, besides Author; say it preserves the sight and hearing and preserves the mind in vigour, and causeth joyfulness, driving away melancholy, 'tis like it may, but have a care you take not to much of it   

Pilulae Arthriticae. Nicholaus.  
Take of hermodactils, Turbith, Agrick of each half an ounce, Cassia lignea, Indian spicknard, cloves, Xylobalsamun, or wood of Aloes, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Mace Galanga, Ginger, Mastich, Assafaetida, the seeds of Annis, Fennel, Saxifrage, Asparagus, Bruscus, Roses, Gromwel, Sal. Gem. of each two drachms, Scammony an ounce, of the best Aloes the weight of them all, Juice of Chamepytis made thick with Sugar so much as is sufficient, or syrup of the juice of the same so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass.  
A. As I remember the Author appoints but a drachm of Scammony, which is but the eight part of an ounce, and then will the receipt be pretty moderate, whereas now it is too too violent, I know well enough it is the opinion of Doctors that Aloes retards the violent working of Scammony, I could never find it, and I am the worst in the world to pin my faith upon another man's sleeve, and I would as willingly trust my life in the hands of a wild Bear as in the hands of that monster called TRADITION, If but a dram of Scammony be put in, then may a man safely (if not to much weakened) take a drachm of it at a time, It helps the gout and other pains in the joints, comforts and strengthens both brain and stomach, and consumes diseases whose original comes of of phlegm.   

Pilulae Auriae. Nicholaus.  
Take of Aloes, Diagrydium of each five drachms, red Roses, the seeds of Smallage of each two drachms and an half, Annis and Fennel seeds of each one drachm and an half, Mastic, Saffron, Troche, Alhandal of each one drachm, being all beaten, let them be made into a mass with Honey of Roses according to art.  
A. They are held to purge the head, to quicken the senses, especially the sight, and to expel wind from the bowels, but works something harshly.   

Pilulae Cochiae. Rhasis.  
Take of Species Hiera picra Galeni ten drachms, Colocynthis three drachms and one scruple, Diagrydium two drams and an half, Turbith, Stoechas of each five drachms, syrup of Stoechas so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass.  
A. Gesner and Math. de Grad put in only two scruples and an half of Diagrydium, belike because they would not have it work so violently, but Mesue, Rhasis, and Nicholaus Myrepsus prescribe two drachms and an half as is here in the Dispensatory, only Mesue appoints it to be made up with syrup of wormwood.   

Pilulae Cochiae with Hellebore  
Take of the powder of the pills before prescribed the powder of the bark of the roots of black Hellebore an ounce, make it into a mass with 〈◊〉 of Stoechas according to art.  
A. The former purgeth the head of phlegm, and therefore is fit for Lethargies, this of melancholy, and is therefore fit for mad folks, if melancholy be the cause.   

Pilulae foetide majores. Mesue.  
Take of Sagapenum Amoniacum Opopananx, Bdellium, Colocynthis, the seeds of wild Rue, or garden Rue dried, Aloes, Epithimum of each five drachms, Turbith half an ounce, Scammony three drachms, Spurg prepared, Hermodactils of each two drachms, Ginger a drachm and an half, Cinnamon, Spicknard of India, Saffron, Castorium of each one drachm, Euphorbium two scruples, dissolve the Gums in juice of Leeks, and make them into a mass with syrup made with the juice of Leeks and Sugar according to art.  
A. They purge gross and raw phlegm, and diseases thereof arising, Gouts of all sorts, pains in the backbone and other joints, is good against Leprosies and other such like infirmities of the skin.   

Pills of Fumitory. Avicenna.  
Take of Myrobalans, Citrons, Chebs and Indian, Diagrydium of each five drachms; Aloes seven drachms; let all of them being bruised, be thrice moistened with juice of Fumitory and thrice suffered to dry, then brought into a mass with syrup of Fumitory.  
A. It purgeth melancholy from the liver and spleen, sharp, Choleric, and addust humours, salt phlegm, and therefore: helps scabs, and itch.   

Pills of hermodactils the greater. Mesue.  
Take of Sagapenum six drachms, Opopanax three drams, dissolve them in a sufficient quantity of the juice of Coleworts warmed, and strain them through a convenient linen rag, then boil them a little; then take of Hermodactils, Aloes, Citron Myrobalans, Turbith, Colocinthis, soft Bdellium of each six drachms, Castorium, Sarcocolla, Euphorbium, the seed either of wild or garden Rue, and of Smallage of each three drachms, Saffron a drachm and an half, with syrup of the juice of Coleworts made with Hony, make it into a mass according to art.  
A. They are good against the Gout and other cold afflictions of the joints.   

Pilulae Indae. Mesue out of Haly.  
Take of Indian Myrobalans, black Hellebore, Polypodium of the Oak of each five drachms; Epithimum, Stoechas of each six drachms, Agrick, Lapis Lazuli often washed, Troches Alhandal, sal indi of each half an ounce, juice of Maudlin made thick, Indian Spicknard of each two drachms, Cloves one drachm, Species hiera picra simplex Galeni twelve drachms, with syrup of the juice of Smallage make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It wonderfully prevails against afflictions coming of melancholy, Cancers which are not ulcerated, Leprosy, Evils of the mind coming of melancholy, as sadness, fear etc. quartan agues, jaundices, pains and infirmities of the spleen.   

Pills of Lapis Lazuli. Mesue.  
Take of Lapis Lazuli oftentimes washed five drachms, Epithimum, Polipodium, Agrick of each an ounce, Scamony, black Hellebore, Sal Indi of each two drachms and an half, Cloves, Annis seeds of each half an ounce, Hiera picra Galeni fifteen drachms, with syrup of the juice of Succory make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It hath the same effects against melancholy with the former.   

Pilulae Lucis majores Mesue.  
Take of Roses, Violets, Wormwood, Colocinthis, Turbith Cubebs, Calamus Aromaticus, Nutmegs, Indian Spicknard, Epithimum, Carpobalsamum or instead thereof Cardamons, Xylobalsamom or wood of Aloes, the seeds of 〈◊〉 or Hartwort, Rue, Annis, Fennel and Smallage, Scoenanthus, Mastich, Asarabacca roots, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cassia lignea, Saffron, 〈◊〉 of each two drachms, Myrobalans' Citrons Chebuls, Indian, Bellerick and Emblick. Rhubarb of each half an ounce, Agrick, Senna of each five drams, Eyebight six drachms, Aloes succotrina the weight of them all with syrup of the juice of Fennel make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It purgeth mixed humours from the head, and clears it of such excrements as hinder the fight.   

Pills of Mechoacan. Renodaeus.  
Take of Mechoacan half an ounce, Turbith three drachms, the leaves of 
Spurgeflax,  Thymelaae steeped in Vinegar and dried, the seeds of dwarf-Elder or Walwort, Agrick trochiseated of each two drachms, the roots of Spurge prepared, Mastic of each one drachm and an half, Mace, Cinnamon, Sal Gem of each two scruples, beat them all into powder, and with syrup made with sugar and the juice of Orris roots, make it into a mass for pills according to art.  
A. They purge phlegm very violently.   

Pilulae Rudij.  
Take of Colocynthis six drachms, of the best Agrick, Diagridium, black Hellebore, Turbith of each four drachms, Aloes Succotrina one ounce, Species diarhodon abbatis half an ounce; let all be beaten (the species excepted) and but grossly neither, and 
it must be close stopped, else the Composition will not be worth a louse at the 8, day's end.  infused in the sun in the best Aqua vitae so much that it may over-top the powders the breadth of eight fingers, then infuse the Diarhodon abbatis in Aqua vitae in like manner for four days, then strain them strongly and mix both these liquors together, and put them in a glass Alembick, and by distillation draw off the moisture till the substance at bottom be left of a fit thickness to make pills.  
A. As this is the dearest, so in my opinion is it most excellent in operation of all the pills in the Dispensatory, being of a quick searching nature, it cleanseth both head and body of Choler, phlegm, and melancholy, it must not be taken in any great quantity, half a dram is sufficient for the strongest body, let the weaker take less.   

Pilulae Sine quibus esse Nelo. Nicholaus.  
Take of washed Aloes fourteen drachms, Myrobalans, Citrons, Chebuls, Emblick, Bellericks, and Indian, Rhubarb, Mastic, Wormwood, red Roses, Violets, Senna, Agrick, Doddar of each a drachm, Diagrydium fix drachms and an half, with syrup of the juice of Fennel made with Honey make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It purgeth phlegm, choler, and melancholy from the head, makes the sight and 〈◊〉 good, and giveth ease to a burdened brain.   

Pills of Spurge. Fernelius.  
Take of the bark of the roots of Spurge the less, steeped twenty four hours in vinegar and juice of Purslain two drachms, grains of 
a kind of Spurg, three of the seeds of which some Authors (and they good ones too) say, will give a man a sufficient purge  Palma Christi torrefied, by number forty, Citron Myrobalans a drachm and an half, Germander, Chamepitys, Spicknard, Cinnamon of each two scruples, being beaten into fine powder with an ounce of Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose waeer, and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient let it be made into a mass.  
A. I could say if I would and prove it too, that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dislolved is enough to make six times so much into a mass, but because the receipt (in my eyes) seems more fitting for a horse than for a man, I leave it.   

Pills of Eupborbium. Mesue.  
Take of Euphorbium, Colocynthis, Agrick, Bdellium, Sagapenum of each two drachms, Aloes five drachms, with syrup made of the juice of Leeks make it into a mass.  
A. The pills are exceeding good 〈◊〉 dropsies, pains in the loins and gouts coming of a moist cause.   

Pills of Opopanax. Mesue.  
Take of Opopanax, Sagapenum, Hermodactils, Bdellium Ammoniacum, Colocynthis of each five drachms, Saffron, Castorium, Myrrh, Ginger, black and long Pepper, 〈◊〉 lignea Myrobalans, Citrons, Bellericks, and Emblicks, of each one drachm, Scammony two drachms, Turbith half an ounce, Aloes twelve drams, the Gums being infused in Colewort water make them up into a mass with syrup of the juice of Coleworts.  
A. It helps tremble, palfies, gouts of all sorts, cleanseth the joints, and is helpful for such as are troubled with cold afflictions of the nerves.   

Pilulae turpeti Aurioe. Mesue.  
Take of the best Turbith sixteen drachms, Aloes an ounce and an half, Citron Myrobalans' ten drachms, red Roses, Mastich of each six drams, Saffron three drams, beat them into powder, and with syrup of Wormwood make it-into a mass.  
A. They purge choler and phlegm and that with as much gentleness as can be desired, also they strengthen the stomach and liver, and help digestion.   

Pilulae de Cynoglosso. Fernelius.  
Take of Myrrh six drams, Olibanum five drams, Opium, the seeds of Henbane, the roots of Houndstongue dry, of each half an ounce, Saffron, Castorium, of each a dram and an half, with syrup of Stoechas make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It stays hot rewms that fall down upon the lungnes, therefore is good in Phthisicks, also it mitigates pain, a scruple is enough to take at a time going to bed.   

Landanum.  
Take of Theban of Opium extracted in spirit of wine one ounce, Saffron extracted in like manner, a drachm and an half, Castorium one drachm, then let them all be taken with the tincture of half an ounce of the Species of Diambra new made in spirit of wine, adding (for pleasantness sake) Amber grease and musk of each six grains, oil of 〈◊〉 ten drops, then evaporate away the moisture in a warm bath and leave the 〈◊〉 for use.  
A. It was invented (and a gallant invention it is) to mitigate 
have a care how you be too busy with such medicines lest you make a man sleep till doomsday,  violent pains, stop the 〈◊〉 that trouble the brain in fevers, (but beware of Opiates in the beginnings of 〈◊〉) to provoke sleep, take not above two gnains of it at a time, going to bed, if that provoke not sleep, the next night you may make bold with three.   

Pilulae Scribonii.  
Take of Sagapenum and Myrrh of each two drachms, Opium, Cardamons, Castorium of each one drachm, white pepper half a drachm, Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a mass according to art.  
A. It is apropriated to such as have phthisicks and such as spit blood, but aught to be newly made, a scruple is sufficient taken going to bed, Galen was the Author of it.   

Pills of Styrax. Mesue.  
Take of liquid Styrax, Frankincense, Myrrh, juice of Liquoris, Opium, of each equal parts, make them into a mass for pills, with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Poppies according to art.  
A. They help such as are troubled with defluxion of Rewm, Coughs, and provoke sleep to such as cannot sleep for coughing.  
A. I have now done with pills, only take notice that such as have Diagrydium (otherwise called Scammony) in them, work violently and are to be taken early in the morning, with discretion and administered with due consideration, the other work more gently so that you may take a scruple of them at night going to bed and follow your employments next day without danger.    

TROCHES.  
A. IF any cavil at this name and think it hardly English, let them give a better and I shall be thankful, I know no other English name but will fall far below it.  
A. They have gotten many Greek names, almost as many as a Welsh man, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, The Latins besides the Greek names Trochisci call them Pastilli and Placentula.  
A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth, yet they are usually made into little flat thin oaks of a 〈◊〉 or twenty grains in weight, plus minus, some print images (as of a serpent upon troches of vipers) upon them, some gilled them with leaf gold, some do neither.  
A. They were first invented by the Ancients that powders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer, for the virtues of powders will soon exhale by intromission of air, which the thick body of Troches resist, also such as are pectoral 〈◊〉 he easier carried in one's pocket.  

Traches of Wormwood. Mesue.  
Take of red Roses, 
* it seems the 〈◊〉 give the name Absinthium ponticum with some other distinctions not herementioned, both to Roman and Common wormwood.  Wormwood, Annis of each two drams, Rhubarb, juice of 〈◊〉 or Mandlin, 〈◊〉, the seeds of 〈◊〉, bitter Almonds, Indian Spicknard, 〈◊〉, Indian leaf, or 〈◊〉 of eaah a drachm, juice of Succory as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art.  
A. They strengthen the stomach exceedingly, open 〈◊〉, or stops of the belly or bowels, strengthen digestion, open the passages of the liver, help the yellow Jaundice, and consume 〈◊〉 of the body.   

Trocbisci Alexiterii. Renodaeus.  
Take of the roots of Gentian, Tormentill, Orris Florentine, Zedoary of each two dracums, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace of each half a drachm, Ginger a drachm, Angelica roots three drachms, Coriander seeds prepared, Roses, of each one drachm, dried Citron pills, two drachms, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all into powder, and with juice of Liquoris softened in Hippocras, six ounces, make them into a soft past which you may form into either Troches or small rolls which you please.  
A. It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly, helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits, resists poison, and and the pestilence, and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places or corrupt air, only taking a very small quantity now and then.   

Trocbisci Aliptae Moschatae. Nicholaus.  
Take of pure 
a called sometimes 〈◊〉.  Labdanum bruised three ounces, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half, Benzoin an ounce, wood of Aloes two drachms, Ambergris one drachm, Camphire half a drachm, Musk half a scruple, roof water so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches.  
A. It is singular good for such as are Asthmatick and can hardly fetch their breath, as also for young children, whose throat is so narrow, that they can hardly swallow down their milk.   

Troches of Annis seeds. Mesue.  
Take of Annis seeds, the juice of Maudlin made thick of each two drachms, the seeds of Dil, Spicknard, Mastic, Indian leaf or Mace, the leaves of Wormwood, Asarabacca, Smallage, bitter Almond of each half a drachm, Aloes two drachms, juice of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art.  
A. They open obstructions of the liver, and that very gently, and therefore diseases coming thereof, help quartan agues.   

Trocbisci 〈◊〉 albi, or Pectoral Rowls.  
Take of white Sugar a pound, white Sugar Candy, Penidies of each four ounces, Liquoris six drachms, the roots of Orris Florentine half an ounce, white Starch an ounce and an half, Mussilage of Gum Traganth made with Rose water, so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches, three grains of Musk and four grains of Amber grease being added to it, also you may make it iuto rowls which they commonly call pectoral rowls, and if you please you may make it without Musk and Amber grease.   

Trocbisei 〈◊〉 nigri. Rhafis.  
Take of juice of Liquoris, white Sugar of each ten 〈◊〉, Gum Traganth, sweet Almonds blanched of each six drams, Mussilage of Quinces as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches.  
A. Both this and the former will melt in ones mouth, and in that manner to be used by such as are troubled with coughs colds, 〈◊〉 or want of voice, the former is most in use, but in my opinion the last is most effectual.   

Troches of Barberries. Mesue.  
Take of dried Barberries, juice of Liquoris, Spodium, Purslain seeds of each three drachms, red Roses six drachms, Indian Spicknard, Saffron, white Starch, Gum Traganth of each one drachm, Citrul seeds three drachms and an half, Camphire half a drachm, make it up with Manna made soft with the juice of Barberries, according to art.  
They wonderfully cool the heat of the liver, reins, and bladder, breast and stomach, and stop looseness, cools the heat in fevers.   

Troches of Camphire. Mesue  
Take of red Roses four drachms, Spodium, Liquoris of each two drachms, of the four greater cold seeds, Gum Traganth, Saffron, Gum Arabic, Indian Spicknard of each one dram, yellow Sanders two drachms and an half, wood of Aloes, 
* Psyllium.  Cardamons the greater, white starch, Camphire, of each two 〈◊〉, white Sugar, Manna of each three drams, Muisialage of the seeds of flea wort, made with Rose water as much as is sufficient to make it into Troches.  
A 〈◊〉 exceeding good in burning fevers, heat of blood and chollen together with hot distempers of the stomach and liver, and extreme thirst coming thereby, also it is good àgainst the yellow Jaundice, Phthisicks and Hectic fevers.   

Troches of Capers. Mesue.  
Take of the bark of Caper roots, the seeds of Agnus Castus of each six drams, Gum Ammoniacum, Nigella seeds, Calaminth, Acorus, juice of Maudlin made thick, bitter Almonds, the leaves of Rue, round Birthwort roots, the seeds of Water cresses of each two drachms, Coterach, 〈◊〉 of Cyperus of each one drachm, dissolve the 〈◊〉 in sharp Vinegar, then mix the rest of the powders with it that so they may be made up into Troches.  
A. They open stops of the liver and spleen, and help diseases thereof coming as Rickets, Hypocondriack melancholy etc.   

Trochisci Cypheos. Damocrat.  
Take of the pulp of Raisins of the Sun, Turpentine boiled, of each three ounces, Myrrh, Schoenanthus of each one ounce and an half, Calamus Aromaticus nine drachms, Cinnamon half an ounce, Bdellium, Indian Spicknard, Cassia lignea, Cyperus, Juniper berries of each three drachms, Aspalathus or Lignum Aloes, two drachms and an half, Saffron one drachm, clarified Honey so much as is sufficient, let the Myrrh and Bdellium be ground so long in a mortar with a little wine till it be brought to the thickness of Honey, then add the Honey with the pulp of Raisins, last of all, all the rest beaten into fine powder, and so make them into Troches according to art.  
A. It is excellent good against inward ulcers in what part of the body so ever they be.   

Trochisci Diarhodon. Mesue.  
Take of the flowers of red Roses six drams, Spicknard, wood of Aloes of each two drachms, Liquoris three drachms, Spodium one drachm, Saffron half a drachm, Mastic two drachms, make them up into Troches with white-Wine according to art.  
A. They wonderfully ease fevers coming of phlegm, as quotidian fevers, agues, Epialos etc. pains in the belly.   

Trochisci de Eupatorio. Mesue.  
Take of Manna, the juice of Maudlin made thick of each an ounce, red Roses half an ounce, Spodium (that is burnt Ivory) three drachms and an half, Indian Spicknard three drachms, Rhubarb, 〈◊〉, Annis seeds, of each two drachms, with Doddar water let them be made into Troches, let the Manna be dissolved with the juice, than the rest of the powders sprinkled in by degrees.  
A. Obstructions or stops and swellings above nature, both of the liver and spleen, are cured by the inward taking of these Troches, and diseases thereof coming, as yellow and black Jaundice, the beginning of dropsies etc.   

Trochisci De Gallia Moschata. Mesue.  
Take of wood of Aloes five drachms, Amber grease three drachms, Musk one drachm, with a sufficieut quantity of mussilage of Gum Traganth made in Rose water, make them into Troches according to art, and dry them in the shadow.  
A. They strengthen the brain and heart, and by consequence both vital and animal spirit, and cause a sweet breath.   

Trochisci Gordonii.  
Take of the four greater and four lesser cold seeds cleansed, the seeds of white Poppies, Mallows, Cotton, Purslain, Quinces, Myrtles, Gum Traganth and Arabic, Pinenuts, fistick Nuts, Sugar Candy, Penids, Liquoris, French Barley, mussilage of 
a a psyllium.  Fleawort, sweet Almonds of each an ounce, Bowl Armenick, Dragon's blood, Spodium, Roses, Myrrh, of each two ounces, let them being beaten into powder be made into Troches with 
* viz. water and honey.  Hydromel.  
A. They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder, and all other inward ulcers whatsoever, and ease fevers coming thereby, being of a fine cooling, slippery, heating nature.   

Trochisci 〈◊〉. Andromacus out of Galen.  
Take of 
o Marum.  herb Mastich, Asarabacca, Marjoram, Aspalathus or yellow Sanders, of each two drachms, Schoenanth, Calamus Aromaticus, Valerian, Xylobalsamum, or wood of Aloes, Opobalsamum or oil of 〈◊〉 by expression, Cinnamon, Costus of each three drachms, Myrrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Indian Spicknard, Saffron, Cassia lignea, of each six drams, Amomus, or Cardamons the smaller an ounce and an half, Mastich a drachm, Spanish wine as much as is sufficient, first let the Saffron being in powder be diligently ground with the Wine, let then the Myrrh and Mastic both in fine powder be added, than the Opobalsamum, 〈◊〉 last of all the rest of the powders, and so made up into troches, and dried in the shadow.  
A. They are very seldom or never used but in other compositions, yet naturally they heat cold stomaches, help digestion, strengthen the heart and brain.   

Trochisci Hysterici. Renodaeus.  
Take of Assa foetida, Galbanum of each two drachms and in half, Myrrh two drachms, Castorium a drachm and an half, Asarabacca, Birthwort, Savin, Featherfew, Nep of each one drachm, Dittany half a drachm, either with juice of Rue, or decoction of the same make it into troches according to art.  
A. These troches are applied to the feminine gender, help fits of the mother, expel both birth and afterbirth, cleanse women after labour, and expel the relics of a careless Midwife.   

Trochisci de Lacca. Mesue.  
Take of Gum Lacca cleansed, the juices of Liquoris, Maudlin, Wormmood and Barberries all made thick, Rhubarb, long Birthwort, Costus, Asarabacca, bitter Almonds, Maddir, Annis, Smallage, Schoenanth of each a drachm, with the decoction of Birth wort, or Schoenanth, or the juice of Maudlin or Wormwood make them into Troches according to art.  
A. It helps stops of the liver and spleen, and fevers thence coming, it expels wind, purgeth by urine and resists dropsies.   

Troches of Terra Lemnia, Mesue according to Fernelius.  
Take of Dragon's blood, Gum Arabic torrefied, Troches of Ramich, red Roses, the seeds of Roses, white starch torrefied, Spodium, Acacia, Hypocystis, lapis Haematitis, 
* Pomegranate flowers.  Balaustines, Bolarmenick, terra Lemnia, red Coral, Amber of each two drachms, Pearls, Gum Traganth, black Poppy seeds of each a drachm and an half, Purslain seeds a little torrefied, Hartshorn burned, Frankincense, Cypress nuts, Saffron of each two drachms, either with juice or water of Plantain make it into Troches according to art.  
A. If you will have it with Opium (saith Mesue) you may add two drachms of it to the composition, and indeed in external applications if any inflammation, or fever be, I think it better with Opium than without.  
A. It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body, and for it, it is excellent well then, for the bloodyflux take half a drachm of them inwardly (being beaten into powder) in red wine every morning, for spitting of blood use it in like manner in Plantain water, for pissing of blood 〈◊〉 it into the bladder, for bleeding at the nose, either snuff it up, or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oil, for the immoderate flowing of the terms, inject it up the womb with a syringe, but first mix it with plantain water, for the hemorrhoids or wounds apply it to the place bleeding.   

Troches of Myrrh. Rhasis.  
Take of Myrrh three drachms, the flower of Lupins five drachms, the leaves of 〈◊〉, Horse minus, Penyroyal, the seeds of Cummin, the roots of Maddir, Assafoetida, Sagapenum, Opopanax of each two drachms, dissolve the 〈◊〉 in Vinegar of Squils', and with juice of Mugwort make it up into Troches.  
A. They provoke the terms in women, and that with great ease to such as have them come down with pain.   

Trochisci Polyidae Sphragiss. Andromacus out of Galen.  
Take of 
a Balaustins.  Pomegranate flowers twelve drachms, Alum three drachms, Frankincense, Myrrh of each half an ounce, Copperis two drachms, Bulls gall six drachms, Aloes an ounce, austere Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art.  
A. They are very good being outwardly applied, both in green wounds and ulcers.   

Pastilli Andronis. Galen.  
Take of Pomegranate flowers ten drachms, Copperis twelve drachms, unripe Galls, Birthwort, Frankincense, of each an ounce, Alum, Myrrh of each half an ounce, 
o it may be they mean white Copperis.  Misy two drachms, with eighteen ounces of austere Wine make it into Troches according to art.  
A. This also is apropriated to wounds ulcers and fistulas, it clears the ears and represseth all excressences of flesh, cleanseth the filth of the bones.   

Trochisci Musae. Galen.  
Take of Alum, Aloes, Copperas, Myrrh, of each six drams, Crocomagma, Saffron of each three drachms, Pomegranate flowers half an ounce, Wine and Honey of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into Troches according to art.  
A. Their use is the same with the former.   

Crocomagma of Damocrates. Galen.  
Take of Saffron a hundred drachms, red Roses, Myrrh of each fifty drachms, white Starch 
* I think they mean gum-arabic.  Gum of each thirty drams, Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches.  
A It is very expulsive, heats and strengthens the heart and stomach.   

Troches of wood of Aloes.  
Take of wood of Aloes, red Roses of each two drachms, Mastic, Cinnamon, Cloves, Indian Spicknard, Nutmegs, Cardamons greater and lesser, Cubebs, Gallia Moschata, Pasneps, Citron pills, Mace of each a drachm and an half, Amber grease, Musk of each half a Scruple, with Honey of Raisins make them into Troches.  
A. It strengthens the heart, stomach and liver, takes away heart-qualms, faintings, and stinking breath, and resisteth the 〈◊〉.   

Trochisci 〈◊〉. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of Sorrel sixteen ounces, red Rose leaves one ounce, Myrtle berries two ounces, boil them a little together, and 〈◊〉 them, add to the decoction, Gall well beaten three ounces, boil them again a little, then put in these following things in fine powder, take of red Roses an ounce, yellow Saunder ten drachms, Gum Arabic an ounce & a half, 〈◊〉, Spodium of each an ounce, Myrtle berries four ounces, wood of Aloes, Cloves Mace, Nutmegs, of each half an ounce, sour Grapes seven drachms, mix them all together and let them dry upon a stone, and grind them again into powder, and make them into small Troches with one drachm of Camphire, and so much Rose water as is sufficient, and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk.  
A. They strengthen the stomach, heart and liver, as also the bowels, they help the Colic and fluxes of blood as also bleeding at the nose if you snuff but up the powder of them, disburden the body of salt fretting choleric humours.   

Troches of Bases. Mesue.  
Take of red Roses half an ounce, wood of Aloes two drachms, Mastich a drachm and an half, Roman Wormwood, Cinnamon, Indian Spicknard, Cassia lignea, Schoenanth of each one dram, old Wine, and decoction of the five opening roots, so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art.  
A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion, the Iliack passion, Hectic fevers, and dropfies in the beginning, and cause a good colour.   

Troches of Squils'. Galen.  
Take a Squill gathered about the beginning of July, of a mean bigness, white and full, the outward pill and that hard part to which the little roots stick, being taken away, wrap it up in past and roast it in an oven, till the past be dry, and Squill tender, which you may know by searching it with a scuer or bodkin, then take it out and beat it in a mortar, and mix with it of the powder of 
a A kind of Vetch.  white Orobus or instead thereof red Cicers eight ounces to each pound of Squills, make it into Troches of the weight of two drachms a piece, dry them in the upper part of the house, looking towards the south, often turning of them till they be dry, keep them in a pewter or glass vessel, not in lead.   

Troches of Spodium. Mesue.  
Take of red Roses twelve drachms, Spodium ten drachms, Sorrel seeds six drachms, Purslain seeds, Coriander seeds prepared, pulp of Sumach of each two drachms and an half, white Starch, Balaustines, Barberries, of each two drachms, Gum Arabic torrefied a drachm and an half, with juice of Grapes make them into Troches.  
A. They are of a fine cooling binding nature, excellent in fevers coming of Choler, especially if they be accompanied with a looseness, they also quench thirst.   

Troches of Sanders. Mesue.  
Take of the three sorts of Sanders of each an ounce, the seeds of Cucumbers, Gourds, Citruls, Purssain, Spodium of each half an ounce, Roses seven drachms, Juice of Barberries fix drachms, Bowl Armenick four drachms, Camphire one drachm, with Purslain water make it into Troches.  
A. The virtues are the same with the former.   

Troches of Vipers. Andromacus out. of Galen.  
Take of the flesh of Vipers, the skin, bowels, and fat, head, and tail being taken away, boiled with Dill and a little salt, eight ounces, the crumbs of pure white bread, two ounces, make them into Troches with the broth in which the Vipers were boiled, if you need liquor, and anoint them with Opobalsamum or oil of 〈◊〉 by expression, and dried in the shadow, in an open place, fifteen days, or something longer, often turning them, till they be well dried, then lay them up in a glass or stone vessel glazed, so may they be kept (close stopped) a whole year, yet it is better to make Treacle so soon as you have them, They which will keep them longer let them wipe off the dust which usually sticks to them, which in time will eat them through and through, so may you keep them three years.   

Trochisci Viticis, sive Agni Casti. Renodaeus.  
Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus, Roses, Lettuce, Balaustins of each a drachm; Ivory, Amber, of each a drachm and an half; Bowl Arminick washed in the water of 〈◊〉 grass two drachms; Plantain seed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Sassafras two scruples; with Mussilage of Quince seeds made with the water of water Lilly flowers, make them into Troches according to art.   

Trochisci albi. Rhasis.  
Take of Ceruse washed in Rose water ten drachms, Sarcocolla three drachms, white Starch two drachms, 〈◊〉 Arabic and 〈◊〉 of each one drachm. Camphire, Opium of each half a drachm, let them be made up into Troches, with milk according to art. Also if you please you may make them up without Opium.  
A. They are cool without Opium, but cooler with it, as also very drying, and are used in injections in Ulcers in the yard, and the running of the reins, etc.   

Troches of Winter-Cherries. Mesue.  
Take of the berries of Winter-Cherries three drachms, the seeds of Melons, Cucumbers, Citruls, Gourds, of each three drachm and an half; Gum Arabic Traganth, Olibanum, Dragon's blood, Pine nuts, bitter Almonds, white Poppy seeds, white Starch, juice of Liquoris, Bole Armenick of each six drams, the seeds of Smallage and Henbane, Amber, Earth of Lemnos, Opium of each two drams, with juice of the berries of fresh winter Cherries, or else with their decoction make them up into Troches according to art. Also you may prepare them without Opium.  
A. They potently provoke urine, and break the stone.   

Trochisci de Carabe. Mesue.  
Take of Amber six drams, burnt Hartshorn, Gum Arabic torrefied, red Correl burnt, Gum traganth, Acacia, Hypocistis, 〈◊〉, Mastich, Gum Lacca washed, black Poppy seeds torrefied, of each two drams; Frankincense, Saffron, Opium of each one dram and an half; Missilage of the seeds of 
* Psyllium  Flea-wort so much as is sufficient to make it up into Troches.  
A. They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body, the terms in women, the 〈◊〉 or piles, they also help ulcers in the breast and lungs.   

Trochisci Diacorrallion. Galen.  
Take of Bole Armenick, red Coral of each an ounce, Balaustins, terra Lemnia, white Starch, of each half an ounce, Hypocystis, the seeds of Henbane, Opium of each two drachms, juice of Plantain so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art.  
A. These also stop blood, help the bloody flux, stop the terms, and are a great help to such whose stomach loathes their victuals   

Trochisci Diaspermaton. Galeni.  
Take of the seeds of Smallage, and Bishop's weed of each an ounce, Annis and Fennel seeds, of each half an ounce, Opium, Cassia lignea of each two drams, with rain-water make it into troches according to art.  
A. These also bind, ease pain, help the pleurisy.   

Haemoptoici pastilli. Galen.  
Take of white Starch, Balaustins, earth of Samos, juice of Hypocistis, 
* if it be 〈◊〉 Gum 〈◊〉 I know not what it is,  Gum, Saffron, Opium of each two drams, with 〈◊〉 of Plantain make them into troches according to art.  
A. The operation of this is like the former.   

Sief de Plumbo. Mesue.  
Take of Led burnt and washed, Brass burnt, Antimony, Tutty washed, Gum Arabic & Traganth of each an ounce, Opium half a dram, with a sufficient quantity of rain-water make them up into troches.  
A. It fills up and cures ulcers in the eyes.   

Trochisci de Succino. Galen.  
Take of Illirick, Orris, Amber, Mastic, Saffron, of each two drachms, Opium five drachms, with mussilage made of the seeds of 
* Psyllium  Fleawort make it into Troches according to art.  
A. They cool, bind, and strengthen the stomach, and provoke sleep.   

Sief of Frankincense. Rhasis.  
Take of 
* I think they mean that by Cadmia.  Lapis 〈◊〉, Pompholix, Frankin sense of each ten drachms, Ceruse forty drachms, Gum Arabic, Opium, of each six drachms, rain water so much as is sufficient to make it into balls according to art.  
A. Sief is a general term which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes, of which this is one, and a good one to dry up rewms there.   

Agrick Trochiscated. Mesue.  
Take of choice Agrick four ounces, with infusion of Ginger made in wine, make it into Troches,   

Troches of Agrick.  
Take of choice Agrick three ounces, Sal. Gem. six drachms Ginger two drachms, with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient make it into Troches according to art.  
A. The virtues of both these are the same with Agrick, only it may be more safely given this way than the other, they cleanse the brain of phlegm, and the stomach of tough thick viscous humours.   

Trochisci Alhandal. Mesue  
Take of Colocynthis cleansed from the seeds ten ounces, cut them small with a pair of shears and rub them a little with an ounce of oil of Roses, then 
* first beat 〈◊〉 into powder.  make them into Troches with Mussilage made with Gum Arabic and Traganth, and Bdellium, of each six drachms, then steep them four days in Rosewater, dry them in the shadow, then beat them into powder again, and with mussilage as you had before, make them again into Troches.  
A. They purge slegm violently, but may more safely be given than the troches themselves   

Troches of 〈◊〉. Mesue.  
Take of Rhubarb ten drachms, the juice of Maudlin made thick, bitter Almonds of each half an ounce, Roses three drachms, Indian Spicknard, Wormwood, the seeds of Annis and Smallage, the roots of Maddir and Asarabacca of each adrachm, make them into Troches according to art, either with Succory water or juice of Maudlin clarified.  
A. They gently cleanse the liver, help the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of Choler and stoppage of the liver.   

Troches of Violets Solutive. Mesue.  
Take of Violets meanly dried six drachms, Turbith half an ounce, juice of Liquoris, Scammony, Manna, of each two drachms, make them into troches with syrup of Violets.  
A. They purge phlegm very violently.    

SIMPLE OILS MADE BY EXPRESSION.  

Oil of Sweet Almonds. Mesue.  
TAKE as many sweet Almonds as you will, that are dry and not sour, beat them very well and press out the oil, in a press, without fire.  
A. It helps roughness and soreness of the throat and stomach, helps pleuresies, increaseth seed, easeth Coughs, and Hectic fevers, by injection it helps such whose water scalds them, ulcers in the bladdeer, reins and matrix.   

Oil of bitter Almonds. Mesue.  
It is made in the same manner as oil of sweet Almonds.  
A. It opens stops, helps such as are deaf being dropped into their ears, it helps the hardness 〈◊〉 the nerves, and takes away spots in the face.   

Oil of Hazel Nuts. Mesue  
Take a sufficient quantity of Hazel nuts, and cleanse them, then bruise them well, place them in a warm bath five or six hours, then press out the oil in a press.  
A. You must put them in a vessel, (viz. a glass or some such like thing) and stop them close that the water come not to them when you put them into the bath.  
A. The Oil is good for cold afflictions of the nerves, the gout in the joints etc.  
After the same manner is made oil of Been called Oleum Bolaninum. Of Mace, Indian Nuts, Nutmegs, Walnuts.  
Of the kernels of Cherries, Apricocks, Pears, Pinenuts, Prunes, Fistick nuts.  
Of the seeds of Oranges, Hemp, Carthamus or: bastard 
It's not requisite to set Pine nuts twice as the College did.  Saffron and is called Oleum Cnicinum, Citrons, Cucumbers, Guords, Citruls, dwarf Elder, or Walwort, Henbane, Lettuce Flax, Melons, Poppies, Parsley, Rhadishes, Turnips, Palma Christi and is called Oleum de Cherva, Cicinum, and Ricininum, Sesami, Mustard seed, and of the stones of Grapes.  
A. Because most of these oils are out of use, I took not the pains to quote the virtues of them, if any lift to make them let them look the Simples and there they have them, if the Simples be not to be found in the book, there are other plentiful medicines conducing to the cure of all usual diseases which are.   

Oil of Bays. Mesue.  
Take of Bay berries fresh and ripe, so many as you please, bruise them sufficiently, then boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, till the oil swim at top, which separate from the water and keep for your use.  
A. It helps the Colic, and is a sovereign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold.  

Common oil of Olives, is pressed out of ripe Olives:  
Oil of Olives Omphacine, is pressed out of unripe Olives.    

Oil of the Yolks of Egs. Mesue.  
Take of the yolks of Eggs boiled heard, warm them well with a gentle fire in a glazed vessel but have a care you burn them not then press out the oil with a press, and if whilst they are warming, you sprinkle them with a little Wine the Oil will come out the better.  
A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉 and malignant ulcers, it causeth the hair to grow, it clears the skin and takes away deformities thereof, viz. Tetters, Ringworms, Morphew, Scabs.    

SIMPLE OILS BY INFUSION OR DECOCTION.  

Oil of Roses Omphacine.  
Take of oil Omphacine a pound, in which infuse red Rose buds bruised, four ounces, put them in a glass or stone pot glazed, stop them close, and set them in the sun seven days, shaking them every day, then boil them gently in a double vessel, and casting away those Roses (viz having strained them out) put in fresh Roses, set it in the sun seven days more, then boil it again, cast away those also and infuse fresh Roses, and when they have also been digested in the sun seven days, and gently boiled according to art, strain the oil from them, and keep it for your use.   

Oil of Roses complete. Mesue.  
It is made in the same manner with the former, only with sweet oil, Not Omphacine, and red Roses full blown, boiled twice as the former was, only the third time that the Roses are put in, let it stand forty days in the sun, and then if you please you may keep the oil and Roses in it, and not press them out at all.  
After the same manner is made oil of Wormwood, of the tops of Wormwood 〈◊〉 ounces, Oil three pound, repeating the infusion three times, adding at the last, juice of Wormwood four ounces, boil it gently till the juice be consumed.  
Also oil of Dill, of one pound of oil and four ounces of the leaves and flowers of Dill, infused three times.  
Oil of Castorium, of one ounce of Castorium, one pound of Oil, Wine so much as is 
* the College might havetaken the pains to set down how much that is.  sufficient, boil it to the consumption of the Wine.  
Oil of Chamomel. Of Oil, and the flowers of Chamomel, let them be set in the sun forty days.  
In the same manner is Oil of Meliot prepared.  
Oil of Winter-Gilliflowers (or Wall flowers as we call them in Sussex) is made as oil of Dill is.  
Oil of Quinces, is made of un-ripe Quinces, pills and all, and juice of Quinces of each six ounces, oil Omphacine three pound, let them stand in the sun in a glass fifteen days, then boil them in a double vessel four hours, afterwards change the quinces and the juice, (viz put in fresh, having strained out the former) at 
* viz. having boiled it to the consumption of the juice.  last strain it and keep it for your use.  
Oil of Elicampane is made of the roots of Elicampane bruised, and of the juice of them, and oil of Almonds, of each half a pound, sweet wine three ounces, boiled to the consumption of the wine.  
Oil of Euphorbium is made of Euphorbium half an ounce, oil of winter-Gilliflowers, Wine of each five ounces, boiled to the consumption of the wine.  
Oil of Emmats is made of winged Emmets two ounces, 
* some countries call them Ants. some Pismires, and some Pisants, we in Sussex Emments.  oil eight ounces, set in the sun for forty days and so kept for your use.   

Oil of St. John's wort.  
Take of the tops of St. John's wort four ounces, steep them in a pound of old oil Olive, and six ounces of Wine for three days, either in the sun, or in the heat of a bath, then strain them out, renew the infusion with fresh tops of Saint John's wort the second and third time, the last time let it be boiled almost to the consumption of the wine, strain it out, and ad to the oil three ounces of Turpentine, one scruple of Saffron, boil it a little, and so keep it for your use.  
Oil of Jasmine is made of the flowers and clear oil, as oil of Boses is.   

Oil of Orris.  
Take of the roots of Orris Florentine a pound, the flowers of white Lilies half a pound, water in which other roots of Orris Florentine have been boiled, so much as is sufficient, sweet oil six pound, boil them in a double vessel, then put in fresh roots and flowers, the former being cast away as in oil of Roses.   

Oil of Earthworms.  
Take of Earthworms half a pound, wash them well in Wine, then add oil of Olives two pound, Wine eight ounces, boil them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine.  
Oil of Margerum Simple is made of four ounces of the Herb infused in six ounces of Wine, and a pound of oil, with insolation and two other infusions (as in oil of Roses) evaporate away the Wine in a bath.   

Oil of Mastich.  
Take of oil of Roses Omphacine a pound, Mastic three ounces, Wine four ounces, boil them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine.  
Oil of mints is made of the herb and Oil Omphacine as Oil of Roses.  
Oil of Myrtles is made of the berries of Myrtles bruised (and sprinkled with red Wine) a pound, oil Omphacine three pound, let them be set in the sun eight days, than boiled, infuse fresh ones, and repeat both the infusion and insolation three times, then boil them in a double vessel and keep the oil for your use.   

Oil of Myrrh.  
Take certain new laid Eggs and boil them till they be hard, then cut them through the middle, the longest way, take out the yolks and fill the hollow place half full of myrrh, then join the whites together again and bind them gently with a string, then place them between two dishes, a small grate being between, that they fall not to the bottom, then place them in a wine Cellar or some other cool place under ground, so will the melted liquor of the Myrrh distil down into the inferior dish.  
Oil of Daffodils is made of the flowers and oil, as oil of Roses  
Nard oil Simple is made of Spicknard three ounces, sweet oil a pound and an half, Wine and Water of each two ounces and an half, boil them in a double vessel till the Wine and Water be consumed.  
Oil of water Lilly flowers is made of oil Omphacine a pound, white water Lilly flowers four ounces, three times repeated as in oil of Roses.  
Oil of Poppies is made of the heads, flowers, and leaves of Poppies, and oil Omphacine, as oil of Dill.  
Oil of Rue simple, of Rue boiled and sweet oil, as oil of Roses.  
Oil of Savin is made as oil of Roses.  
So also is oil of Elder flowers.  
Oil of Scorpions, of Scorpions by number thirty 〈◊〉; of bitter Almonds two pound, let them be infused for forty days in a warm place in a glass, then strained out and the oil kept for your use.  
Oleum Sicyonium of wild Cucumerroots and their juice, of each six ounces, oil of ripe Olives a pound, boil them in a double vessel to the consumption of the juice.  
Oil of Nightshade is made of the ripe berries of Nightshade four ounces boiled in a pint of oil.  
Oil of Styrax is made of a pound of oil Olive and three ounces of Styrax, Wine so much as is sufficient, boil them after a sufficient maceration to the consumption of the Wine.  
Oil of Vervain is made of the herb and oil, as oil of Mints is.  
Oil of Violets of the flowers of Violets and oil Omphatine as oil of Roses.  
A. That most of these oils if not all of them are used only externally is certain, and as certain that they retain the virtues of the simples whereof they are made, therefore the ingenious might help themselves, but because we live in a frigid age I shall vouchsefe to quote the virtues of the chiefest of them.  
A. Oil of Roses (the stomach being anointed with it) strengthens it, cools the heat of it, thickens, takes away inflammations, abates swellings.  
A. Oil of Wormwood doth moderately heat and strengthen the stomach being anointed with it, it procures appetite, opens obstructions, furthers digestion, and kills worms.  
A. Oil of Dill doth moderately digest, assuage the pains of the head and nerves, and procures sleep.  
A. Oil of Castorium helps cold diseases of the nerves, deafness being dropped into the ears, and noise there.  
A. Oil of Chamomel strengthens the sinews, greatly assuageth pain and breaks the stone.  
A. Oil of melilot hath the same effects.  
A. Oil of Walflowers assuageth pains in the breast and reins, sinews, joints, and bladder.  
A. Oil of Quinces, cools, binds, and strengthens, stops vomiting, looseness and sweeting.  
A. Oil of Euphorbium hath the same effects with that of Castorium, but works more forcibly, being 〈◊〉 up the nose it purgeth the head of phlegm.  
A. Oil of Emmets the privities being anointed with it provokes lust.  
A. Oil of St. John's wort, is as good a thing in green wounds as a man can use.  
A. Oil of Orris doth concoct and dissolve, assuage pain of the womb, liver, and joints, also it strengthens the breast.  
A. Oil of Earthworms mollify heat, and assuage pains, and is special good for such as 〈◊〉 been bruised or hurt in their joints.  
A. Oil of Marjoram, helps weariness, cold diseases of the brain, noise in the ears being dropped into them, the bitings of venomous beasts, and provokes the terms in women.  
A. Oil of Mastic strengthens the brain, stomach, and liver, sinews, and veins, stays vomiting, and fluxes.  
A. The stomach being anointed with oil of Mints, stays the weakness of it, heats and strengthens it, stays vomiting, helps digestion and provokes appetite.  
A. Oil of Myrtles hath the same effects with Quinces.  
A. Oil of Myrrh preserves any thing from putrifying that is anointed with it, makes the face fair and youthful.  
A. Nard oil doth heat digest, and strengthen, resists all cold and windy diseases throughout the body.  
Oil of water Lilies cools and assuageth the violent heat especially of the head, reins, and bladder, thereby mitigating frenzies, procuring sleep, and is a good preservative against the stone, and helps such women (their backs being anointed with it) as are subject to miscarry through heat of their reins, which they may easily know by continual pains in their backs, and swelling of their legs. Also oil of Poppies have the same virtue.  
A. Oil of Rue, heats, and makes thin, gross humours, expelleth wind, helps palsies, cramps, coldness of the womb and bladder.  
A. Oil of Violets cools inflammations, easeth the pleurisy, and pains of the breast.  
A. Oil of Nightshade hath the same effects with that of water Lilies.  
A. Then remember that these oils must not be given inwardly as men take drink, but outwardly applied or cast in as injections or Clysters.    

COMPOUND OILS.  

Oleum Aparicii Benedictum. Hier. Fab. ab Aq.  
Take of old oil three ounces, pure Turpentine eight ounces, pure wheat flower an ounce and an half, of the flowers of St. John's wort two ounces, the roots of Carduus Benedictus and Valerian of each an ounce, Frankincense in powder two ounces, let the roots and herbs be grossly bruised and put into a pot, and so much white Wine put into them that it may cover them all, let them stand in infusion three days, then add the oil and the flower, boil them all to the consumption of the Wine, then having strongly strained it out add the Turpentine and Frankincense, let it boil a little, and so keep it in a glass for your use.  
A. It is apropriated to cleanse and consolidate wounds especially in the head,   

Oil of Cappers.  
Take of the bark of Cappar roots an ounce, the bark of Tamaris, the leaves of Tamaris, the seeds of Agnus Castus, Ceterah, Cyperus roots, of each two drachms, Rue one dram, oil of ripe Olives one pound, strong wine Vinegar, and white Wine of each two ounces, the things to be bruised being bruised let them be all infused together a while, than boiled in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine and Vinegar, then strained, pressed out and kept for your use.  
A. The oil is opening, and heating, absolutely apropriated to the spleen, hardness and pains thereof, and diseases coming of stops there, as hypocondriac melancholy, the rickets etc.   

Oil of Castorium. Jacobus de Manliis.  
Take of Castorinm, Styrax Calamitis, Galbanum, Euphorbium, Cassia lignea, Saffron, Opopanax, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Spicknard, Costus of each two drachms, Cyperus, Schoenanthus, Pepper long and black, Savin, Pellitory of Spain of each two drachms and an half, Oil three pound, Spanish Wine two pound, let the Galbanum and Opopanax be dissolved by themselves in the Wine, then let all the rest being bruised be boiled with the oil and Wine, and strained, than the Opopanax and Galbanum, dissolved in oil and strained let them be mixed with the oil, and boiled again often stirring it, that the Opopanax and Galbanum which is subject to settle to the bottom may be mixed with the oil, let the Styrax be dissolved by itself in Wine, afterwards add a drachm and an half of Turpentine that so the Styrax may the better mingle with the oil.  
A. The virtues are the same with the Simple, only it is held to be more effectual in the premises.   

Oleum Costinum. Mesue.  
Take of bitter Costus two ounces, Cassia lignea one ounce, the tops of Marjoram eight ounces, being bruised let them be infused two days in a sufficient quantity of Wine, then boil them with two pound of oil of Olives washed in Wine, in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine, according to art.  
A. It heats, opens obstructions, strengthens the nerves and all nervous parts, as muscles, tendons, ligaments, the ventricle besides these, it strengthens the liver, it keeps the hairs from turning grey, and gives a good colour to the body.   

Oleum Crocinum. Mesue.  
Take of Saffron an ounce, pure Myrrh half an ounce, Cardamons nine drachms, Calamus Aromaticus one ounce, let them all be infused in Vinegar (except the Cardamons) for five days, the sixth day put in the Cardamons and let them strand one day longer, the morning following add a pound and an half of oil to them, and boil them with a gentle fire till the Vinegar be consumed according to art: Some put in Wine instead of Vinegar.  
A. It helps pains in the nerves and strengthens them, mollifies their hardness, helps pains in the matrix and causeth a good colour.   

Oil of Euphorbium the Compound. Nicholaus.  
Take of Stavesager, Sopewort of each half an ounce, Pellitory of Spain six drachms, Mountain Calaminth dried an ounce and an half, Costus ten drams, Costorium five drams, being bruised and three days steeped in three pound and an half of Wine, let them be boiled with one pound and an half of oil of Walflowers till the Wine be almost consumed, then put in half an ounce of Euphorbium fresh and white in fine powder mix them together and boil it to perfection.  
A. It hath the same virtue only is something more effectual than the Simple.   

Oleum Excestrense. Commonly called Oil of Exeter.  
Take of the leaves of Wormwood, Centaury the less, 
* whether here they mean Maudlin, or Agrimony I know not.  Eupatorium, Fennel, Hyssop, Bay leaves, Marjoram, Bawm, Nep, Penyroyal, Savin, Sage, Time, the flowers of Chamomel, Broom, white Lilies, Elders, the seeds of Cummin and Foenugreek, the roots of white and black Hellebore, the bark of Ash and Lemmon tree, of each four ounces, the leaves of Southernwood, Eettony, Chamepitys, Lavendar of each six ounces, Rosemary a pound, Euphorbium, Mustard seed, Gastorium, Pellitory of Spain of each an ounce, Oil sixteen pound, Wine three pound, the herbs seeds and Euphorbium being bruised and the roots, bark, and Castorium cut, the Wine and Oil being put to them, let them stand in a warm bath twelve hours, afterwards boiled over a gentle fire, to the consumption of the Wine, and humidity of the herbs, then strain out the Oil and keep it for your use.   

Oil of Swallows.  
Take sixteen Swallows whole and alive, Chamomel, Rue, Plantain the greater and lesser, the leaves of Bay, Penyroyal, Dill, Hyssop, Rosemary, Sage, St. John's wort, 
* some countries call it Alecost; it is a kind of Maudlin.  Costmary of each a handful, common Oil four pound, Spanish Wine one pound, make it up according to art: but if instead of Oil you will put so much May Butter to it as here is appointed Oil, and boil it with the foregoing Simples, then will it have both the name and consistence of an ointment.  
A. Both this and the former are apropriated to old bruises and pains thereof coming, as also to Sprains.   

Oil of St. John's wort Compound: or A Magisterial Balsam. Florent.  
Take of strong white Wine three pound, the tops of St. John's wort being ripe four handfuls, bruise the St. John's wort and infuse it in the Wine, in a glass close stopped, two days, then boil it in a double vessel, a whil, strain it strongly, and having cast away the former ad other flowers, do so the second time as you did the first, and the third time, then strain it out and to every pound of infusion, add four pound of old Oil, Turpentine six ounces, oil of Wormwood three ounces, Dittany, Gentian, Carduus Benedictuus, Tormentil, or Lady's Thistle, or Carline Thistle, Calamus Aromaticus of each two drachms, Earthworms often washed in Wine, two ounces, the things to be bruised being grossly bruised, let them be set in the sun thirty or forty days, and being well strained be kept for your use.  
A. Besides the virtues of the Simple Oil of St. John's wort, which this performs more effectually, it is an excellent remedy for old bruises aches and sprains.   

Oil of Orris Compound. Nich. Alex.  
Take of old oil fifteen pound, water four pound and an half, the roots of Orris Florentine, three pound and four ounces, white Lily flowers fifteen ounces, fresh Cyperus roots six ounces, Alicampane roots three ounces, Alkanet roots two ounces, Cinnamon, Spicknard, Benzoin, or 
* which in a some men's opinions are two things.  Asadulcis, of each an ounce, let the roots and the rest of the Simples be bruised and infused in the oil and water five days either in the Sun or some warm place, afterwards boiled in a double vessel till the water be consumed then let it cool, strain it out and keepit for your use.  
A. The effects are the same with the Simple.   

Oil of Marjoram Compound. Actuarius.  
Take of the leaves of Marjoram four handfuls, Mother of Time two handfuls, the flowers of Myrtles, or else their berries one handful, Southernwood, watermints of each a handful, Cassia lignea two ounces, Oil Omphacine three pound, all of them being cut and bruised, and put into a glass & the oil poured to them, & the mouth of the glass stopped, let them beset in the sun or another hot place eight days, then let them be pressed out and fresh Simples put to the Oil, use it in like manner, repeat their infusion three times, then keep it for your use.  
A. It helps weariness and diseases of the brain and nerves, coming of cold, it helps the dead palsy, the back (viz. the region along the back bone) being anointed with it, being snuffed up in the nose it helps Spasmus Cynicus, which is a wrying the mouth aside, it helps noise in the ears being dropped into them, it provokes the terms and helps the bitings of venomous beasts.   

Oil of Mandrakes. Nicholaus.  
Take of common oil two pound, the juice of the Apples of Mandrakes (or if you cannot get them take the juice of Mandrake leaves) the juice of white Henbane two ounces, the juice of the heads of black Poppies three ounces, the juice of Violets and Hemlock of each one ounce, Opium, Styrax Calamitis of each half an ounce, let the Juices and Oil be infused ten days in the sun, than boiled in a double vessel to the consumption of the juices, strain it, then let the Opium being dissolved in some of the juices and the Styrax being dissolved in a little Turpentine be well mixed with it according to art.  
A. It is probable the Author studied to invent an Oil extremely cold when he invented this, I am of opinion it may be used safely no way but only to anoint the temples and noses of such as have a frenzy.   

Oleum Moschelinum.  
Take two Nutmegs, Musk a drachm, Indian leaf or Mace, Spicknard, Costus, Mastich of each six drachms, Styrax Calamitis, Cassia lignea, Myrrh, Saffron, Cinnamon, Cloves, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Bdellium of each two drachms, pure oil three pound, generous Wine three ounces, the things to be beaten being beaten according to art, and mixed let them boil to the consumption of the Wine, and having strained the Oil keep it for your use.  
A. It is exceeding good against all diseases of cold, especially those of the stomach, it helps diseases of the sides they being anointed with it, the strangury, colic, and vices of the nerves, and afflictions of the reins.  
A. The receipt was made by Nicholaus Alexandrinus only the College something altered the quantities and that not worth speaking of.   

Nard Oil. Mesue.  
Take of Spicknard three ounces, Marjoram two ounces, Wood of Aloes, Elicampane, Indian leaf or Mace, Calamus Aromaticus, Bay leaves, Cyperus, Schoenanthus, Cardamons of each an ounce and an half, let them be grossly bruised, then infused in Wine and Water of each fourteen ounces, and oil of Sesanus or oil Olive, four puund and an half, for 24. hours, than boiled in a double vessel, with a gentle fire six hours continually stirring it.  
A. It heats, attenuates, digests, and moderately binds, and therefore helps all cold and windy afflictions of the brain stomach, reins, spleen, liver, bladder, and womb, being snuffed up the nose it purgeth the head, and gives a good colour and smell to the body.   

Oleum. Nicodemi.  
Take of the seeds or tops of St. John's wort, old Turpentine of each a pound, Licharge six drams, Aloes Hepatick, Tuty of Alexandria of each three drachms, Saffron an ounce, of the best white Wine four pound, old Oil two pound, boil them all together in a double vessel till the fourth part be consumed, then bury them in sand, in the 
* I am of opinion any time in the heat of summer will serve the turn, & my reason is because the dog stars have so much south latitude that their influence is very little or nothing at all in these northern climates.  dog-days, for ten days, afterwards strain them through a clean rag, separate the Wine from the oil and keep them both apart.  
A. Both Wine and Oil are exceeding drying, (that the Wine is more cleansing, and the Oil best to skin a sore, your genius (though never so dull) will tell you) and therefore excellent for sores and ulcers that run much, as for scabs, itch small pocks, swine pocks etc.   

Oil of Tobacco.  
Take of juice of Tobacco, common oil of each a pound, boil them together to the consumption of the juice.  
A. It is as gallant a remedy for deep wounds, scabs or itch as any is under the Cope of Heaven, and no way prejudicial.   

Oil of Peppers. Mesue.  
Take of long, black and white Pepper of each three drams, Myrobalans, Chebul, Bellerick, Emblick and Indian of each five drachms, the roots of Smallage and Fennel, of each three drachms and an half, Sagapenum, Opopanax, Ammoniacum, white Henbane of each to drachms and an half, Turbith two drachms, Ginger three drachms, the branches of green Time and green Rue of each a handful, infuse them according to art, in a sufficient quantity of Aquavitae, oil of walflowers otherwise called Winter Gillyflowers two pound, then boil them to the consumption of the Aquavitae.  
A. It helps cold diseases of the nerves, as Palsies falling sickness, convulsions, wry-mouths, trembling or shaking palsy, likewise cold afflictions of the reins and bladder, yard and womb, gouts and all diseases of the joints, it heats, makes thin, and cleanseth, and therefore it opens obstructions or stops and breaks the stone.   

Clevon Populeum. Nichol.  
Take of fresh Poplar buds three pound, Wine four pound, common oil seven pound two ounces, beat the Poplar buds very well, then steep them seven days in the oil and Wine, then boil them in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed (if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boil it, the medicine will be the stronger) then press out the oil and keep it.  
A. It is a fine cool oil, but the 
* Ung. Popules  ointment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better.   

Oil of Foxes. Mesue.  
Take a fat Fox of a middle age, wearied with hunting, and new killed, the skin and bowels being taken away and the bones broken, cut into many parts, boil him in white Wine and Conduit water of each six pound, till almost half be consumed, scumming it diligently, then mix with it four pound of old sweet Oil, common Salt three ounces, the flowers of Sage, Time, of each a pound, let it boil till almost all the water be consumed, then add water (wherein a handful of Dill and Time have been boiled) eight pound, boil it again over a gentle fire to the consumption of the water, then press out the Oil, and if any watery substance remain amongst it, separate it with a Funnel and keep the Oil for your use.  
A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joints, gouts, pains in the back and reins.    

OINTMENTS.  

OINTMENTS MORE SIMPLE.  

Unguentum album. Rhasis.  
TAKE of oil of Roses nine ounces, good Ceruse washed in Rose water three ounces, white Wax two ounces, make them into an Ointment according to art, and if you add two drachms of Camphire, then will it be camphorated.  
A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Ointment this way, others hold it not convenient, but instead of oil of Roses they add so much Hog's grease, and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Ointment without the help of the fire.  
A. It is a fine cooling drying Ointment, easeth pains, and itching in wounds and ulcers, and is a hundred times better with Camphire than without it.   

Unguentum Aegiptiacum. Mesue.  
Take of Vert-de-greece five drachms, Honey fourteen drachms sharp Vinegar seven drachms, boil them all together till they come to be a thick Ointment of a reddish colour.  
A. It cleanseth filthy ulcers and fistulas forcibly, and not without pain, it takes away dead or proud flesh, and dries: the Chirurgeon of our days use it commonly instead of Apostolorum, to cleanse wounds, it cleanseth more potently indeed, and therefore may be sitter in sanious ulcers, but it strengthens not so much.   

Unguentum Anodinum.  
Take of oil of white Lilies six ounces, oil of Dill and Chamomel of each two ounces, sweet Almonds one ounce, Duck's grease and Hen's grease of each two ounces, white Wax three ounces, mix them together according to art.  
A. I take the Augustan Physicians to be the Authors of this for there it is to be found verbatim only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax, its use is to assuage pains in any part of the body, especially such as come by inflammations, whether in wounds or tumors, and for that it is admirable.   

Unguentum sive Linimentum. Arceus.  
Take of Gum Elenni, Turpentine of the fir tree of each an ounce and an half, sheep Suit tried two ounces, hog's grease tried two ounces, mix them together and make them into an Ointment according to art.  
A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head, yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers if not too sanious in any part of the body, though in the feet, and they are at the greatest distance from the head, it gently cleanseth, and filleth up an ulcer with flesh, it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body.   

Unguentum Aureum, Mesue.  
Take of yellow Wax half a pound, oil two pound and an half, Turpentine two ounces, Rozin of the Pine tree, commonly called Perrozin, Colophonia of each an ounce & a half, Frankincense, Mastic of each an ounce, Saffron a drachm, make them up according to art.  
A. If you remember the College commends this Ointment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds, page 79. and indeed it doth so, but if you please to take counsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE he will tell you that the former is worth two of it for that use.   

Unguentum Basilicon majus. Mesue.  
Take of white wax, Perrozin, Heifers Suit, greek pitch, Turpentine, Olibanum, Myrrh of each an ounce, Oil a pound, or else a sufficient quantity to make it up into an Ointment.   

Unguentum Basilicon minus. Or, Tetrapharmacum. Mesue.  
Take of yellow Wax, Rozin, greek Pitch of each half a pound, Oil two pound and four ounces, only melt them that so they may be mixed together into the consistence of an Ointment.  
A. Both this and the former heat, moisten and digest, procure matter in wounds, I mean bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds, they cleanse and ease pain.   

Ointment of Bdellium. Mesue.  
Take of Bdellium six drachms, Euphorbium, Sagapenum, of each four drachms, Castorium three drachms, Wax fifteen drachms, Oil of Elder or Walflower ten drachms, the Bdellium and 〈◊〉, being dissolved in the water of wild Rue, let the rest be united with warm water, and made into an Ointment according to art.  
A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner, I do not well know whether it be possible or not, If not; it may be done with the oil.  
A. It is exceeding good against palsies, wry-mouths, falling sickness, and other cold of afflictions of the nerves.   

Unguentum de Calce. Foesius.  
Take of 
* I do not well know whether they mean Lime or not, for the latin word Calx I take it) signifies both.  Chalk at least seven times washed half a pound, Oil of Roses a pound, 〈◊〉 them about well in a leaden mortar, then add to them three ounces of Wax.  
A. It is exceeding good, in burnings and scaldings.   

Ointment of Marsh-mallows Simple. Nicholaus.  
Take of Marsh mallow roots fresh and bruised two pound, 
a Linseed and flax seed is all one.  Linseed and Fenagreek seed bruised of each a pound, steep them in eight pound of Water, then boil them a little gently and press out their mussilage, of which take two pound and oil four pound, boil them together till the mussilage be consumed, then add Wax a pound, Rozin half a pound, Turpentwo ounces, boil them into the consistence of an Ointment.   

Ointment of Marshmallows Compound. Nichol.  
Take of Marshmallow roots two pound, the seeds of Flax and Fenugreek of each one pound, pulp of Squils' half a pound, Oil four pound, Wax one pound, Turpentine, Gum of 〈◊〉; Galbanum of each two ounces, Colophonia, Rozin of each half a pound; let the roots be well washed and bruised, as also the Linseed; Foenugreek seed and Squils, then steep them three days in eight pints of water, the fourth day boil them a little upon the fire & draw out the Mussilage, of which take two pound and boil it with the oil to the consumption of the juice, afterwards add the Wax, Rozin and Colophonia, when they are melted add the Turpentine, afterwards the Galbanum and gum of lvy, dissolved in Vinegar, boil them a little, and having removed them from the fire, 〈◊〉 them till they are cold that so they may be well incorporated.  
A. They both (viz. this and the former) heat and moisten, the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies.   

Unguentum Enulatum.  
Take of Elicampane roots while they are soft, bruised and boiled in Vinegar (and drawn through a pulping sieve) one pound, Hog's Greas without salt one pound, Common Oil four ounces, Wax two ounces, Salt one ounce, Quicksilver killed either with fasting spittle or juice of Lemons, Turpentine washed with the decoction the Elicampane roots were boiled in, of each two ounces, let the 〈◊〉 and Wax be melted in the oil, then add the pulp of Elicampane and Salt being finely powdered, last of all ad the Quick silver killed laboured much in a mortar with the Turpentine and a little Crease, make them into an ointment according to art. Also it ought to be prepared without Quicksilver.  
A. My opinion of this ointment is (briefly) this, It was invented for the Itch, without Quick silver it will do no good, with Quicksilver it may do harm.   

Unguentum Diapompholigos nihili. Nichol.  
Take of Oil of Roses sixteen ounces, Juice of Nightshade six ounces, let them boil to the consumption of the juice, then add white Wax five ounces, Cerus washed two ounces, Led burnt and washed, Pompholix prepared, pure Frankincense, of each an ounce; let them be brought into the form of an Ointment according to art.  
A. It cools and binds, dries, and stays fluxes either of blood or humours in wounds, and fills hollow ulcers with flesh.   

Unguentum Refrigerans. Galenus. It it also called a Cerecloath.  
Take of white Wax four ounces, Oil of Roses Omphacine a pound, melt it in a double vessel, than power it out into another, by degrees putting in cold water, and often pouring it out of one vessel into another, stirring it till it be white, last of all wash it in Rose water, adding a little Rose water and Rose vinegar.  
A. It is a fine cooling thing, (for what denomination to give it I scarce know) and exceeding good, yea superexcellent to cure inflammations in wounds or tumours.   

Unguentum de Minio: Or Rubrum Camphoratum.  
Take of oil of Roses a pound and an ounce, red Lead three ounces, Litharge two ounces, Ceruse an ounce and an half, Tutty three drams, Camphire 2. drams, Wax in summer two ounces, in winter one ounce, make them into an ointment in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle, the wax being first melted in the oil over a gentle fire, than the rest added in fine powder.  
A. This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually read of one, and withal cooling, therefore good for sores, and such as are troubled with defluxions: I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applied it to my Mother's breast when she had a Cancer, before it broke long time, but to as much purpose as though he had applied a 〈◊〉 apple; yet in the foregoing infirmities I believe it seldom fails.   

Ointment of Tobacco. Joubertus  
Take of Tobacco leaves two pound, fresh Hog's Grease diligently washed one pound, let the herb being bruised be infused a whole night in red Wine, in the morning let it boil with a gentle fire to the consumption of the Wine, strain it and add to the Ointment, of the juice of Tobacco clarified half a pound, Rozin four ounces, boil it to the consumption of the 〈◊〉, adding toward the end round 〈◊〉 roots in powder two ounces, new Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment.  
A It would ask a whole Summer's day to write the particular virtues of this Ointment, and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise, It cures tumors, Aposthumes, wounds, ulcers, Gun-shot, botches, scibs, itch, stinging with nettles, bees, wasps, hornets, venomous beasts, wounds made with poisoned arrows etc. Tush! this is nothing— paulo majora canamus. It helps scaldings though made with oil, burnings though with lightning & that without any scar, It helps nasty rotten stinking putrified ulcers though in the legs, whither the humours are most subject to resort, in fistulas though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the very bottom, Would you be fair? your face being anointed with this, soon will the redness, pimples, sunburning vanish, a wound dressed with this will never putrify, a wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow, anoint but with this and you need fear no danger, If your head ache anoint your templss with this and you shall have ease, The stomach being anointed with it, no infirmity dares harbour there, no not Asthmaes, nor consumptions of the lungs, The belly being anointed with it, helps the colic and Iliack passion, the worms, and what not? it help the Hemorrhoids or piles, and is the best Ointment that is for gouts of all sorts: finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases, of Tobacco as of any thing in the world, the Philosophers stone excepted. O Joubertus! thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine, by those that use it, so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth.   

Unguentum 〈◊〉, or Crudum, or of lethargy, or Tripharmacum. Mesue.  
Take of lethargy of Gold beaten into very fine powder, half a pound, Oil of Roses a pound, Vinegar four ounces, put in sometimes Oil and sometimes Vinegar, stirring it about in a mortar, so long till the lethargy have drunk up all the liquor and be made in the form of a whitish Ointment.  
A. It is of a cooling drying nature, good for itching of wounds, Itch and Scabs and such like deformities of the skin, as Tetters, Ringworms etc.   

Unguentum Ophthalmicum. Renodaeus.  
Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water an ounce, Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright water, Tutty prepared of each two drachms, Pearls beaten into very fine powder half a drachm, Camphire half a scruple, Opium five grains, Ointment of Roses fifteen ounces, Oil of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment according to art.  
A. It is exceeding good to stop hot Rheums that fall down into the eyes the eyelids being but anointed with it.   

Cuilielmus Placentinus his Lineament Simple.  
Take of washed Cerus eight ounces, white Wax seven ounces, Litharge washed, juice of Nightshade of each five ounces, Frankincense in powder ten drachms, oil of Roses often washed in common water two pound, make of them a Lineament according to art.  
A. It is cooling and also drying, if you cast an eye to some of the former Ointments of that nature, you may see its use.   

Ointment of Lead. Foesius.  
Take of Led burnt with Brimstone, Litharge of each two ounces, Ceruse, Antimony of each one ounce, Oil of Roses so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment.  
I et the Lead being filled to dust be burned in a pot with Brimstone.   

Pomatum.  
Take of the Suet of a Stag or else of a Kid, two ounces, the fat of a Sow a pound and an half, Apples being cut and pared by number eight, let the fats being cleansed from their skins be washed in white Wine, than put them into an earthen vessel glazed, which is half full of Rose water, let it boil gently till almost all the water be consumed, strain it into another earthen vessel sprinkled with Rose water, and add to it oil of sweet Almonds six ounces, white Wax four ounces, melt it again by the fire, and having strained it and washed it with Rose water keep it for your use.  
A. I have seen many other receipts to make Pomatum, and all better than this, which is very difficult if not impossible to be gotten in many places of this Nation, but I have not that Latitude given me, to quote any receipts that are not in the Dispensatory, only take notice that its general use is to soften and supple the roughness of the skin, and take away the chaps of the lips, hands, face or other parts.   

Unguentum Potabile. Foesius.  
Take of fresh Butter, without Salt a pound and in half, Maddir, Castorium, Sperma Caeti, Tormentil roots of each half an ounce, let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Wine till the Wine be consumed and so made into an Ointment.   

An Ointment against Scabs and Itch. Renodaeus.  
Take of Sow's grease often washed in juice of Scabious half a pound, the roots of sharp-pointed Dock, boiled very soft in Vinegar and pulped through a sieve, Brimstone washed in the juice of Lemons of each an ounce and an half, Vnguentum Populeon washed in juice of Elicampane, half an ounce mix them all together in a mortar, unto an Ointment according to art.  
A. It is a wholesome though troublesome medicine for what the Title specifies.   

Ointment of Roses. Mesue.  
Take of Hog's grease well cleansed from the skins a pound, wash it 9 
* be sure you miss not one of them.  times in warm water then as often in cold water, fresh red Roses a pound, mix them together and so let them stand seven days, then boil them over a gentle fire, and strain out the Roses, then mix with the Ointment the like quantity of fresh red Roses, and then let them stand together as many days, then strain them out having first boiled them, at the last add juice of red Roses six ounces, boil them over a gentle fire till the juice be consumed, then strain it, and make of it an Ointment according to art.  
A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold, and you shall see it is an Ointment alone without any further making.  
A. It is of a fine cooling nature, exceeding useful in all gauling of the skin, and frettings accompanied with choleric humours, angry bushes, tetters, ringworms, it mitigates diseases in the head coming of heat, as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver.   

Unguentum Rubrum Desiccativum. Nicholaus.  
Take of oil of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half, white Wax five ounces melt them together and put them into a leaden mortar, then put to them earth of Lemnos or else Bole Armenick, Lapis Calaminaris tightly beaten into powder of each four ounces, Litharge of Gold, Ceruse of each two ounces, Camphire a drachm, make them into an Ointment according to art.  
A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humours and is as gallant an ointment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory.   

Common Ointment of Tutty.  
Take of Tutty prepared two ounces, Lapis Calaminaris, often heat red hot and as often quenched in Plantain water, an ounce, let them be beaten into very fine powder, and with Hog's grease often washed in Rose water a pound and an half let it be made into an Ointment according to art.  
Also you may prepare it with Ointment of Roses instead of Hog's grease.  
A. It is a cooling drying Oyntmet apropriated to the eyes, to dry up hot and salted humours that flow down thither, the eye lids being anointed with it.    

OINTMENTS MORE COMPOUND.  

A Binding Ointment. Fernelius.  
Take of Oil of Roses often times washed in Alum water a pound and an half, white Wax four ounces, unripe Galls, Cypress nuts, Myrtle berries, Balaustins, Pomegranate pills, Acorn cups, Acacia, Sumach, Mastich of each an ounce, let all of them being exactly beaten into powder, be steeped in the juices of unripe Medlars and 
* Checkers. called in 〈◊〉  Services, for four days, then dried by a gentle fire, so with the oil and wax let them be made into an Ointment according to art.  
A. Me thinks these are but wooden directions, you had best (as I suppose) after they have been infused to boil the Oil and Juices till the Juices be consumed, then put in the Wax.  
A. It bindeth and bringeth together the open parts of the body, and compacteth the pores, it stops fluxes, stays issues, of blood, the falling out of the womb and fundament.   

Unguentum Agrippe. Nicholaus.  
Take of Briony roots two pound, wild cucumber roots one pound, Squills half a pound, fresh Orris roots three ounces, male Fearn roots, dwarf Elder, Water Caltrop, or Aron of each 2. ounces, let all of them being bruised be infused for six or eight days, in four pounds of sweet oil, than boiled over a gentle fire till the roots begin to be crisp, then pressed out and in the Oil melt fifteen ounces of white Wax and so bring it into the form of an Ointment.  
A. It purgeth exceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies, and if there be any humour of 〈◊〉 in any part of the body that you know not how to remove (provided the part be not two tender) you may anoint it with this.   

Unguentum de Alabastro. Ben. Vict. Favent.  
Take of the juice of Chamomel four ounces, the juice of red Roses two ounces, the juice of Rue and Bettony of each an ounce and an half, the juice of Marsh mallow roots two ounces, Oil of Roses Omphacine a pound and an half, pure Alabaster beaten into fine powder three ounces, infuse them all night, then boil them to the consumption of the juice, and with six ounces of white Wax make it an ointment according to art.   

Unguentum Apostolorum. Avicenna.  
Take of Turpentine, Rozin, white Wax, 〈◊〉 of each fourteen drachms, long Birthwort roots, Olibanum, Bdellium, of each six drachms, Myrrh, Galbanum, of each half an ounce, Opopanax, Vert-de-greece, of each two drams, Litharge nine drachms, Oil if in 
* but what if it be in the spring or 〈◊〉?  summer time two pound, if in winter three pound, Vinegar so much as is sufficient to dissolve the Amoniacum, Opopanax, and Galbanum, make it up into an ointment according to art.  
A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh, and makes flesh soft which is hard, it cleanseth wounds ulcers & fistulas and restore, flesh where it is wanting.   

Unguentum Aregon Adjutorium. Nicholaus.  
Take of Rosemary, Marjoram, Mother of Time, Rue, Aron-roots, the roots of wild Cucumbers of each four ounces 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  and an half, the leaves of Bay, Sage, Savin, the roots of Briony a Fleabane the greater and lesser, (or in defect of the lesser take the double quantity of the greater) of each four ounces, Laurel nine ounces, the leaves of wild Cucumbers and Nep of each half a pound, all of them being gathered in the month of May, let them be beaten when they are green and steeped seven days in six pound of the best oil, and one pound of Aqua vitae, then boiled till the water be consumed, let the Oil be strained, in which melt sixteen ounces of Wax, Bears grease and Oil of Bayss of each three ounces, Oleum Moschellinum half an ounce, Petroleum an ounce, Butter four ounces, these being stirred together, sprinkle in these powders, Mast, 〈…〉, Olibanum of each seven drachms, Pellitory of Spain, Ginger, Euphorbium, Pepper of each an ounce, bring them all into the form of an Ointment according to art.  
A. It mightily digesteth and maketh thin, and that not without some purging quality, and is very commodious against cold afflictions of the body, but especially of the sinews convulsions, falling sickness, pains of the joints and great guts.   

Unguenium è succis Aperitivis primum. Foesius.  
Take of the juice of Smallage, Endive, Mints, Wormwood common Parsley, Valerian of each three ounces, oil of Wormwood and Mints of each half a pound, yellow Wax three ounces, mix them together over the fire and make of them an Ointment: sometimes is added also the powders of Calamus Aromaticus, Spicknard of each one drachm, a little oil of Cappars.  
A. It opens stoppages of the stomach and spleen, easeth the Rickets the breast and sides being anointed with it.   

Unguentum Aperitivum Secundum. Foesius.  
Take of the juice of Dwarf Elder or Walwort eight ounces, the juices of Parsley and Smallage of each four ounces, the juices of Wormwood and Orris of each five ounces, common Oil half a pound, oil of white Lilies ten ounces, oil of Wormwood and Chamomel, of each six ounces, the fat of Ducks and Hens of each two ounces, boil them all together to the consumption of the juices, afterwards strain them, and with seven ounces of white Wax, and a little Vinegar make it into an Ointment according to art.   

Unguentum de Artanita majus. Mesue.  
Take of the juice of Artanita or Sow bread, or for want of it a strong decoction of the roots, three pound; the juice of wild Cucumbers, Butter of each one pound, Oil of Orris two 〈◊〉, pulp of Colocynthis four ounces, Polipodium six ounces, 〈◊〉 half an ounce; let the things to be bruised, be bruised, and infused in the juices and oil, for eight days in a glazed vessel well stopped, than boiled in a double vessel, almost to the consumption of the juices, strain them, and add to the liquor, Wax two ounces, Bulls Gall seven drachms and an half, let them boil together till the wax be melted, then ad Sagapenum seven drachms and an half, Myrrh three drachms, being dissolved in Vinegar, stir them together till they are almost cold, then sprinkle in by degrees the powders of these following simples being well mixed together, Scammony, Aloes, Colocynthis, the leaves of 
* 〈◊〉 or spurgolive.  Mezereon or the berries thereof, Turbith of each seven drachms and an half, Sal. Gem. four drachms and an half, Euphorbium, long Pepper, Ginger, Chamomel of each three drachms, mix them together and make of them an Ointment according to art.  
A. The stomach being anointed with it, it purgeth by vomit, the belly anointed with it, it purgeth by stool, the truth is, it is a desperate kind of purge, yet I hold it as sitting as can be to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies, because I conceive it especially purgeth water, and the water in dropsies lies near the skin.   

Unguentum Catapsoras.  
Take of Ceruse washed first in Purslain water, then in Vinegar, mixed with the juice of wild Rhadishes and then strained, Lapis Calaminaris, Chalcitis of each six drachms, Litharge of lead two ounces, burned lead, goat's blood of each two ounces, Mercury Sublimate an ounce, the juices of Sengreen or Housleek, Nightshade, Plantain, of each two ounces, Hog's grease cleansed from the skins two pound, oil of 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, and Mandrakes of each an ounce, first let the Sublimatúm and Hog's grease be well mingled and incorporated, then add the oil and juices and last of all the powders, and of all of them mixed, make an oyutment according to art.  
A. The Title shows it to be invented against scabs and itch.   

Unguentum Citrinum. Nichol.  
Take of Borax an ounce, Camphire a drachm, 〈◊〉 Coral half an ounce, 
* I know not how better to translate the word Gypsum.  Plaster of a wall an ounce. Vmbilicus marinus, Gum Traganth, white Starch of each three 〈◊〉, Crystal, 
a two seashels  Entalis, Dentalis, Olibanum, Salt Niter, white Marble of each two drachms, Gersa serpentaria an ounce, common Ceruse six ounces, fresh Hog's grease cleansed, a pound and an half, Goat's suet prepared an ounce and an half, Hen's grease two ounces and an half, let the things to be powdered be brought into very fine powder, according to art, many of them will be best beaten by themselves, then make up the ointment thus, put the Hog's grease and Hen's grease into an earthen pot that is glazed, into which put two Citrons of a middle bigness, together with the pulp and juice, cut in bits, stop the vessel and place it in a warm bath for seven days, then strain out the Citrons, and cast them away, than the Goat's grease being melted with the other, sprinkle in the powders by degrees, (but let the Camphire and Borax be put in last) always stirring it till it come into the form of an ointment.  
A. It takes away pimples, redness, freckles and other deformities of the face, scabs in any part of the body, it takes away the redness of the eyes and makes a rough skin smooth.   

Unguentum 〈◊〉. Varignan.  
Take of the middle bark of 〈◊〉, Chestnuts, Oak, and beans, Myrtle berries, 
* 〈◊〉 the herb so called, not the real tail of an Horse.  Hors-tail, gaul's, the stones of Grapes, unripe Services, (or Checkers) dried, unripe Medlars dried, the leaves of Slow tree, the roots of Bistort and tormentil of each an ounce and an half, let them be grossly bruised and boiled in eight pints of Plantain water, till half be consumed, strain it then take of yellow Wax eight ounces and an half, 〈◊〉 it with simple oil of Myrtles two pound and an half, then wash it nine times with the foregoing 〈◊〉, putting in fresh decoction so often as you wash it, afterwards sprinkle in these following Simples being beaten into fine powder, take of the middle bark of Acorns, Chestnuts, and Oak, Galls of each an ounce, juice of 〈◊〉, ashes of the bones of an Ox leg, Myrtle berries, the stones of unripe Grapes, unripe Services or Checkers dried of each half an ounce, Trochisci de 〈◊〉 two ounces, mix them with the aforesaid wax and oil of Myrtle being washed adding oil of Mastic not washed, so much as is sufficient to bring it into the form of an ointment, according to art.  
A. It seems in my eyes a gallant binding ointment composed neatly by a judicious brain, the belly and reins being anointed with it, it stays 〈◊〉, or miscarriage in women though already begun, it strengthens weak backs exceedingly and stops the immoderate flowing of the terms, and Hemorrhoids, falling out of the fundament and womb, finally, for every occasion that requires binding, I would if I were Eloquent, commend it in the superlative degree.   

Unguentum ad 〈◊〉. Norimberg.  
Take of white starch, Ceruse washed, Litharge prepared Led burnt, Gum Traganth of each a drachm and an half, Theban Opium, Camphire of each a scruple, the white of one Egg, oil of Roses and Violets of each an ounce and an half, Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an ointment.  
A. It is apropriated to the Hemorrhoids as the title shows.   

Unguentum Hemorrhoidale. Saxoniae.  
Take of mussilage of the seeds of 
* Psyllium.  Fleawort, and Quinces drawn in the water of Nightshade of each an ounce, oil of Roses complete an ounce, the yolk of one Egg let them be stirred together in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle, adding a little melted Wax, mix them together and make of them an ointment according to art.  
A. Its use is the same with the former.   

Common ointment of Bayss.  
Take of Bay leaves a pound, Bay berries half a pound, Cabbage leaves four 〈◊〉, Neat's foot oil five pound, 〈◊〉 suet two pound, the leaves and berries being bruised and boiled with the oil and suet till their juice be consumed let it be strained and kept.  
A. It heats, and expels wind, it profitable for old aches, and sprains, but what good it should do in the itch for which simple people buy it, I cannot imagine.   

Unguentum Martiatum. Nichol.  
Take of the leaves of Bay and Rosemary of each eight ounces, Rue seven ounces, Tamaris six 〈◊〉; the leaves of Dwarf-Elder, Marjoram, Savin, Costmary, or else, Water-mints, Sage, Bazil, Poley mountain, Calaminth, Mugwort, Elicampane, Bettony, Brank-Ursine Goose grass or Cleavers, Anemone or Wind flower, or for want of it Pellitory of the wall Burnet, Agrimony, Wormwood, Cowslips, garden Costus, Elders, Orphine the greater, 〈◊〉 the greater and lesser, Yarrow, Germander, Centaury the less, Plantain, Strawberries, 
* called also 〈◊〉, and Iron-wort, because of its excellency to cure wounds.  Tetrahit or for 
a which in London cannot be, becauseir grows almost in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ditch.  want of it Goldenrod, Cunkfoyl, of each four ounces and an half; the roots of 〈◊〉, the seeds of Cummin, 〈◊〉, of each three ounces, 〈◊〉 an ounce and an half, the seeds of the greater Nettles, of Violets, red or errattick Poppies, commonly called Corn-roses, Garden Mints, 〈◊〉, wild Mints, Maidenhair, Carduus Benedictus, Woodbine or Honey suckles, Va lerian the greater, sweet Cranebill or Muschata, wood Sor rel, Harts-tongue, 
o 〈◊〉.  Ox-eye, Southern wood, Marrow of a Stag, Styrax Calamitys, of each half an ounce, Butter ten drachms, Bears and Hen's 〈◊〉, Mastich, Frankincense, of each one ounce, Nard oil two ounces, Wax two pound, let the herbs being green be cut, and infused in eight pounds of oil with wine for seven days, on the eighth day let them be boiled almost to the consumption of the wine, then being removed from the fire, let it be strained and the oil put into the pan again, to which (being a little warmed) 〈◊〉 the butter, marrow, fat, nard oil and wax, than the styrax dissolved in wine and mixed with a little turpentine, but let the Mastic, Myrrh and Frankincense being beaten into powder be put in last of all, and when they are all well mixed together, keep the ointment in a vessel.  
A. This long receipt of Nich Myrepsus, is held to be profitaagainst cold afflictions of the brain nerves, and joints as shaking palsy, dead palsy, Convuliions etc. it helps numbness of the joints, the gout and hard tumours of the spleen.   

Mundificativum ex 〈◊〉  
Take of the juice of Smallage a pound, Honey nine ounces, Wheat flower three ounces, boil them over the fire to the thickness of an ointment, according to art.  
A. It is a fine gentle cleansing ointment.   

Unguentum Neapolitanum. Renodaeus.  
Take of Sow's grease 
* be sure it be not hog's grease.  washed with juice of Sage one pound, quicksilver strained through a cloth and well killed with falling spittle four ounces, oil of Bays, Chamomel & Earthworm of each two ounces, oil of Spike an ounce and an half, Aqua vitae an ounce, yellow wax two ounces, Turpentine washed in juice of Elicampane three ounces, powder of Camaepitys and Sage of each two drachms, make them into an ointment according to art.   

Unguentum Resinum.  
Take of Perrozin, Turpentine, yellow Wax, pure Oil, of each equal parts mix them together.  
A. It is as pretty a Careoloath for a new sprain as most is, and cheap.   

Unguentum Nervinum.  
Take of the leaves and flowers of Cowslips, Sage, Camaepytis, Rosemary, Lavender, Bay with the berries, Chamomel, Rue, Smallage, Melilot with the flowers, Wormwood of each a handful, Mints, Bettony, Penyroyal, Parsley, Centaury the less, St. John's wort of each half a handful, Neat's or sheep's foot Oil five pound, Sheep or Ox suet, or else their marrow two pound, Oil of Spike half an ounce, bruise the herbs, and boil them with the oils and suet and make an ointment of them according to art.  
A. It is apropriated to the nerves, and helps their infirmities coming of cold, (which you may find often enough related, I do not love always to harp upon the same string) as also old bruises.   

Unguentum Pactorale. Nich.  
Take of fresh butter often washed in Violet water six ounces, oil of sweet Almonds four ounces, oil of Chamomel and Violets of each three ounces, Goose and Ducks grease of each three ounces, Orris roots two drachms, Saflron half a dram, white Wax three ounces, let the Wax and fats be melted together in the oil, than often washed either in Barley or Hyssop water, add the Orris and Saffron being brought into fine powder, then bring them into an Ointment according to art.  
A. If you let the Butter boil it will stink, but the College never thought of that, having forgotten the old Grammar phrase 〈◊〉 est etc.  
A. It strengthens the breast and stomach, easeth the pains thereof, helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungs.   

Unguentum Populneum. Nich.  
Take of the buds of Poplar fresh gathered, a pound and an half, fresh Hog's grease three pound, let the Poplar-buds be beaten and mixed with the grease till these following herbs can be gotten.  
Take of the leaves of black Poppies and Mandrakes, the tender branches of Maddir, the leaves of Henbane, Nightshade, Lettuce, Sengreen the lesser and greater, Violets, Penywort, or Kidneywort, Burrs of each three ounces, let all of them being bruised be mixed with the grease and Poplar buds, after ten days put to them a pound of Rose water, and boil them with a gentle fire till the water and all the liquor be consumed, strain it and press it out, and if need be boil it again till it come to the consistence of an ointment.  
A. It is exceeding good in burnings, scaldings, and inflammations, it assuageth the heat of the head and kidneys, the temple being anointed with it, it provokes sleep.   

Unguantum Resumptivum. Nicholaus.  
Take of fresh Hog's grease three ounces, Hens, Goose, and Ducks grease of each two ounces, 
* you shall be taught what it is and how to make it before the book be at an end.  Oesypus an ounce, oil of Violets, Chamomel, and Dill of each two ounces, fresh Butter a pound, white Wax six ounces, mussilage of Gum Traganth, the seeds of Quinces and Linseeds, the roots of Marsh-mallows, and Gum Arabic of each half an ounce, let the mussilages be made in Rose water, and the rest added and so made into an ointment according to art.  
A. It mightily molllfies without any manifest heat and is therefore a fit ointment for such as have agues, asthmaes, hectic fevers, or consumptions.   

Unguentum splenicum.  
Take of Oil of Capers an ounce, oil of Lilies and Chamomel, fresh Butter, juice of Briony and Showbread of each half an ounce, let the oil boil to the consumption of the juices, adding Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar two drachms and an half, Hen's grease, the marrow of the leg of a Calf, Oesypus of each half an ounce, the bark of the roots of Tamaris, and Cappars, Cetrach, the roots of Fearn of each one dram, powder of the seeds of Agnus Castus, and Broom of each one scruple, Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into the form of an Ointment.   

Unguentum aliud splenicum Magistrale.  
Take of the barks of Cappar roots six drachms, Briony roots, Crris Florentine, Fennel seed in powder, Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of each half an ounce, the tops of Wormwood, the flowers of Chamomel, of each one drachm, Vng è succis aperitiois Foesius, viz. the second description, Ointment of Orange flowers, of each six drachms, oil of Oris and Cappars of each an ounce and an half, let the things to be beaten being beaten and sifted, and the rest added let it be made into an ointment in a hot mortar.  
There are some that cannot abide ointments, yet can easily bear plasters, therefore when occasion is given, you may make up the ointment in form of a plaster, by adding a little Wax, Ship Pitch, Cyperus, Turpentine.  
A. Both these ointments are apropriated to the spleen and ease the pains thereof, the sides being anointed with them.   

Valentia Scabiosa. John Ardern of Newark.  
Take of the juice of Scabious, in the Summer time strained through a Linen cloth, and with Hog's grease cleared from the skins, let them be beaten in a mortar (not ground) always pouring in the juice by little and little, that the grease may drink it in well and be green, which done, put it in some vessel, and so much juice to it that it may cover the grease, let it stand so nine days, after the ninth day take the said grease with the juice and beat it again, and pour off the thin watery substance, which hath lost its colour, and so let it stand five days, after the 〈◊〉 day, take new juice of Scabious, and beat again with the aforesaid juice, let it stand in some vessel fourteen other days, which being ended beat it again, and purge it from the watery substance as before, then putting fresh juice to it, let it stand other fifteen days, and if it be green enough after it is well beaten, keep it in an earthen or glass vessel for your use.  
A. Thus the Author, now comes the Colleges animadversions upon it.  
Of the quantity both of the Hog's grease and juice, you need not doubt, every Apothecary may use what quantity he pleaseth, let it be done in that proportion, and so often till he see the Ointment look very green, Only thus much we would warn him of, that so much the more green it is, so much the more effectual it is, Also if the Scabious be gathered a day or two before it be beaten, that so it may lose some of its watriness, Also if it be set in the sun so many or more days than the Author appointed, provided that the 〈◊〉 swim above the grease the breadth of two fingers and the vessel be well stopped, we 
* a learned experience for a boy of a dozen years old.  protest we are taught by experience, the ointment will be the greener and the virtues the greater.   

Tapsivalentia. Of the same Author  
Take of Tapsus Barbatus, or Mullen, and with Hog's suet cleansed from the skin, let it be well beaten in a mortar till the grease be well mixed with the juice, which when you have done let it stand nine days or more till the grease look green, which when 〈◊〉 doth, let it be beaten with new juice, and 〈◊〉 it is well coloured with the juice, power off the juice which is superfluous and beat it again with other juice and keep it for your use in an earthen vessel, but you must note, this medicine ought to be beaten once a month, and in beating of it, put in a little oil of Roses, Violets, and Chamomel, that the ointment may drink it in, and if you add a little Populeon it will be the stronger.  
A. It is no more than looking the Simples, viz. Scabious and Mullen and then you have the virtues of both these ointments. But here follows another strange one of the same Author, how true it is I know not, which is—   

Tapsimel.  
Take of the juice of Sullondine and Mullen of each a like, clarified Honey so much as is of the juices, let them boil to the consumption of the juice, then take them from the fire and keep them for your use, and when you would use it for the itch, take of it and mix it with burnt 
* Coperis.  vitriol, and burnt Alum in powder, and if there be necessity boil it till it be 〈◊〉, than put a little of it up in your fundament, and certainly the itch will cease in every part of the body, and this Oyntmet is called Tapsimel from Tapsus Barbatus and Mell and is for certain a noble Ointment.  
This is word for word from the old Manuscript (quoth the College.)  
Let the Apothecary take heed he burn not the Honey in boiling it.   

A Stomach Ointment. Norimberg.  
Take of Oil of Wormwood, Mastic, Spicknard of each an ounce, red Roses, red Coral, Cloves, Cinnamon, wood of Aloes, Mastic. Mints, Schoenanth of each a drachm, Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into an Oynmtent according to art.  
A. It strengthens the stomach and liver provokes appetite and help, digestion.   

An Ointment for the Worms. Foesius  
Take of Oil of Rue, Savin, Mints, Wormwood, and bitter Almonds, of each an ounce and an half, juice of the flowers or leaves of Peaches, and Wormwood of each half an ounce, powder of Rue, Mints, Gentian, Centaury the less, Tormentil of each a drachm, the seeds of Coleworts, the pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms, Aloes Hepatick, three drachms, the meal of Lupins half an ounce, Myrrh washed in grass-water a drachm and an half, Bulls gall an ounce and an half with juice of Lemons so much as is sufficient, and an ounce and an half of Wax, make it into an Ointment according to art.  
A. The belly being anointed with it, kills the Worms.     

PLASTERS AND CERECLOATHS.  

A Plaster of Ammoniacum.  
Take of Ammoniacum an ounce, Ointment of Marshmallows and Melilot plaster of each half an ounce, Bran or (as we in Sussex call it) Cheezel of corn well fiefted, an ounce, the powder of Briony and Orris root of each half an ounce, the fat of Ducks, Geese and Hens of each three drachms, Bdellium, Galbanum of each three drachms and an half, Per rozin, wax of each five ounces, oil of Orris, Turpentine of each an ounce and an half, let the fats and oil boil with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Lin and 〈◊〉 seeds, and that it may be brought to the due form of a plaster, add the Wax and Turpentine, afterwards the ointment of Marsh mallows and Melliot Plaster, than the Gums dissolved in Vinegar, and lastly the powders and perrozin in powder, mix them all well together and make it into plaster according to art.  
A. By [Plaster] always understand not a plaster spread upon a cloth, but a rol made to spread such a one withal.  
A. It softens and assuageth hard swellings, and scatters the humours offending, applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen and assuageth pains thence arising.   

Album Coctum de Cerussa. Ulms.  
Take of Ceruse ground into very fine powder, yellow Wax, oil of Olives of each equal parts, the Ceruse being put into a brass pan let the oil be added by degrees, set it over a gentle fire, stir it continually till they be incorporated, then put in the Wax thin scraped, neither put it in altogether at one time neither let it boil till it be all melted, then boil it all according to art till it begin to look black, and be of a just thickness.  
A. It helps burns, dry scabs, and hot ulcers, and in general what ever sores abound with moisture.   

A Plaster of Bayberries. Mesue.  
Take of Bayberries two ounces, Frankincense, Mastic, Myrrh of each one ounce, Cyperus, Costus of each half an ounce, Turpentine an ounce, clarified Honey so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaster according to art.  
A. It is an excellent plaster to ease any pains coming of cold or wind, in any part of the body whether stomach, liver belly reins or bladder.   

Emplastrum Barbarummagnum. Galen.  
Take of 
* stonepitch sure enough.  dry pitch eight pound, yellow Wax six pound eight ounces, Perrozin five pound four ounces, Bitumen Judaicum or else Mummy four pound, Oil a pound and an half, Vert-de-greece, lethargy, Ceruse, of each three ounces, Frankincense half a pound, roch Alum not burnt an ounce and an half, roch Alum burnt four ounces, Opopanax, Scales of brass, Galbanum of each twelve drachms, Aloes, Opium, Myrrh of each half an ounce, juice of Mandrakes, or else the bark of the roots of them dried six drachms, Vinegar five pound, let the lethargy, Ceruse, and Oil be boiled to the thickness of Honey, the Pitch melted and incorporated with the powder of the Bitumen, than the other things added and boiled according to art till the Vinegar be consumed, and the composition brought to a due thickness.  
A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts, easeth the inflammations of wounds, and helps infirmities of the joints, and gouts in the beginning.   

A Plaisier of 〈◊〉. Andernacus.  
Take of green Bettony, Burnet, Agrimony, Sage, Penyroyal, Yarrow, Comfry the greater, Clary of each 〈◊〉 ounces, Frankincense, Mastic of each three drachms, Orris, round Birthwort of each six drachms, white Wax, Turpentine of each eight ounces, Gum Elemni two ounces, perrozin six ounces, 
* know no other 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉- tree.  Venus' Turpentine two ounces, white Wine three pound, let the herbs being bruised be boiled in the Wine, strained, and all the rest being added to the decoction boil it to a plaster according to art.  
A. It is a gallant plaster to unite the skull when it is cracked, to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh, it draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers, restores flesh lost, cleanseth, digesteth, and drieth.   

Emplastrum 〈◊〉.  
Take of Bistort roots, Cyperus, Nuts, red Roses, the three 〈◊〉 of Sanders, Mints, Coriander seeds, of each three drams, 〈◊〉 half an ounce, Hypocistis, Acacia, Dragon's blood, Terra Lemnia, Bole Armenick, red Coral of each two drams, Turpentine washed in Plantain water, four ounces, oil of 〈◊〉 twelve ounces, the juice of 〈◊〉, Plantain, and Orpine of each an ounce, yellow Wax a pound and an half, let the Hypocistis and Acacia be dissolved with the juices, and boiled to a due height, then add the rest, and make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. It is of a fine cool binding, strengthening nature, excellent good to repel hot rheums or vapours that ascend up to the head, the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown.   

Emplastrum Catagmaticum. Vigo.  
Take of the juice of Marshmallow roots six ounces, the bark of the root of Ash tree and the leaves of the tree, the roots 〈◊〉 Comfry the greater and lesser with the leaves and all of each two ounces, Myrtle berries an ounce and an half, the leaves of Willow, the tops of St. John's wort, of each a handful and an half, the things to be bruised being bruised, let them boil together in red Wine, and water in which Smiths quench their 〈◊〉 of each two pound, till half be consumed, 〈◊〉 it and ad oil of Myrtles, Roses and Omphacine, of each a pound and an half, Goat's suet melted, eight ounces, Litharge of gold and silver, red Lead of each four ounces, yellow Wax a pound, Colophonia half a pound, let them boil again to the consumption of the decoction, then add towards the end 〈◊〉, Frankincense, Mastic of each half an ounce, clear Turpentine two ounces, Boy Armenick, Earth of Lemnos, of each an ounce, stir them together till they are boiled enough to be made into a plaster according to art.   

Catagmaticum. Renodaeus.  
Take of the roots of Comfry the less and Marshmallows, 〈◊〉 of the Oak of each two ounces, Plantain, Chamaepitys, St. John's wort, of each a handful, boil them in equal 〈◊〉 of red Wine and Water wherein Smiths quench their Iron, 〈◊〉 half be consumed, strain it, and to the decoction ad 〈◊〉 of Quince seeds extracted in decoction of 
* I know not what better word to give Omazum than tripes 〈◊〉 chitterlings.  Tripes, Oil 〈◊〉 and Roses of each four ounces, Virgins Wax a pound, 〈◊〉 of Gold two ounces, Turpentine three ounces. Balaustins', Roses, Myrtles, Acacia of each half an ounce, 〈◊〉, the seeds of Tutsan, Colophonia, 〈◊〉, Amber of each six drachms, Ship Pitch an ounce and an half, Bowl Armenick 
a Farina volatilis.  fine flower, Frankincense of each twelve drachms, Dragon's blood two ounces, let the water and mussilage be boiled together till the moisture be consumed, then put in the oil, than the Wax, afterward the lethargy, which being boiled, united, stirred and removed from the fire, let first the Turpentine be added, than the powders, so let all of them be mixed stirred and brought into the form of an Emplaster according to art.  
A. Both this and the former are of a binding nature.   

Emplasirum Cephalicum.  
Take of clear Rozin two ounces, black Pitch one ounce, Laudanum half an ounce, Myrrh, Mastic of each a drachm and an half, Juniper Gum two drachms, the flower of Beans and Orobus of each half an ounce, Nigella three drachms, Nutmegs two drachm, Pigeon's dung two ounces, let the Myrrh be dissolved in Malaga Wine, and the rest being mixed in a hot mortar let them be made into a Plaster according to art.  
If you would have it stronger add of the powders of Euphorbium, Pellitory of Spain, and black Pepper of each two scruples.  
A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repel such vapours as annoy it, and those powders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture thereof, and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapours that annoy them.   

Emplastrum Ceroma or Ceroneum. Nich. Alex.  
Take of pitch scraped from a Ship that hath been a long time at Sea, yellow Wax of each seven drachms, Sagapenum six drachms,, Ammoniacum, Turpentine, Colophonia, Saffron of each four drachms, Aloes, Olibanum, Myrrh of each three drachms, Styrax Calamitis, Mastich, Opopanax, Galbanum, Alum, the seeds of Faenugreek of each two drachms, the settlings or 
* dregs.  feces of Liquid Styrax, Bdellium of each one drachm, Litharge half a drachm.  
A. It is of a gentle emollient nature, prevails against stops of the stomach coming of cold, hardness of the spleen, coldness of the liver and matrix.   

A Plaster of Hemlock with Ammoniacum.  
Take of Hemlock four handfuls, Ammoniacum half a pound, infuse them in sharp Vinegar eight days, then boil them till the Ammoniacum be dissolved, then strain out the liquor strongly, afterwards let it boil awhile, then with Wax and Oil of sweet Almonds make it into a Plaster according to art.  
A. I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extreme pains, and allay the inflammations of wounds, for which it is very good.   

Emplasirum de Crusta Panis.  
Take of Mastic, Mints, Spodium, red Coral, all the three sorts of Sanders of each one drachm, a Crust of bread to asted and infused in Rose Vinegar for half an hour, two ounces, oil of Mastic and Quinces of each an ounce, Wax two ounces, Liquid styrax, Laudanum, of each three drachms, Barley meal so much as is sufficient to make it into an Emplaster according to art.  
A. I shall commend this for as gallant a plaster to strengthen the brain as any is in the Dispensatory, the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown, also being applied to the stomach it strengthens it, helps digestion, stays vomiting and putrefaction of the meat there. Montagnana was the Author of it, not the College.   

Emplastrum de 〈◊〉.  
Take of Cummin seeds, Bayberries of each a pound, Perrozin two pound, common Rozin three pound, oil of Dill half a pound, Wax a pound, make a plaster of them according to art.  
A. I am of opinion here is not half oil enough to make it into a plaster, they that make of it, know better than I, I judge but by reason they know by experience.  
A. It assuageth swellings, takes away old aches coming of bruises, and applied to the belly, is an excellent remedy for the wind colic.   

Diachylon simplex. Mesue.  
Take of Mussilage of Foenugreek seed, Linseed, and Mirshmallow roots of each a pound, old Oil three pound, Litharge one pound and an half, let the lethargy be ground very 〈◊〉, and boiled with the oil, over a gentle fire, always stirring it till it be well mixed, then being removed from the fire let it cool a little, afterwards put in the Mussilages, mix them and boil them to their just thickness according to art.  
A. It is an exceeding good remedy for all swellings without pain it softens hardness of the liver and spleen, it is very gentle like the Author of it [Mesue] and very moderate and harmless, and it may be therefore neglected by the Fantastical Chyrurgians of our age.   

Diachilon Ireatum.  
Ad an ounce of powder of Orris to every pound of Diachylon simplex.   

Diachylon magnum. Mesue.  
Take of 〈◊〉 of Gold very finely ground, one pound; Oil of Orris, 〈◊〉, and Chamomel, of each eight ounces, mussilage of 〈◊〉 roots, Linseeds, and Foenugreek seeds, 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, fat figs, 〈◊〉- grass, the juice of Orris, and 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or oil of sheep's feet, of each twelve drams and an half, 〈◊〉 three ounces, Per-rozen, yellow Wax of each two onces, make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. It dissolves hardness and inflammations.   

Diachylon magnum cum gummi. Renodaeus.  
Take of Bdellium, Sagapenum, Ammoniacum of each an ounce, being dissolved in white Wine, let them be added to the mass of Diachylon magnun, being first strained and boiled to the thickness of Honey, so will it be Diachylon with gams.  
A. This is the best to dissolve hard swellings of all the three.   

Diachylon Compound: or a Plaster of Mussilages. Mesue.  
Take of Mussilages of Marshmallow rooes, Linseeds, Foenugreek seeds, the middle barks of Elm of each four ounces and an half, oil of Chamomel, Lilies, and Dill of each one ounce and an half, Ammoniacnm, Galbanum, Opopanax, Sagapenum of each half an ounce, new Wax twenty ounces, Turpentine two ounces, Saffron 2. drachms, let the gums be dissolved in Wine, & make of them a plaster according to art.  
A. It ripens swellings and breaks them, and cleanseth them when they are broken.   

Diapalma or Diachalciteas. Galen.  
Take of old Hogs-grease cleansed from the skin; 2. pound, old Oil, Litharge of silver ground very small of each three pound, 〈◊〉 burnt, or else white 〈◊〉 iol burnt and beaten into powder 4. ounces; It is made in this manner, first let the Litharpe boil with the oil & grease along time, continually sttirring it with the branch of a Palm or other tree of a binding nature, as Oak, Box, or Medler, which is new cut, that so the virtue of the Spatula may be mixed with the plaster, cutting off the top and the rind, even to the wood itself, the mixture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made thick by boiling and stirring, and removed from the fire, put in white Copperis, for want of true 〈◊〉 in powder, and so make it into a laudable mass for an 〈◊〉.  
A. It is a very drying binding plaster, profitable in green wounds to hinder putrefaction, as also in pestilential sores after they are broken, and ruptures, as also in burnings & scaldings.   

Emplastrum Diaphoenicon Calidum. Mesue.  
Take of Wax two ounces, oil of Roses and Spicknard of each four ounces, melt them together, then take of dry dates by number forty, white bread an ounce, steep them in Wine two days, then take of the pulp of Quinces boiled in red Wine an ounce, bruise it and mix it with the former, then add these things that follow, beaten into fine powder, take of Mastic, Frankincense, Roman Wormwood of each two drams and an half, wood of Aloes, Mace, Myrrh, Aloes washed, Spicknard, Acacia, Gallia Moschata, Trochisci Ramich, Calamus Aromaticus, of each a drachm, Laudanum two drachms, mix them together and make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. It strengthens the stomach and liver exceedingly, helps fluxes.   

Diaphoenicon Frigidum. Mesue.  
Take of ripe Dates boiled in austere Wine five ounces, white Bread an ounce, the flesh of Quinces boiled in Austere Wine an ounce and an half, Styrax Calamitis, Mastic, Laudanum, Acacia, the juice of sour Grapes, the flowers of a Vine that bears sour Grapes, red Roses, Yellow Sanders, Trochisci Ramich, Myrrh, Wood of Aloes of each half an ounce, Wax four ounces, Turpentine washed with Rose water, an ounce and an half, oil of Roses ten ounces, Austere Wine so much as is sufficient, make it into a plaster according to art.  
It strengthens the belly and liver, helps concoction in those parts, and distribution of humours, stays vomiting & fluxes.   

Emplastrum Divinum. Nich.  
Take of Loadstone four ounces, Ammoniacum three ounces and three drachms, Bdellium two ounces, Galbanum, 〈◊〉 of each ten drachms, Olibanum nine drachms, Opopanax, Mastich, long Birthwort, Vert-de-greece of each an ounce, Litharge a pound and an half, common Oil a pound and an half, new Wax eight ounces, mix them according to art, first let the lethargy be stirred with the Oil a long time, then boiled to a thickness, then let the Wax be added, that being melted let it be taken from the fire, and put in the Gums dissolved either in Wine or Vinegar, boiled and strained, than the powder of the Mastic, Myrrh, Frankincense, Birthwort, and Loadstone, last of all the Vert-de-greece, lest that being too much boiled make the plaster black, thus make it into a Plaster according to art.  
A. It is of a cleansing nature exceeding good against malignant ulcers, it consumes corruption engenders new flesh, and brings them to a scar.   

Emplastrum de gummi Elemni.  
Take of Gum Elemni three ounces, Perrozin, pure Wax, Ammoniacum of each two ounces, Turpentine three ounces and an half, Malaga Wine so much as is sufficient, boil the rest to the consumption of the Wine, then add the Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar.  
A. The operation is the same with Linimentum Arceus before mentioned.   

Emplastrum Gracia Dei. Nicholaus.  
Take of Turpentine half a pound, Rozin a pound, white Wax four ounces, Mastich an ounce, fresh Bettony, Vervain, and Burnet of each a handful, let the herbs being bruised be sufficiently boiled in white Wine, the liquor pressed out in which let the Wax and Rozin be boiled, to the consumption of the liquor, being taken from the fire let the Turpentine be mixed with it, lastly the Mastic in powder and so make of them a plaster according to art.  
A. It is excellent good in wounds and green ulcers, for it keeps back inflammations, cleanseth and joineth wounds, fills up ulcers with flesh.   

Emplastrum Griseum, of Lapis Calaminarie.  
Take of Lapis Calaminaris an ounce, Litharge two ounces, Ceruse half an ounce, Tutty a drachm, Turpentine six drams, white Wax an ounce and an half, Stag's Suet two ounces, Frankincense five drachms, Mastic three drachms, Myrrh two drachms, Camphire a drachm and an half, Wax and Stag's suet so much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaster according to art.  
A. I wonder of thirty four Physicians the compiler of this book, not one of them could see, Stag's suet was set down twice, would not a sober man think they minded much what they were about?  
A. It dries, fills, and skins ulcers.   

Emplastrum ad Hirniam. Fernclius.  
Take of Galls, Cypress nuts, Pomegranate pills, Balaustins Acacia, the seeds of Plantain, 
* Psyllium.  Fleawort and water-Cresses, Acorn cups, Beans roasted, long and round Birthwort, Myrtle Berries of each half an ounce, let all these being powdered be steeped four days in Rose Vinegar, then dried, then take Comfry the greater and lesser, Hors-tail, Woad, Cetrach, Osmond royal, fearn of each an ounce, Frankincense, Myrrh Aloes, Mastic, Mummy of each two ounces, Bowl Armenick washed in Vinegar, Lapis Calaminaris prepared, Litharge of Gold, Dragon's blood of each three ounces, Ship pitch two pound, Turpentine six ounces or so much as is sufficient to make it up into a plaster according to art.  
A. The plaster is very binding and knitting, apropriated to ruptures or burstness, as the title of it specifies, it strengthens the reins and womb, and stays abortion or miscarriage in women, it consolidates wounds, and helps all diseases coming of cold and moisture.   

Emplastrum Hystericum. Nichol. Praep. according to Renod.  
Take of Bistort roots a pound, wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, Nutmegs, Barberry kernels, Anthera of each an ounce, Cinnamon, Cloves, Schoenanthus, Chamomel flowers of each half an ounce, Frankincense, Mastic, Alipta Moschata, Gallia moschata, Styrax Calamitis of each a drachm, of the best 〈◊〉 half a drachm, Wax a pound and an half, Turpentine half a pound, Oleum Moschelinum four ounces, Laudanum four pound, Ship pitch three pound, let the Wax and pitch be melted, the Laudanum and Turpentine added to them, than the Styrax, and last of all the rest beaten into powder and so made into a plaster according to art.  
A. I know not justly what they mean by that word [Anthera] in the receipt, unless they mean the hairy threads in the middle of the Rose, which usually country people call (though falsely) Rose seeds, as I take it Apothecaries call them by an apish name Anthera Rosarum, of the Greek words, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the flowers of Roses, But indeed the Ancients as Galen etc. gave the word [Anthera] to many compound medicines that had no roses at all in them, but I cannot stand to dispute the story here, The plaster being applied to the navel 〈◊〉 a means to withstand the fits of the mother in such women as are subject to them.   

Emplastrum de Janua, or of Bettony. Nicholaus.  
Take of the Juice of Bettony, Plantain, and Smallage of each a pound, Wax, Pitch, Rozin, Turpentine of each half a pound, boil the Wax and Rozin in the Juices with a gentle fire, continually stirring them till the juice be consumed, then add the Turpentine and Pitch continually stirring it till it be brought into the consistence of a plaster according to art.  
A. I take Mesue indeed to be the Author of it (or else I am mistaken) it matters not much which, it is a gallant plaster for pains in the head, and to recruit an addle brain, helps green wounds, ceaseth inflammations, strengthens the liver.   

A Plaster of Mastich. Renodaeus.  
Take of Mastic three ounces, Bowl Armenick washed in red Wine an ounce and an half, red Roses six drachms, Ivory, red Coral of each half an ounce, Turpentine two ounces, Wax, oil of Myrtles of each half a pound, make of them a plaster according to art by adding Colophonia or else Tacamahaca, Laudanum of each two ounces.  
A. It is a binding Plaster, strengthens the stomach.   

A. Plaster of Melilot. Mesue.  
Take of Melilot flowers six ounces, Chamomel flowers, 〈◊〉 seed, Marshmallow roots, Bayberries, Marjoram, tops of Wormwood of each three drachms, Smallage seed, Cardamons, Orris, Cyperus, Spicknard, Cassia lignea, the seeds of Bishop's weed of each a drachm and an half Ammoniacum ten drachms, Styrax Calamitis, 〈◊〉 of each five drachms, Turpentine one ounce and an half fat Figgs by number twelve, Goat's suet, Rozin, of each two ounces and an half, Wax six ounces, oil of 〈◊〉 and Spicknard of each so much as is sufficient, then take of fresh Melilot, Foenugreek, and Chamomel of each so much as is 〈◊〉, boil it in a quart of water till half be consumed, then having strained it, the things to be beaten being beaten into very fine powder, the roots and figs boiled and pulped, and added to the decoction, let them boil, always stirring them that they burn not, than the Oils, Turpentine, Wax, Suet, and Rozin being melted together and the Gums dissolved in Vinegar, make up all into an Emplaster according to art.  
A. It mollisies the hardness of the stomach, liver, spleen, bowels and other parts of the body, it wonderfully assuageth pain and easeth hypocondriac melancholy, and the rickets.   

Emplastrum de Minio Compositum. Vigo  
Take of oil of Roses a pound and an half, oil of Myrtles, Vnguentum Populeon of each four ounces, Hen's grease two ounces, the suet of a Wether and a Heiser, of each half a pound, Hog's grease seven ounces, Litharge of Gold and Silver of each three ounces and an half, Ceruse four ounces, red lead three ounces, Turpentine ten ounces, Wax so much as is sufficient to make it into a plaster tending to blackness according to art.  
A. It potently cures wounds, old and malignant ulcers.   

Another plaster of Red Lead simple. London.  
Take of red Lead nine ounces, oil of red Roses one pound and an half, white Wine Vinegar six ounces, boil them to the perfect consistence of a plaster.  
Also it is prepared without Vinegar in this manner: Take of red Lead a pound, oil of Roses a pound and an half, Wax half a pound, make it into, a plaster according to art.  
A. It is a fine cooling healing plaster.   

Emplastrum Isis Epigoni. Galen.  
Take of yellow Wax an hundred drachms, Turpentine two hundred grams, scales of Copper, Vert-de greese, round Birth wort, Frank in sense, Shall Armoniac, Ammoniacum, burnt Brass of each eight drachms, burnt Alum six drachms, Aloes, Myrrh, 〈◊〉 of each an ounce and an half, old Oil a pound, sharp Vinegar so much as is sufficient, let the metals be dissolved in the sun with the Vinegar, then put in those things that may be melted, last of all the powders, and make them all into 〈◊〉 Emplaster.  
A. Galen Apropriates it to the head and ulcers there: I know no reason but why it may as well serve for other parts of the body.   

A Plaster of Mastich. Nich. Alex.  
Take of Mastic, Ship Pitch, Sagapenum, Wax of each SI drachms, Ammoniacum, Turpentine, Colophonia, Saffron, Aloes, Frankincense, Myrrh, of each three drachms, Opopanax, Galbanum, Styrax Calamitis, Alum (Rondeletius appoints and we from him) Bitumem, Foenugreek, of each two drachms, the feces of liquid Styrax, Bdellium, lethargy, of each half a drachm, Let the lethargy being beaten into powder be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water, then add the pitch, which being melted, ad the wax and Ammoniacum, afterwards let the Sagapenum, Opopanax and Galbanum be put in, than the Styrax and feces being mixed with the Turpentine, last of all the Colophonia, Mastich, Frankincense, Bdellium, Alum, Myrrh, and Foenugreek in powder, let them be made into a plaster.  
A. It strengthens the stomach and helps digestion.   

Emplastrum Metroproptoticon.  
Take of Mastic an ounce and an half, pure Galbanum dissolved in red Wine and strained, six drachms, Cypress Turpentine two drachms, Cypress-Nuts, Galls of each a drachm and an half, Oil of Nutmegs by expression a drachm, Ship-Pitch two drachms and an half, Musk two grains and an half, let the Mastic, Pitch, Galbanum, and Turpentine be lightly beaten in an hot mortar, with an hot pestle, in the end add the oil of Nutmegs, than the powders sprinkled in by degrees, than the Musk dissolved upon a marble with a little oil of mastic, mix them together exactly and make of them an Emplaster.  
A. It was invented (as I suppose) to comfort and strengthen the retentive faculty in the stomach and belly, and therefore stays looseness and vomiting, and helps the fits of the mother.   

Emplastrum nigrum. August. Called in High Dutch 〈◊〉.  
Take of Colophonia, Rozin, Ship Pitch, White Wax, Roman Vitriol, Ceruse, Olibanum, Myrrh of each eight ounces, oil of Roses seven ounces, oil of Juniper berries three ounces, oil of Eggs two ounces, oil of Spike one ounce, white Vitriol, red Coral, Mummy, of each two ounces, Earth of Lemnos, Mastich, Dragon's blood of each one ounce, the fat of an Heron one ounce, the fat of 
* a kind of fish.  Timallus three ounces, Loadstone prepared two ounces, Earthworms prepared, Camphire, of each one ounce, make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. It is very good (say they) in green wounds and pricks.   

Emplaistrum Nervinum. Vigo.  
Take of oil of Chamomel and Roses of each two ounces, oil of Mastic, Linseed and Turpentine, of each one ounce and an half, boiled Turpentine four ounces, the suet of a 
* by all means  gelded Calf, and an hee-Goat, of each two ounces and an half, the herbs of Rosemary, Bettony and Horse tail, Centaury the less, of each one handful, Earthworms washed in Wine and cleansed three ounces, the leaves and seeds of St. john's Wort, of each a handful, Mastic in powder, Gum Elemni of each ten drachms, Maddir roots ten drachms, Ship-Pitch, Rozin of each an ounce and an half, Litharge of Gold and Silver of each two ounces and an half, red lead two ounces, Galbanum, Sagapenum, Ammoniacum of each three drachms, let the herbs roots and worms be boiled in a pint and an half of Wine, till half be consumed, then pressed out, in the liquors boil the oil, suets, lethargy, and red Lead, till the Wine be consumed, then add the Gums dissolved in Wine, afterward the Turpentine, Rozin, Pitch, and Mastic, and make of them a plaster according to art.  
A. It strengthens the brain and nerves.   

Emplastrum Oxycroceum. Nicholaus.  
Take of Saffron, Ship-Pitch, Colophonia, Wax of each four ounces, Turpentine, Galbanum, Ammoniacum, Myrrh, Olibanum, Mastich of each an ounce and three drachms, let this be the manner of making of it, let the wax, Colophonia and Turpentine be melted together, then taking it from the fire add the Pitch, than the Galbanum, Ammoniacum, Frankincense, and Myrrh dissolved in Vinegar, afterward the Mastic, than the Saffron in powder, well moistened in Vinegar, and so make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. It is of a notable softening and discussing quality, helps broken bones, and any parts molested with cold, old aches, stifness of the limbs by reason of wounds, ulcers, fractures, or dislocations.   

Vigonis Oxycroceum (in quo nil croci) Prestantius. In plain English thus Vigo his more excellent Plaster of Vinegar and Saffron, in which is no Saffron.  
Take of oil of Myrtles and Roses Omphacine of each a pound and an half, juice of Marshmallow roots two pound, the roots and leaves of Ash tree and Comfry the lesser, the the leaves of Myrtle of each a handful, let all of them being bruised be boiled a little in red wine, even till half be consumed, with Myrrh and Frankincense, of each half an ounce, strain it strongly, and ad to the decoction Goat's suit half a pound, Turpentine two ounces, Mastic one ounce, boil them again with the Oils to the consumption of the decoction, strain it and then add lethargy of Gold and Silver of each three ounces, Bowl Armenick, earth of Lemnos of each two ounces, red Lead ten drachms, boil it with a gentle fire always stirring it, and with a sufficient quantity of wax make it into a plaster according to art.  
A. Surely the College quoted this receipt, (which more properly might be called Vign his nonsense) for Apothecaries to laugh at, not to make, the way of making of it up being almost as childish as the title, it dries and binds.   

Emplastrum de Ranis. Vigo.  
Take of oil of 〈◊〉, Dil, Spicknard, Lilies of each two ounces, oil of Saffron (
* the College send you to page 132. & if you look look there, there's no such thing as oil of Saffron.  see page) an ounce, Hog's grease a pound, the fat of a Calf half a pound, Euphorbium five drachms, Frankincense ten drachms, oil of Eays an ounce and an half, Viper's fat or for want of it take a Snakes, two ounces and an half, live Frogs by number six, earth worms washed in Wine, three ounces and an half, the juice of the roots of Walwort and Elicampane of each two ounces, Schoenanth, Stoechas, Mugwort, of each a handful, Wine a quart, Litharge of Gold a pound, Turpentine two ounces, yellow wax so much as is sufficient, Liquid Styrax an ounce and an half, Quicksilver killed either with fasting spittle or juice of Lēmons four ounces, This is the manner of making it, let the frogs, worms, & herbs with their juices, the oils of Dil, Chammomel, Lilies, grease and suet be boiled in a pound & an half of Wine, strain it, then add the lethargy, Wax 4. ounces, and the remainder of the Wine, then boil it till all the Wine be consumed and it stick not to your fingers, then add the oil of Bayss, Saffron, and Spike, and the fat, afterward the Euphorbium and Frankincense, last of all the quick Silver, well mixed 〈◊〉 the liquid Styrax and Turpentine, stir them all 〈◊〉 till they be incorporated, take heed you put not in the quick Silver while the mass is too hot lest it fly out.  
A. I have known it applied to the swelling in the throat called the King's Evil, but for my part I fancy not the receipt, neither for that nor any thing else.   

Emplastrum Sanctum. Andr. è Cruse.  
Take of perrozin twelve ounces, oil of Bayss, Turpentine of each two ounces, Gum Elemni four ounces, let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan, stirring it with a brass instrument, then add the oil of Bayss and Turpentine, boil it a little, then put it in a linen bag and that which drops through keep in a glazed pot for your use.  
A. The virtues are of the same with Arceus his Lineament.   

Sparadrapum seu Tela. Gualt. de Renod.  
Take of oil of Roses half a pound, Ram's suet four ounces, Wax ten ounces, lethargy, Perrozin, Frankincense, Mastic of each two ounces, Bowl Armenick, fine flower of each an ounce, boil the Oil, Suet, and Litharge together till the lethargy be well incorporated, in which being warm, you may dip your tents.   

Emplastrum Stephaniaion.  
Take of Laudanum half an ounce, Styrax Calamitis, Juniper Gum of each two drachms, Amber, Cypress, Turpentine of each one drachm, red Coral, Mastic, of each half a dram, the flowers of Sage, red Roses, Orris Florentine of each one scruple, Rozin washed in Rose water half an ounce, let the Rozin, Laudanum, and Mastic, the Styrax, Juniper Gum, and Turpentine, be lightly beaten with a hot pestle in a hot mortar according to art, so long (putting in a little red Wine, the while) till you see them well incorporated, then put in the powders and make them up being well mixed into an Emplaster.   

Emplastrum sine Pari.  
Take of Frankincense, Bdellium, Styrax of each 〈◊〉 drachms, Ammoniacum, Galbanum of each one drachm and an half, Ship Pitch six drachms, the marrow of a Stag, 〈◊〉 Hens and Geese, of each two drachms, Sulphur vivum 〈◊〉 in milk, Hermodactils in powder of each a drachm and an half, let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine (not in Vineger because that is inimical to the nerves) and with two parts of oil of Roses complete, and one part of oil of Eggs and little oil of Turpentine make it into a plaster according to art.   

Slicticum. Paracelsus.  
Take of oil of Olives six ounces, Wax one ounce and an half, Litharge four ounces and an half, Ammoniacum, Bdellium of each half an ounce, Galbanum, Opopanax, 〈◊〉 Calaminarius, oil of Bays, both sorts of birthwort, Myrrh, Frankincense of each two drachms, pure Turpentine one ounce, let the Oil, Wax and lethargy be boiled together till it will not stick to your fingers, then being removed from the fire let it cool a little, adding the gums dissolved in white-Wine Vinegar, which evaporate away by boiling, then strain them, last of all ad the powders, turpentine, and oil of bays, make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. Both this and the former, strengthen the nerves, draw out corruption, take away pains and aches, & restore strength to members that have lost it, the last is most effectual.   

A Plaster for the Stomach. Mesue  
Take of wood of Aloes, Wormwood, Gum Arabic, Mastic, Cyperus, Costus, Ginger of each half an ounce, Calamus Aromaticus, Olibanum, Aloes, of each three drachms, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, Spicknard, Nutmegs, Gallia Moschata, Schaenanthus, of each one drachm and an half, with 〈◊〉 of Quinces make it into an Emplaster; and when you have spread it upon a cloth perfume it with wood of Aloes, and apply it to your stomach.   

Another plaster for the Stomach.  
Take of Mints, Wormwood, Stoechas, Bay leaves, of each one drachm, Marjoram, red Roses, yellow Sanders of each two drachms, Calamus Aromaticus, wood of Aloes, Lavender flowers, Nutmegs, Cubebs, Galanga, long Pepper, Mace, of each a drachm, Mastic three drachms, Cloves two drachms and an half, oil of Mints an ounce and an half, 〈◊〉 oil an ounce, oil of Spike one drachm, Rozin, Wax, of each four ounces, Laudanum three ounces, liquid styrax half an ounce, make them into a plaster according to art.  
A. Both this and the former strengthen the stomach exceedingly, help digestion, and stay vomiting.    

CERECLOATHS.  

A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum.  
Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar an ounce, Vnguentum de 〈◊〉, Melilot plaster of each half an ounce, Bran an ounce, powder of the roots of Briony and Orris, of each half an ounce, the grease of Ducks, Geese and Hens, of each three drachms, oil of Orris one ounce and an half, let them boil gently in the mussilages of Lin and Foenugreek seeds so much as is sufficient, by adding Wax four ounces make it into a Cerecloath according to art.  
A. It assawageth swellings, or ripens and breaks them, and easeth pains thereby coming.   

A Cerecloath of Galbanum.  
Take of Galbanum prepared one ounce and an half, Affa foetida half an ounce, Carrot seeds one scruple, Myrrh two drachms, Bdellium one dhachm, 
* Matricaria.  Featherfew, Mugwort of each half a drachm, let the Gums be dissolved in Vinegar, and with a sufficient quantity of Wax made into a Cerecloath according to art.  
A. Being applied to the belly of a woman after labour, it cleanseth her of any relics accidentally left behind, helps the fits of the mother and other accidents incident to women in that case.   

Ceratum Oesypatum. Galen.  
Take of Oesypus ten ounces, oil of Chamomel and Orris, of each half a pound, yellow Wax two pound, Rozin one pound, Mastic, Turpentine of each one ounce, Spicknard two drachms and an half, Saffron a drachm and an half, Ammoniacum an ounce, Styrax Calamitis half an ounce, make them into a Cerecloath according to art.  
A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver, spleen, womb, nerves, joints and other parts of the body, and is a great easer of pain.   

Ceratum Santalinum. Mesue.  
Take of Rose; twelve drachms, red Sanders ten drachms, white and yellow Sanders of each six drachms, Bowl Armenick seven drachms, Spodium four drachms, Camphire two drachms, white Wax washed thirty drachms, oil of Roses six ounces, make it into a Cerecloath according to art.  
A. It wonderfuly helps hot infirmities of the stomach, liver, and other parts being but applied to them.   

Ceratum Stomachicum. Galen.  
Take of red Roses, Mastich of each twenty drachms, dried Wormwood fifteen drachms, Spicknard ten drachms, Wax four ounces, Rose water, so much as is sufficient, oil of Roses a pound and an half, let it boil so till it be like an ointment, then add oil of Roses eight ounees, Wax fourteen ounces, the powders afore mentioned (excepting the Mastic which must be melted in the oil of Roses) of all them used in this manner make a Cerecloath according to art.  
A. It strengthens the stomach and liver, easeth their pains, provokes appetite to ones meat, and helps digestion.   

Emplastrum à Nostralibus: Commonly called, Flower of Ointments.  
Take of Rozin, Perrozin, Wax, Sheep's suet of each half a pound, Olibanum four ounces, Turpentine two ounces and an half, Myrrh, Mastic, of each one ounce, Camphire two drachms, white Wine half a pint, boil them together into the form of a Cerecloath.  
A. I found this receipt in an old manuscript written in the year 1513. the quantity of the ingredients but very little altered (except analogically) and the virtue of it thus described verbatim.  
It is well clensande and well sowdande and generande the flesh, and heland more yn eight days then any other 〈◊〉 wool do yn a monyth, for it will suffer no corruption yn a wound, ne no dead flesh to bide 〈◊〉, also it is good for headache and for wound yn the brain, and for all mannyr posthymes yn the head, or in the body, for swelling of the ears, or of the cheeks, for all mannyr of sinews that is grieved, or breysyd or sprung, and it wool draw out iron or splynts of trees, or thorns, or broken bones, or any other things that may grow yn a wound, and it is good for biting of venemos 〈◊〉, and it rots and healls all mannyr of boches without fawt, and it is good for fester or canker, and for nolime 〈◊〉, 2nd it drawys out all mannyr of aching yn the lyver or reins, or milt, and helpeth the emerauds.    

CHEMICAL OILS  
A. 1. I Desire you to take notice before I begin, that Chemical oils generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning, but mixed with other convenient medicines.  
A. 2. They carry the very same virtue the Simples do, but are far more prevalent, as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross.  

OIL OF HERBS.  

Oil of Wormwood.  
Take of dried Wormwood a pound, spring water twenty pound, infuse the Wormwood in the water twenty four hours, then distil it in a great Alembick with his refrigeratory, so shall you draw out the oil with the water, which you may separate with a funnel, keep the water for another distillation.  
A. Your best way to learn to still Chemical oil is to learn of an Alchemist, for I rest confident the greatest part of the College had no more skill in Chemistry than I have in building houses, but having found out certain models in old rusty Authors, tell people SO they must be done. I can teach a man SO, how to build a house, first he must lay the foundation, then rear up the sides, then join the rasters, then build the chimneys, tile the top and plaster the walls, but how to do one 〈◊〉 of this I know not: And so play the College here, for the Alchemists have a better way by far to draw them, the truth is; I am in a manner tied to their method here, from which I may not step aside, if my country kindly accept this, (which is the beginning of my labours) I may happily put forth something else for the Ingenious to whet their 〈◊〉 upon, Only here I quote the oils in the College order, and then quote the virtue of the 〈◊〉 of them that so the reader may know by a penny how a shilling is coined.  
After the same manner is prepared oil of Chamomel flowers, Chelondine, Eyebright, Hyssop, Lavender, Margerum, Mints, Watercresses, Origanum, Penyroyal, Roses, Rosemary, Rue, Savin, Sage, Savory, Time, Verbascum and all other flowers and hot herbs.  
A. I 〈◊〉 instance here only in oil of Lavender, commonly called oil of Spike, which helps the ranning of the reins they being anointed with it, it expels worms, two drops of it being taken in Wine, the region of the back being anointed with it, it helps the palsy, for all the rest see the virtues of the herbs themselves.    

OIL OF SEEDS.  

Oil of Dill Seeds.  
Take of Dill seeds bruised two ponnd, spring water sixteen pints, steep them for twenty four hours, then distil them in a great alembic with his Refrigeratory, draw out the water and oil which you may separate with a funnel.  
In the same manner is prepared oil of the seeds of Annis, Caraway, Cmmmin, Carrots, Fennel, Wheat, Parsly, Rue, Saxifrage etc.  
A. Oil of Annis seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes ordissines in the head, yes its chief operation is upon the breast and lungs, it helps narrowness of the breast, rawness and wind in the stomach, all infirmities there, coming of cold and wind, strengthens the nerves, six drops is enough at a time, taken in broth or any other convenient liquor.  
A. As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast, so are Fennel seeds to the head, the oil of which cleanseth the brain of cold infirmities, lethargies, indisposition of the body, numbness, want of motion, also it helps the stomach and expels wind.  
A. Cummin seeds, the oil of them is a great expeller of wind, nothing better, it also wonderfully easeth pains of the spleen, pains in the reins and bladder, stopping of urine especially if it come of wind, and is a present remedy for the colic, for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds.    

OIL OF BERRIES.  

Oil of Juniper Berries.  
Take of fresh Juniper berries fifty pound, bruise them and put them in a wooden vessel with twenty four pints of water, adding to them a pound of sour Leven, stop the vessel close, and let them stand in a Cellar three months, then distil them in an Alembick with a sufficient quantity of water, separate the oil and reserve the water for another distillation.  
In the same manner is made oil of Bay berries, and Ivy berries.  
A. Oil of Juniper berries, prevails wonderfully, in pains of the yard, and running of the reins, 〈◊〉 falling sickness, it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence, and all evil airs, it purgeth the reins, provokes urine, breaks the stone, helps the dropsy, the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops, outwardly by unction it helps the gout, two or three drops dropped upon the navel helps the Colic.  
A. Oil of Bay berries helps the Colic and Iliack passion.  
A. Oil of Ivy berries helps cold diseases of the joints, the stone, and provokes the terms in women.    

OIL OF SPICES.  

Oil of Cinnamon.  
Take of bruised Cinnamon five pound, spring water fifty pints, steep them twenty four hours, then distil them with an Alembick.  
After the same manner is made Oil of 〈◊〉, Mace, Nutmegs, Pepper.  
A. One or two drops of Oil of Cinnamon is enough to take at a time, and is exceeding good for such as are in Consumptions. See [Cinnamon] among the simples.  
A. Oil of Mace is excellent good for Rheums in the head: and oil of Pepper for the Colic.    

OIL OF BARKS.  
Oil of the dried Barks of Oranges, 〈◊〉, Lemmons, is prepared as oil of Herbs.   

OIL OF WOODS.  

Oil of Guajacum.  
Oil of Guajacum is made of the wood by a retort in a close Reverberatory, let the sweeter and thinner part be separated from the grosser, and rectified with salt, or Tartar 〈◊〉, or Colcolthar, or sand.  
After the same manner is made oil of Box, Oak and other solid woods.  
Oil of Sassafras is made like oil of Cinnamon, and so is made oil of Rhodium, Juniper, Rosemary, Ivy.    

OIL OF THINGS TO BE MELTED.  

Oil of Wax.  
Take of yellow Wax one pound, melt it, and add to it three pound of Tiles beaten into powder, mix them, and put them into a retort, and draw out the oil with a convenient fire; it is rectified in a retort without tiles, adding water to it.  
After the same manner is prepared Oil of all 〈◊〉.  
A. I am of opinion that oil of Wax, is as singular a remedy for burns, and burning ulcers as any is, or need to be.    

OIL OF GUMS AND ROZINS.  

Oil of Myrrh.  
Take of Myrrh bruised six pound, Conduit Water thirty pound, Bay salt six pound, mix them together and distil them in an Alembick.  
A. It keeps wounds (and all things else saith Fior avantus) from putrefaction, it makes the face fair and youthful, quickly cures wounds, and deafness being dropped into the ears.   

Oil of Turpentine.  
Take of Venice Turpentine eight and twenty pound, spring water ninety six pound, distil them in a Copper vessel with his Refrigeratory, so will the Oil come out thin and white, and the Colophonia will remain at bottom if the fire be increased. This white Oil may commodiously be drawn in Balneo Mariae without burning.  
A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves, and all diseases coming of cold and wind, it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungs, as Asthmaes, difficulty of breathing etc. A drachm being taken in the morning, outwardly it adorns the body, takes away the prints of 〈◊〉, and the small pocks, chaps in the skin and breasts of women, and deafness being dropped into the ears.   

Oil of Balsam.  
Take of Myrrh, Aloes, Spicknard, Dragon's blood, 〈◊〉, Mummy, Opopanax, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Bdellium, Ammoniacum; Sarcocolla, Saffron, Mastic, Gum Arabic, liquid Styrax of each two drachms, Laudanum, Castorium of each two drachms and an half, Musk half a dram, Turpentine the weight of them all: the things to be bruised being bruised let them be mixed and distilled in an Alembick according to art.  
A. It 〈◊〉 lost strength and preserves carcases from putrefaction, 
* the region of it.  the back bone being 〈◊〉 with it keeps back the rigour of fevers, it takes away the falling-sickness and such diseases, the fits of the mother, melancholy and sadness without a cause etc.   

Oleum Latiricium, 〈◊〉. Mesue.  
Take of Bricks made of red earth, beaten into pieces of the bigness of an Apple, these being heat red hot, quench in oil 〈◊〉 Rosemary, or old Salad oil, letting them remain in till they are full, then take them out and beat them into powder, than still them in a 〈◊〉 retort, well luted, stop the oil close and keep it for your use.  
A. The oil will quickly penetrate and is a sovereign remedy for the gout, and all cold afflictions in the joints or nerves, cramps, epilepsies, or falling sickness, 〈◊〉, it mollifies hard 〈◊〉, dissolves cold swellings, as also cold distempers of the spleen, reins and bladder.  

* I wonder how 〈◊〉 gross oyies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. ping in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Chymicals.  Oil of Lovage 〈◊〉 made of the flowers of Lovage, four ounces, old oil ten ounces.  
Oil of white Lilies, of the flowers of white Lilies and 〈◊〉 as oil of Roses, but 〈◊〉 off what is yellow.  
Oil of Lilies of the valley is made like to it.   

Oil of Frankincense.  
Take as much Frankincense 〈◊〉 will, put it in a 〈◊〉 and draw 〈◊〉 the oil with a convement 〈◊〉, then rectify 〈◊〉 either by itself or with sand, or salt.  
In the same manner is made oil of Ammoniacum Benzoin, Caranna 
* Hold Learned 〈◊〉! you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whilst your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 open.  Jet, Mastich, Opopanax; Sagapenum 〈◊〉 Styrax, 〈◊〉.    

OIL OF MINERALS AND STONES.  
A. Having perused these oils following, I would willingly have left them quite out, I mean the manner allotted by the College to make them.  
1. Because I fear they and truth are Separatists.  
2. Because the ignorant will 〈◊〉 as well how to make them as they did before, when I have done what I can.  
3. As to Alchemists (to whose profession the making of them belongs) I shall seem like Phormio the Philosopher who having never seen battle, undertook to read a Military lecture before 〈◊〉 who was the best Soldier in the world, but I am in a manner forced to it, He that is able to understand the recepts is as able to understand that the failings are not mine but the Colleges.  

Oil of Antimony.  
Take of crude Antimony, Mercury Sublimate, of each a pound, beat them into powder and put them in a glass retort, with a wide neck, give fire to them by degrees in a Reverberatory, so will a fat distil into a receiver, part of which sticking to the neck of the retort will easily be melted, a gentle fire being held under it, let this fat be rectified in a small alembic or retort, and let the 
* 〈◊〉, I know not 〈◊〉 better English word to 〈◊〉 it.  curd be kept, if you would have it liquid set it in a Cellar in an open glass and it will turn to water or oil which keep in a glass well stopped.   

Oil of Arsenic.  
Take of Crystalline Arsenic (first 〈◊〉 with Colcothar) mix it with an equal part of Salt 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 tartar, let them be calcined between two little 〈◊〉, (the uppermost having a hole 〈◊〉 it) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have done smoking, dissolve the 〈◊〉 thus calcined in warm water, that so the Salt may be 〈◊〉 out, the powder which remains at bottom, moisten with oil of Tartar and dry it by the fire, do so three 〈◊〉, again dissolve it in warm water that you may take out the salt, then will there remain a very white powder and fixed, which being set in a moist place will dissolve into an oil much like butter.   

Oil of Salt.  
Take of French bay-salt made with the heat of the sun, not of the fire, as much as you will, dry it by the fire, to which add its weight in burnt bricks, beat them together in a mortar before they be altogether cold, put them into a retort with a long neck, lute a capacious receiver very well to it, give fire to it by degrees, and in twelve or fourteen hours you shall have the oil in the Receiver, when the furnace is cold and the smoke well ceased, power out the oil and keep it from the air in a glass well stopped, and rectify it from the phlegm.  
But the best oil of salt is better made, if you make the salt into brine of such strength that it will bear an egg, then quench the Bricks being red hot in this brine till they have drunk up all the liquor, then beat them into powder and put them into a Retort well luted, and give fire to it even to the highest degree, and then rectify it from the phlegm.  
A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly, it helps the gout, three drops taken every morning in convenient liquor, preserves youth, consumes the dropsy, resists fevers, convulsions & the falling sickness, being mixed with ointments, it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations.   

Oil of Amber.  
Take of yellow Amber four ounces, beat it into powder, to which being put in a large Viol or a Retort, pour as much sharp wine vinegar, digest it eight days in horse dung, then add to it twice its weight in dry sand, distil it in sand, adding the fire by degrees, rectify it from the sand with salt or Tartar calcined, then with water.  
A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves, as Convolsions, Falling-sickness etc. Being given in convenient liquors, it is a singular remedy against poison and pestilent air, diseases of the reins and bladder, the fits of the mother, the nose being anointed with it, the colic, it causeth speedy labour to women in travail being taken in Vervain water, it strengthens the body exceedingly, as also the brain and senses and is of an opening nature.   

Oil of Sulphur.  
Take a glass bel-still, which will hold sixteen pound at least (for the larger it is so much the better it is) place it upon an earthen 
* Metreta, I know not what English name to give it.  vessel which hath three or four upholders to which the bell may be commodiously fitted, then putting a sufficient quantity of Brimstone into the earthen vessel, burn it under the bell, putting in fresh Brimstone when the first is consumed, let this be done in some obscure place where neither wind nor sun comes.  
The oil will be more in quantity if the vessel that holds the Brimstone stand upon a furnace, and a fire be under it.  
Before you put on the bell perfume it with the smoke of Sage.  
A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold, putrefaction or wind, fevers, agues tertian, quartan or quotidian, Pestilence, wounds and ulcers, affects of the brain, mouth, teeth, liver, stomach, spleen, matrix, bladder, entrails and arteries coming of abundance of humours or putrefaction, outwardly applied it helps fistulas, ulcers of the mouth, and gangrenes, the way to take it inwardly is thus, dip the top of a feather in the oil and wash it in the liquor, or decoction you give it in, in 〈◊〉 agues give it in wines, in which rosemary or mints or both have been boiled, in tertian agues, in Wine, in which centaury hath been boiled, in quartan agues, in Bugloss water, in all of them a little before the fit come, in pestilences, in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boiled, mingled with a little Venice Treacle, in the falling-sickness with decoction of Bettony or Peony, in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hyssop both of them made with Wine, for phlegm in Wormwood water, for the wind chollik in Chamomel flower water, for dropsies and cold livers in Selondine water and Honey, for the rickets and stoppage of the spleen in Tamaris water, for the French pocks in Fumitory or Broomflower water, against worms, in Grass or Wormwood water, for the fits of the mother in decoction of Bettony or Featherfew in Wine, for suppression of urine, in decoction of Garlic with wine, for the gout in decoction of Chamepitys with Wine, in wounds and ulcers the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the oil, it a hollow tooth ache put a drop into it, if all your teeth ache make a decoction of mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this oil to it, and hold it warm in your mouth.   

Oil of Tartar.  
Take of Tartar so much as you will, put it into a large retort, with that proportion, that but the third part of the vessel be filled, distil it in sand with a strong fire, afterwards (the oil being first separated from the water or spirit of Tartar) rectify it with much water, to correct the smell of it, let it stand open a long time in the sun.   

Liquor Tartari commonly called oil of Tartar.  
Take of Tartar so much as is sufficient, fill an earthen vessel not glazed, almost full of it, let it be calcined in a furnace twelve hours, when it is cold put it in Manica Hippocratis, which hang in a moist Cellar that it may dissolve, placing a vessel under it to receive it, that which remains and will not dissolve in the hanging, dissolve in water, and evaporate away the moisture till it begin to look like Alum.  
A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries, and Virgins buy it to take away the sunburn and freckles from their faces, it takes off the rust from Iron, and preserves it bright a long time.   

Oil of vitriol.  
Take of the best Vitriol as much as you will, melt it in a pan, then divide it into thick pieces, the which burn in the fire till they look reddish, then beat them into powder and sprinkle them with the best spirit of Wine, put them into earthen retorts which will bear the fire, increase the fire to them by degrees for three days, till the receivers which were obscured with smoke come to be clear, rectify that distilled liquor, and separate by themselves, the spirit of Wine, the sour spirit of Vitriol, and the strong and ponderous oil.  
A. It must be mixed with other medicines, for it kills being taken alone, it a suageth thirst, allaieth the violent heat in fevers and pestilences, and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful taste to any medicine.   

Aqua Mettis.  
Take of pure Honey four pound, dry sand two pound, still them in a 
* Cueurbita.  glass Still, so capacious that the matter may fill only the fist part of the vessel, first draw away the phlegm, than increasing the fire draw off the water, yellowish in colour and sharp in taste.  
Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over, and calls it Quintessence of honey, and extols the virtues of it to the skies, saith it will revive dying men, which Mr. Charles Butler of Hamshire also affirms.   

Aqua Fortis.  
Take of dried Vitriol two pound, Salt Peter cleansed one pound, bruise them and place them in a reverberatory, in a retort, a large receiver being placed under it, still it by degrees for twenty four hours together, clarify it with a drachm of silver according to art.     

CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS MORE USUAL.  

Steel prepared by the Sun.  
A. It is just so prepared as shall be hereafter showed, only here they appoint it to be set in the sun, there in the shadow, a parles difference.   

Steel prepared by the fire.  
Take of Steel cleansed from the filth, heat it red hot and quench it a dozen times in sharp white Wine Vinegar, and as often in Canary or Malaga Wine, then dry it and grind it upon a stone with oil of Cinnamon and keep it for your use.   

Cremor Tartar.  
Take of Tartar made of White or Rhenish Wine as much as you will, beat it into fine powder and sieft it, then wash it in cold water three or four times till the filth be washed off from it, then boil it in clear water in a large pan or earthen vessel gently take off the scum, but the crust which is one the top after it hath covered the whole top, take off with a wooden scummer, spread it upon a brown paper, wash it again in cold water and dry it well, then grind it into fine powder, and keep it in a glass close stopped that it may touch no metal.   

Crocus Martis.  
Take of a bar of Iron or Steel which being heat very hot thrust into a great heap of brimstone, a basin being placed underneath with cold water in it, the Iron will run out like wax, which being separated from the brimstone, grind it to powder in an Iron mortar, put the powder in square earthen dishes which are not of above a finger's breadth in deepness, place them at the hot fire of a Reverberatory for three or four days, so will the substance be reddish and like a sponge, let the top be taken away with an Iron instrument, and the rest driven up by the fire till it may be brought into a very fine powder: Also you may prepare it by the fire of a Reverberatory without brimstone.   

Crocus Metallorum.  
Take of Antimony shining with long veins, salt-peter, of each equal parts, beat them into powder severally, then mix them together, and put them into a brass or iron mortar, than set fire to them by putting a coal in, which will burn with great noise, on the top place a tile or an iron plate at least three fingers breadth distant from the matter burning, when the noise is ceased, let the metal which will look of a deep red colour, be separated from that whitish crust at top, and kept for your use, being sweetened with clean distilled water.   

Flos Sulphuris.  
Take of yellow Brimstone, which when you have rubbed it if you hold it to your ear will make an noise, grind it with its equal part of 
* a strange name for terredamnata.  Colcolthar of Vitriol, viz. the residue of the distillation of the oil, put it in a long earthen pot, putting to it a glass head large enough, give fire to it in sand by degrees, and drive up the flower, stirring it with an hare's foot.  
It will be the better if you sublime it again with fresh Colcothar.   

Lapis infernalis septicus  
Take of the lie in which black Soap is boiled, burn it in a pan to a stone, but yet take heed all the moisture be not consumed and it wax too dry, when it is cold cut it in the form of dice and keep it close stopped.  
Otherwise,  
Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces, Shall Armoniac, Tartar calcined to whiteness, quick Lime of each three ounces, put to them being bruised, lie made of Figtree, or Spurge or Soap dissolve them in it, strain it and in a brass vessel boil it to the consumption of the moisture, keep the residence in a vessel close stopped.   

Lapis prunellae or Niter purged with Brimstone.  
Take of pure salt-peter a pound, put it in a crucible with coals round about it, let it not burn but run like metal, that being melted put in two ounces of flower of Brimstone in little bits as big as hazel nuts, which when it is consumed, pour out the Niter into a brass basin, and when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped that the air come not to it to dissolve it.   

Magisterium, Perlarum et Corallorum in quo etiam sales eorum continentur.  
Take of Pearls or Coral as much as you will, grind them into exceeding fine powder, then pour upon them so much Radical Vinegar, that it may overtop them three or four finger's breadth, digest them in ashes till they are dissolved, pouring off the old liquor and pouring in fresh till all of them be dissolved, filter the liquor through a brown paper, and putting a little oil of Tartar into it, the Pearls which were dissolved will fall down to the bottom in white powder, which is to be separated from the liquor and washed with clear water till it be sweet, at last washed with Cordial waters.  
Radical Vinegar is that which is distilled in sand with Bay salt.   

Mercurius Dulcis sublimatus.  
Take of Sublimatum prepared with salt & Vitriol, two ounces, 
* Quicksilver  crude Mercury purified with salt and Vinegar and ground upon a Marble an ounce and an half, let the Sublimatum be exactly mixed with the crude Mercury upon the same Marble, than put the powder into a phial of a foot in length, place the phial (being stopped well with Cotten or Bombast) up to the middle in sand, at first let the fire be gentle, then increased by degrees for six hours, that which ariseth up to the middle of the glass let it be taken, for that which ascends up to the top is of an exceeding poisonous nature, fit for nothing but 
* in horses the not in men.  ulcers, that which remains in the bottom is of no use, if that which is in the middle be sweet without any acrimony it is well made, if not you must sublime it again the second time, that so you may separate again what is at the top, and the oftener you do it the more perfect will your medicine be.   

Mercurius Dulcis precipitated.  
Take of crude Mercury distilled in a retort with Bay salt, or revived with common 
* I take that to be the native vermilion  Cinnabarum, one part, Aqua fortis (of two parts of Vitriol calcined and one part of salt Peter) two parts, dissolve them in a phial over warm ashes, make brine of rain water and Baysalt as much as the water will dissolve, filter it through a brown paper, into this brine (which must be strong enough to bear an egg) put the former solution of the Mercury, and forth with a white powder will fall down to the bottom, which is to be washed in clear water till it have no taste, then in cordial waters, so dried and kept in a glass.   

Mercurius vitae.  
Take of oil of Antimony before mentioned whilst it is in fat, put it into clear water, and forth with it will appear like milk, and a white powder will fall down to the bottom, which must be made sweet with much washing and kept for use.   

Sacharum Saturni.  
Take of red I ead as much as you will, which being put into a phyal put so much distilled Vinegar to it that it may overtop it the breadth of four fingers, digest it in a bath or in dung, twenty four hours, separate the sweet Vinegar and put in fresh, so long till no more sweetness can be drawn from it, mix all the liquors together in a stone vessel which will endure the fire, with a gentle fire exhale it so long away till there appear a skin at the top, than set the vessel in a Cellar, and take away the Crystalline congealation, then exhale it again till another skin be on the top, and do as before till there grows no more there, at last dissolve the sugar in distilled water, filter it & coagulate it, to a sweet crystalline sugar.   

Salt of Vitriol of a fleshy colour.  
Take of Vitriol so much as you will, put it in a wide Crucible and place the sire round about it, till it come into a powder of the colour of Violets, let this be put into a large glass viol into common water distilled, continually stirring it with a stick till the water which before was hot, be cold, so let it stand twenty four hours, filter the liquor and exhale it away till it be dry and of a fleshy colour.   

Salt of Vitriol white.  
Let white Vitriol be dissolved in distilled water, filtered and coagulated as the Sacharum Saturni was.   

Turbith Minerale.  
Take of crude Mercury, oil of Vitriol separated from the phlegm of each equal parts, put them into a phial, which being placed first of all in hot ashes, than fire being added by degrees, lest all the oil of Vitriol fly away, a white mass remaining in the bottom which being separated from that portion of crude Mercury, let it be put into rain water or else distilled water, and forth with it will come yellow, let it be often washed in warm water, till it be sweet, then in cordial waters, then dried and kept.   

Oleum Antimonij.  
Take of bright Antimony as much as you will, let it be beaten in very fine powder, and put into a large earthen vessel, stirring it over the fire with an iron instrument till it grow into clots, then beat it again, set it over the fire as before, repeat this till all the splendour of it be gone and it smoke no more, and the Stibium be like white ashes, let this powder be put upon a red hot plate; take a pound and an half of it, Borax half an ounce, or take three ounces of it and half a dram of Sal gem, put it into a Crucible which being covered with a Tile set in a very hot fire, till there flow a matter like water, put that into a basin and keep it.   

Tartarum Vitriolatum.  
Take of Liquor Tartar prepared four ounces, Oil of Vitriol well rectified two ounces, drop it by drops upon the Liquor of Tartar, so will there a white powder fall down to the bottom, let the moisture swimming above be taken away by a gentle heat, and the salt reserved for use.   

Nepenthes Opiatum.  
Take of tincture of Opium made with distilled Vinegar, then with spirit of Wine, extraction of Saffron made with spirit of Wine, of each an ounce, Salt of Pearls and Coral, of each half an ounce, Tincture of the specics of Diambra of each seven drachms, Ambergris one drachm, mix them together and with the heat of a bath make them into the form of pills.    

THE WAY OF MAKING EXTRACTS.  
seeing many extol the praises of Extracts up to the skies, 
o I am as far from the Colleges opinion in this particular as the Zenith is from the Nadir.  l'though WE by daily experience see they never answer to those effects, yet that He may not altogether be wanting to the desires of others, We chose rather to give this general way of making of them, than to stuff up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with 
* as thez have done already.  idle and needless Recepts, and out of vian glory impose then upon the unskilful.  
Take of the mass of any pill or powder what soever, as much as you will, infuse them or any of them in distilled water, 
a A blind order.  such as the Physician shall prescribe, a sufficient quantity, let them stand two days in a bath, or if the species be hard, three days, till the tincture have drawn out all the virtue, which if you would try, let the first liquor 
c i e. filter it.  run through a brown paper, and put in new liquor digesting it again, which having received its tincture, proceed as before, let the liquors so gathered be placed in Balnes Mariae, and the moisture evaporated, so will the matter remain in the bottom of the thickness of honey, which keep for your use; that the extract may remain moist a long time, put a little salt to it, viz two scruples or half a drachm to an ounce of extract.  
If you draw it with distilled water, put in a little oil of Vitriol or oil of Sulphur, so the extract will be the better drawn, and the pleasanter to the taste, for the liquor being thereby made sharp will sooner penetrate the hard substances of the species, and set a stop to the unbridled violence of a purging medicine.  
Cordial Extracts, Opiates and violent purges are usually drawn with spirit of Wine.   

THE WAY OF MAKING SALTS OF ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES.  
THE Salt which is made of plants is twofold, the one Volatle which is 〈◊〉 discussed by the violence of the fire (and this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, The other fixed, which endures the fire and is left in the 〈◊〉.  

The way to make Volatle or Essential Salt.  
Take a large quantity of any convenient plant which is fresh and full of juice, beat it in a wooden or stone mortar, and 〈◊〉 poured clear spring water to it, boil it till half be consumed, strain it and press it strongly, then boil the decoction to the thickness of Honey, than set it in a glass or stone 〈◊〉 glazed, in a cold place for eight days at the least, and you shall find a crystal line salt at the top of it, like Sal gem, take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it.  
In this manner is made salt of Wormwood, Carduns 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, and other bitter herbs very easily, but of 〈◊〉 herbs not 〈◊〉 much difficulty.   

The way of making Fixed or Elementary Salt.  
The method of making this consists in these four things, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉. 
* see the directions at the beginning of the Book.   
That this may be rightly done, 〈◊〉 of all the ashes of 〈◊〉 herbs you would make salt of, must be made white by 
a burning.  calcination, and herein have a care lest by too much burning either they go to glass or else the most subtle part fly out, which often chanceth in the calcining of scurvy grass and other plants of like nature.  
Then make a lie of the ashes by pouring to them clear water and hot, till all the saltness be drawn from them, filter the lie, and boil it by a gentle fire till all the water be evaporated away, and the salt left at the Bottom, to which a further cleansing is requisite, therefore dissolve it again in water and filter it and coagulate it again, for by often so doing, the salt will be cleansed from all its impurity and remain white and clean.  
Thus are salts prepared of herbs, fruits and trees of any kind, as also of parts of living creatures calcined and some stones, But this by the by.  
Amongst fixed salts these excel, salt of Wormwood, Time, Rosemary, Centaury the less, Mugwort, Carduus Benedictus Masterwort, Parsly, Best-harrow, Ash, dwarf Elder or Walwort, Guajacum, Box, Chamomel, St. John's wort, Succory, Sullondine, Scurvygrass, Bettony, Eupatorium, Bawm, Cetrach etc.    

PREPARATIONS OF CERTAIN MEDICINES VERY NECESSARY FOR APOTHECARIES.  

The burning of Brass.  
TAKE flakes of Brass, put them in an earthen vessel putting between every thin plate, either common Salt or Brimstone in powder, in this manner lay flake upon flake till the pot be full, then burn it sufficiently and sweeten it with warm water, it will be reddish if prepared with salt, black if with Brimstone.   

The way to wash Aloes  
Take of Aloes beaten into very fine powder as much as you will, put it into a glazed pot, and stir it up and down with a spatula in a 
* so much that it may swim above the Aloes the breadth of 2. or three fingers.  sufficient quantity of boiling hot water, so as the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water, pour off that and put in other warm water, do so till nothing but the dross is left at bottom, all the waters being added together, evaporate away the moisture, that the pure Aloes may be left in a mass at bottom.   

The preparation of Spodium.  
Take of choice Ivory cut in big pieces, burn them in an earthen pot in a furnace till they look white then being beaten into fine powder wash it in Rosewater, (let there be two pound of the water to one pound of the Ivory, dry it and wash it again thrice, the last time diffolve four drachms of Camphire in the Rose water, then having dried it, grind it fine upon a marble, and make it into troches to be kept for your use.  
In the same manner may you prepare Hartshorn.   

The Preparation of Bole Armenick.  
The preparation of this is performed by many with Rose water, by some with Vinegar, by others with Wine, The Role being in fine powder they wash so often till all the dross and sand be taken from it then they dry it in the air or in the sun, and keep it close covered.   

〈◊〉 bryony.  
Take of 〈◊〉 roots as many as you will, scrape them with a knife, and press out the juice strongly with a press, which being kept without motion in a vessel after a few hours white feceses like Starch will settle, the water swimming at top being poured off dry those Feceses, in glazed vessels.   

May Butler.  
Take of sresh Butter without any salt at all, about the middle of May or toward the latter end of them month, place it in the sun in a broad earthen vessel well glazed, that so it may be melted on every side, which being well melted when the sun is at the hottest strain it through a thick linen rag but press it not, then set it in the sand again, at last when it is white, you may keep it all the year.   

〈◊〉 of quick Lines  
The Lime being beaten let it be mixed with much sweet water, especially in the Dog days and much stirred, and when it is settled at the bottom, change the water and mix it again with other, do so seven or eight times, filtering it every time, at 〈◊〉 put Risen water to it, and so dry it and keep it for your use.   

The way to burn River Crabs.  
Take of River Crabs alive, stew them in a brass pan over a temperate fire so long, then having beaten them to powder keep them in a clean box in a dry place, so will they continue good a whole year.   

The common preparation of filings of Steel.  
Take of filings of Steel cleansed from the filth by a Loadstone, washing them in clean water, and drying them, then sprinkle them well, with sharp Wine Vinegar, stirring them well, dry them in the shadow often putting fresh Vinegar to them, so let it stand thirty days, afterwards beat it into very fine powder and keep it for your use.  
In such steel as is prepared by the fire with Brimstone, you must note that unless after the burning it retain a smatch of the taste of Vittiol, it hath lost all its opening saculty, and is good for nothing.   

The preparation of Coriander 〈◊〉.  
Steep Coriander seeds in sharp Vinegar for twenty sour hours, and then dry them, and so if you please you may prepare Cummin seeds also.   

The preparation of 〈◊〉.  
Take of wild Cucumbers 〈◊〉 ripe as many as you will, cut them 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the juice gently with your 〈◊〉 singers, 〈◊〉 which let run through a very fine sieve, then let it stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 part be settled at the bottom, 〈◊〉 off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 into another earthen glazed vesel, ser the 〈◊〉 at the bottom, being covered with a linen cloth, in the son till it be dry, then keep it for your use.   

The preparation of Spurge roots.  
Infuse the bark of spurge roots, being well cleansed, in sharp wine Vinegar, then dry them and keep them for your use.  
In the same manner is prepared the leaves of Laurel, Merereon, or spurge olive, and the fruit of Thymelaea.   

The preparation of Euphorbium.  
Take of Euphorbium beaten into very fine powder, grind it upon a stone with oil of sweet Almonds till it be like an unguent then let it be put into a Quince or Citron made hollow, rolled up in past and baked in an oven, keep the Euphorbium so prepared in a glass well stopped.   

The manner of making Gersa or Cerussa Serpentaria.  
Take of Aron roots in the beginning of the spring, before their strength run up to leaves, as many as you will, wash them & cleanse them from the outward bark, then being beat in a stone mortar, and the juice pressed through a sieve, which being covered with a linen cloth, let it be dried in the sun afterward washed in Rose water, dried again and kept for your use.   

The preparation of black Hellebore.  
Take of black Hellebore roots as we have them with us, the woody pith being taken away, steep them in juice of Quinces three days, with a moderate heat, then dry them and keep them.   

The preparation of Goat's blood.  
Take a Goat of a middle age, feed him a month with burnet, Smallage, Parsley, Lovage, Mallows and such like things, then take the blood which flows out of his Arteries being opened, let it settle, then pour the water from it, and dry the blood in a furnace; the Goat must be killed towards the latter end of the summer about the Dog days.   

The way to burn Swallows.  
Let young Swallows be so killed that the blood may run upon their wings, then sprinkle them with a little salt, and burn them in an earthen vessel well glazed, and keep the Ashes for your use.  
After the same manner are burnt Hedgehogs, Toads, and Frogs, but without salt.   

The preparation of Gum Lacca.  
Take of Gum Lacca which is foul, (for it were labour in vain to wash what is clean) bruise it a little, and boil it in water (in which Schaenanth and Birthwort of each equal parts have been boiled) till the purer part swims at top and the dross is sunk to the bottom, evaporate away the moisture from that purer part, either in the sun or in a bath, and so keep it for your use.   

The preparation of Lapis Lazuli.  
Take of Lapis Lazuli finely bruised, and wash it in so many waters till the water remain clear after washing, and this preparation is enough, when you put it in pills, but when you use it in Confectio Alkermes, it must first be burnt.   

The preparation of Earth worms.  
Take of Earth worms cut and cleansed, as many as you will, wash them so often in Wine till they are cleansed from their filth, then dry them and keep them for your use.   

The common way of preparing Pearls.  
Beat Pearls into very fine powder in an Iron or Steel mortar putting to them a little Rose water, that so the more subtle parts may not fly àway.  
In like manner is Coral and other precious stones prepared.   

The preparation of Sows or Woodlice.  
Take of Sows as many as you will, wash them in white Wine, than put them into a new glazed pot, dry them in a furnace that so they may be 〈◊〉 into powder.   

The way to make Oesipus.  
Take of wool cut off from the neck, ribs, and under the pits of the forelegs of a Sheep not washed, but well wearied, wash it in warm water so long till it have left all its 〈◊〉 in the water. then press it out and lay it by, let that fat and foul water be poured from on high out of one vessel into another, a long time 〈◊〉 it be frothy, then let the froth settle and take off the fat that swims on the top, then pour the water to and fro again, till neither more fat nor froth appears, then wath the froth with the fat, in clear water, till it be cleansed from the dross and will not bite your tongue if you touch it with it, then keep it in a thick earthen clean pot, in a cold place.   

Washed lead. Dioscorides.  
I 〈◊〉 water being put in a leaden mortar be stirred up and down with a leaden pestle, painfully till it look black and grow thick like lime, then strain it through a linen cloth, putting 〈◊〉 to it, that so whatsoever is dissolved may pass through when it is settled pour off that water and wash it in other 〈◊〉 water till no blackness remain in it, at last make it up into balls to be kept for your use.   

Furnt Led. Dioscorides.  
Take very thin plates of lead put them in an earthen pot, putting 〈◊〉 one between every plate so pile them up till the pot be 〈◊〉 then set 〈◊〉 in the fire, 〈◊〉 the lead up and down till it be brought into ashes, than shut your 〈◊〉 (lest the steem either of the Brimstone or of the lead do you mischief) take it off from the fire, then wash it as you wash Ceruse.   

Powder of raw lead. Fernelius.  
Take very thin plates of Lead and cut them very small, then steep them three 〈◊〉 in sharp Vinegar, changing the Vinegar every day, then dry them by the fire but burn them not, so beat them into a fine powder.   

The preparation of Fox lungs.  
Take of Fox lungs being fresh the Aspera Arteria being taken away, wash them diligently with white Wine, wherein Hyssop and Scabious have been boiled, dry it gently in an oven but burn it not, then lay it up wrapped in Wormwood, Horehound or Hyssop dried.   

Simple preparation of Scammony.  
Take of Scammony in fine powder, a pound, juice of Quinces eight ounces, mix them together and having stood in infusion twenty four hours, evaporate away the juice.  
2. Or take of Scammony in powder and put it in a Quince the core being taken out, and so roast it in the ashes or in an oven, then take out the Scammony and keep it for your use.  
Or 3. Take four ounces of Scammony, put it in a glass viol, cover it over with juice of Quinces the breadth of three fingers, let it stand in a bath till it look like milk, than put out that and put in other juice, do so till it look no longer white, let this liquor stand and settle, and dry the settle in the sun.  
A. The College here set down a way to prepare Squils for troches, which they say is not unlike the former, and comparing them together I find them as like as a Permain is like a Apple, therefore I pass it.   

The way to boil Turpentine.  
Take a pound of Venice Turpentine, to which add a great quantity of water, (to wit twenty four pound) in which let it be boiled so long, till it lose its smell, and be as hard as Rozin, brittle as glass, and white.   

The preparation of Tutty.  
Take of Tutty heat red hot three times in a crucible, and as often quenched in Rose water, then grind it very small and put it in a clean linen cloth, swing it up and down this way and that way in a vessel full of clear water, that the fine and profitable part thereof may come through into the water, and the gross and filthy part remain still in the cloth, let it settle and then pour off the water, let this operation be repeated till nothing worth any thing be left in the cloth.    

A CONCLUSION.  
THus Courteous Reader have I gone through the whole Work, I am not conscious to myself that I have justly given offence to any by translating this Work, If any take offence, it is to be shrewdly suspected it ariseth from self interests. Once more let me advise the ignorant not to be too busy with what they have no skill in, for as Physick (as the never dying Hypocrates truly saith) was never ordained for disorderly and disobedient persons, so was the administration of it never ordained for dunces, therefore let every one that administers physic, seriously consider the great account must be made another day before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Angels, and do nothing rashly but upon serious consideration, as he desires it should far well with him when the Lord comes to make inquisition for blood.  
Pure pity to the Commonalty of England (I assure you) was the motive, the prevailing argument that set my brain and pen a work about this subject, many of whom to my knowledge have perished either for want of money to fee a Physician, or want of knowledge of a remedy happily growing in their garden, and if any be angry, because I have stripped the Daw out of his borrowed feathers, I am not careful, all ingenuous people that love their country will judge like themselves, of whom I rather be deservedly reproved, then of others ignorantly commended.    
FINIS.  

AN EXACT ALPHABETICAL TABLE TO THE ENGLISH NAMES IN THE CATALOGUE of SIMPLES.  

ROOTS of  

A  ALKANET. Page 3 Angelica 3 Anthora 3 Asarabacca 4 Asphodel male & female. 4 Avens. 6 Artichokes. 8  

B  Bay-tree. 12 Bearsbreech. 3 Birthwort, long, 3 Round. 4 Brank-Ursine 3 Beets. 5 Bistort. 3 borage. 5 Bur-Burdock. 5 Briony white & black. 5 Bugloss. 5 Brakes. 10 Butter-burr. 14 Bruscus. 17 Butchers-broom. 17  

C  Calamus Aromaticus 6 Cappers 8 Carrots 8 Chameleon white & black 6 Chelondine greater 6 Lesser 7 China 7 Coleworts 6 Centaury 6 Costus 7 Corralwort 8 Cucumbers wild 8 Cyperus 8 〈◊〉 14 Cinkfoyl 14 Canterbury or Coventry bells 19  

D  Danewort 9 〈◊〉 8 Dictamni Dittany 8 Dragons 9 Dwarf Elder 9 Dropwort 11  

E  Elicampane 10 Endive 10 Eringo 10  

F  Fearn 10 Fennel 11 〈◊〉 11 Flower-de-luce 12 Fuller's thistle 12 Figwort 18  

G  Garlic 3 Galanga 11 Gentian 11 Grass 12 Ginger 20 Gladon stinking 19  

H  Hartwort 18 Hermodactils 12 Hellebore white 9 black 10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hore strange 15 Hogs fennel 15  

I  Jacinth 12  

K  Knee holly 17  

L  Lady's thisles 19 Liquoris 11 Lilies white 13 Lovage 13 Leeks 16  

M  Marshmallows 3 Meadow Saffron 7 Masterwort 12 Mallows 13 Mandragues 13 Mechoacan 13 Mezereon 13 Mulberry 13 Monks Rhubarb 17 Meadsweet 20  

O  Onions 6 Orris 12  

P  Parsnips 14 Patience 17 Petasitis 14 Peony 15 Pellitory of Spain 16 Plantain 15 Polypodium 15  

R  Reeds 4 Restharrow 14 Rhapontick 16 Rhubarb 17 Rhadishes 17 Rose-root 17  

S  Sarsaparilla 17 Satyrion 18 Saxifrage white 18 Scabious 18 〈◊〉 18 Set-wall 20 Seseli 18 Skirrets 18 Showbread 4 Swallow-wort 4 Asparagus 4 Snakeweed 5 Sullendine 7 Succory 7 Spurge 10 Sorrel 12 Sharp pointed-Dock 12 Spignel 13 Spurge-Olive 13 Spicknard 13 Sulphur wort 16 solomon's seal 16  

T  Tansy 19 Teazles 12 Toothwort 8 Turmerick 8 Tormentil 19 Throatwort 19 Toadstools 19 Tripolium 19 Turbith 19  

V  Valerian white and red 5 Viper's bugloss 9 Valerian great and small 15 Viper's grass 18 Victorialis 20  

W  Water flag, or flower-de-luce 3 Wake-Robin 4 Walwort 9 Waterlillies 14 Widdow-wail 15  

Z  Zedoary 20   

BARKS of  

A  Ash-tree 21  

B  Barberries 21 Beans 21  

C  Caffialignea 21 Chestnuts 21 Cinnamon 21 Citrons 21 Cork 23  

E  Elder 23 Elm 23  

H  Hazel 20  

L  Lemmons 21 Linetree 23  

M  Mace 22  

O  Oak 23 Oranges 21  

P  Parsly roots 23 Pine-nuts 23 Pomegranate 22  

S  Smallage roots 20  

T  Tamaris 23  

W  Walnut 22   

WOODS.  

B  Brazil 24 Cypress 24 Ebeny 24 Guajacum 24 Juniper 24 Nephriticum 24 Rhodium 24 Rose-wood 23 Sanders, red white and yellow. 24 Sassafras 24 Tamaris 24 Wood of Alocs' 23   

HERBS.  

A  Adder's tongue 48 Agrimony 〈◊〉 Agnus Castus 26 Alkanet 25 Angelica 27 Asarabacca 28 Arrach 28 Alecost 29 Avens 29. 33 Artichokes 35 Ashtree leaves 38 Alehoof 39 alexander's 40 Arsemart 41  

B  Bay-tree 43 Bawm 45 Bazil 48 Bearsbreech 25 Bastard-Saffron 29 Beets 29 Burdock 29 Bettony 30 Blites 30 borage 30 Briony 31 Bugloss 31 Bugle 31 Boxtree 31 Brook lime 〈◊〉 Buckhorn Plantain 35 Blue-bottle 36 Burstwort 37 Broom 39 Butter-flowers 50 Bruisewort 52 Bindweed 53 Cabbages 33 Calamint 31 Carduus Benedictus 32 Cassidony 54 Catmints 33 Centaury 33 Cetrach 34 Chamomel 34 Chelondine 34 Chervil 34 Chickweed 26 Clevers 27 Columbines 28 Costmary 29 Corallina 33 Coleworts 33 Chamepitis 34 Comfry 35 Cottenweed 36 Cudweed 36 Crosswort 36 Cypress tree 36 Cranebill 39 Cowslips 40 Clary 41 Cinkfoyl 48 Crowfoot 50 〈◊〉 hay 52 Coltsfoot 56  

D  Dandelion 55 Daisies 30 Dill 27 〈◊〉 thistle 29 Dictamni Dittany 36 Dwarf Elder 37 Dodder 37 Dovesfoot 39 Double-tongue 40 Dittander 43 Duckmeat 43 Docks 51 Devils bit 54  

E  Elicampane 37 Epithimum 37 Eyebright 38  

F  Fennel 38 Fumitory 38 Featherfew 45 Fleabane 50 Figwort 52 Flixweed 53  

G  Garlic 26 Goosegrass 27 Good-Henry 30 Groundsel 32 Germander 34 Groundpine 34 Golden rod 35 Goats rue 39 Gold knobs 50  

H  Herb twopences 47 Hartstongue 43 Hearts ease 55 Housleek 29 Honey suckles 32 Herb bennet 33 Horsetail 33 Hemlock 35 Houndstongue 36 Hedge Hyssop 39 Horsetongue 40 Henbane 41 Hyssop 41 Herb Maslich 45 Hops 44 Horehound 44 Hig taper 50  

I  Indian leaf 38 Ivy 39  

K  King Cob 50 Knapweed 54 Knotgrass 34  

L  Lady mantle 26 Lluellin 30 Lady's thistle 32 Larks heels 35 Lavender Cotton 36 Lady's Bedstraw 39 Liverwort 39 Laurel of Alexandria 42 Lavender 42 Laurel 42 Lettuce 42 Lovage 43 Lunguewort 50  

M  Marygolds 32 Maiden hair 25 Maudlin 26 Marshmallows 26 Marjorum 27 Mouseare 28 〈◊〉 28 Moschata 39 Masterwort 44 Mastic tree 43 Mallows 44 Mandrakes 44 Mililot 45 Mints 45 Mercury 46 Mezereon 46 Moss 46 Myrtle-tree 46 Moneywort 47 Mother of Time 53 Mullin 56  

N  Navel wort 56 Nep 33 Nettles 57 Nightshade 53  

O  Oak of Jerusalem 30 Ox eye 31 Orpine 36 Ontberry 40 Origany. 〈◊〉 48  

P  Pansies 55 Patience 40 Paul's bettony 30 Pimpernel 27 Perewinkle 35 Primroses 40 Pellitory of the wall 40 Pepparwort 43 Penyroyal 49 Peach leaves 49 Plantain 49 Poppies 48 Poley mountin 49 Purslain 49  

R  Rocket 38 Rupture wort 37 Rosemary 50 Roses 51 Rue 51  

S  Sampire 36 Sarazens Confound 35 Sage 51 Sanicle 52 Savin 51 Savory 52 Saxifrage 52 Schoenanth 52 Southernwood 25 Sorrel 25 Smallage 27 Silverweed 28 Showbread 28 Sengreen 29 Shepherds purse 31 Spleenwort 34 Sullondine 34 Succory 35 Strawberry leaves 38 Stinking groundpine 40 St. John's wort 41 Sciatica cresses 42 Starwort 42 Sharewort 42 Sea 〈◊〉 43 Sea 〈◊〉 43 Sweet trefoil 43 Stachys 45 Selfeheal 49 Sicklewort 49 Sopewort 52 Scordium 52 Senna 53 Sowthistles 53 Spinach 54 Stoechas 54 Spurge 55 Swallow wort 56  

T  Tamaris 55 Tansy 54 Teazles 37 Truelove 46 Toungblade 40 Toad flax 43 Treacle mustard 46 Tobacco 46 Turnips 50 Time 55 Trefoyl 55  

V  Vervain mallows 26 Vipers bugloss 37 Vervain 56 Violet leaves 56 Vine leaves 56  

W  Watercresses 46 Walwort 〈◊〉 Wormwood 25 Woodsorrel 26 Woodroofe 27 Wild Tansy 28 Windflower 40 Woad 42 Widow wail 46 Wintergreen 50 Willow leaves 51  

Y  Yarrow 46   

FLOWERS of  

B  Bawm 58 Balauffins 59 borage 57 Bugloss 57 Beans 59 Broom 59  

C  Centaury 59 Chamomel 57 Clovegilliflowers 58 Cowslips 59  

E  Elder flowers 59  

H  Hops 58 Honey suckles 58  

L  Lavender flowers 58  

M  Mallows 58  

P  Peach tree 59  

R  Rosemary 58 Roses 〈◊〉 58  

S  Saffron 58 Stoechas 57 Schaenanth 58 Succory 58  

W  Walflowers 58 Water Lilies 59 Winter Gillyflowers 58   

FRUITS, BUDS.  

A  Apricocks 61  

B  Bayberries 61 Barberries 61 Bitter Almonds 61  

C  Capers 60 Cassia fistula 62 Checkers 61 Cherries 61 Cloves 60 Cucumbers 60 Cubebs 61 Currants English 61  

D  Dates 60 Figs 59 Galls 60  

M  Melones 61 Medlars 61 Myrobalans: 62 Nutmegs 60  

O  Olives 61  

P  Pepper 60 Pears 60 Plums 60 Pinenuts 60 Pompions 61 Prunes 62  

Q  Quinces 60  

R  Raisins 60  

S  Sebestens 60 Services 61 Strawberries 62  

T  Tamarinds 62  

W  Walnuts 60 Winter cherries 62   

SEEDS of  

A  Annis 63 Ash-tree 65  

B  Bazil 63 Bishopsweed 63 Broom 65  

C  Cardamons 63 Carrots 63 Coriander 62 Cummin 63 Cich pease 64 Citrons 65  

D  Dill 63  

F  Fenugreek 62 Fennel 63 French barley 64 Four greater cold seeds 64  

G  Gromwel 63  

L  Linseed 63 Lupins 63 Lettuce 64  

M  Mallows 64 Mustard seed 64  

N  Nettles 63 Nigella 64  

P  Peony 65 Poppy 64 Purslain 64  

R  Rocket 63 Rue 64  

S  Smallage 63 Stavesager 64 Sorrel 64 Succory 64  

W  Watercresses 64 White Saxifrage 64 Worm seed 65   

GUMS, ROZINS.  

A  Aloes 65 〈◊〉 65 Ammoniacum 67  

B  〈◊〉 66 Benzoin 65  

C  Camphire 67  

D  Diagridium 66  

E  〈◊〉 〈◊〉  

F  Frankincense ibid.  

G  Galbanum ibid.  

L  Laudanum 65  

M  Manna ibid. 〈◊〉 66 〈◊〉 ibid.  

O  Olibannm ibid. Opopanax ibid.  

S  Sanguis 〈◊〉 65 〈◊〉 66 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid.  

T  Traganth 〈◊〉 Turpentine ibid.   

JUICES of  
Citrons 67 Lemons 67 Liquoris 67 Sugar 67   

Of PLANTS.  
Agrick 68 Misleto of the Oak 68   

LIVING CREATURES.  
Crábfish 69 〈◊〉 68 Eels 69 〈◊〉 ibid. Hedge. sparrows ibid. Oylters ibid. Pigeons ibid. Sows 68 Swallows 69 Vipers 68 Wood-lice ibid.   

PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES.  
Bear's grease 71 Bone in a Stag's heart 71 Bones of a Hare's forehead ibid. Brain of Sparrows 69 Brain of Hares ibid. Cat's head 70 Crabs eyes ibid. Cock's stones ibid. Castorium ibid. Ducks liver ibid. Ducks grease 71 Elks claws ibid. Fox lungs 70 Frogs liver ibid. Fox grease 71 Goats bladder 70 Goose grease 71 Goats suet ibid. Hartshorn 70 Honey 73 Ivory 70 Kites head ibid. Man's skull 71 Mans fat ibid. Milk ibid. Os triquetrum 71 Stags pisle 70 Sheep's bladder ibid. Raw silk 72 Unicorns horn 70 Wax 72 Whey ibid.   

BELONGING TO THE SEA.  
Amber 73 Ambergris ibid. Foam of the Sea ibid. Pearls ibid. Red Coral ibid. Sea-sand ibid. Spermacati 72  

METALS. STONES.  AErites 76 Alum 74 Amethyst 75 Bezoar ibid. Carbuncle ibid. Cocks-stone ibid. Diamond ibid. Emerald 74 Granate 75 Gold 73 Jacinth 74 Jasper 76 jazuli ibid. Led 74 Litharge ibid. 〈◊〉 75 Pompholix 74 Ruby 75 Saphir 74 Swallows stone 76 Toadstone 75 Topas ibid.  
I quoted not the latin 〈◊〉 because they lie 〈◊〉 in the Treatise.    

A CATALOGVE OF THE COMPOUNDS IN THE ORDER THEY ARE set down in every CLASSES.  

COMPOUND WATERS.  THE common way of making Waters 80 Wormwood water ibid. Angelica water 81 Langius his Bezoar water ibid. Mathiolus his bezoar water 82 Capon water 83 Cinnamon water ibid. Mathiolus his Cinnamon water 84 Cinnamon water by infusion ibid. Aqua Caelestis 85 A cordial water 86 Aqua cordialis frigida Saxonia ibid. Langius his Antepileptical water 87 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 88 Imperial water 〈◊〉 Pawm water 89 Aqua Mariae ibid. Aqua 〈◊〉 90 Rosa Solis ibid. Dr. Stephen's water ibid. Aqua Protheriacalis 91 Aqua Theriacalis by infusion ibid. Aqua Theriacalis distilled 92 Ordinary Aqua vitae ibid. Aqua vitae compound 93 Spirit of 〈◊〉 ibid. Usquebach ibid. Fallopius his Alum water 94  

PHYSICAL WINES.  The common way of making Wines 64 Wormwood wine ibid. Galen's wine of Squils' 95  

PHYSICAL VINEGERS.  The common way of making Vinegers. 97 Distilled Vinegar 97 Vinegar of Roses ibid. Treacle Vinegar 98 Vinegar of Squils' ibid.  

DECOCTIONS.  A Carminative decoction 99 The common decoction for Clysters 100 A common decoctiom for a medicine 100 A decoction of Epithimum ibid. A decoction of flowers and fruits 101 A pectoral decoction ibid. A decoction of Senna ibid. Lac Virgineum 102 A drink for wounded men ib.  

SYRUPS.  Syrup of Vinegar London 103 Syrup of Vinegar Mesue ib. Syrup of Vinegar compound ib. Syrup of the juice of Citrons 104 Syrup of Bettony 105 Syrupus Bizantinus ib. Syrup of Quinces 106 Syrup of fumitory ib. Syrup of 〈◊〉 107 Syrup of Coltsfoot ibid. Julep of Alexandria 108 Julep of Roses ibid. Oxysaccharum simplex ib. Syrup of Maiden hair ib. Syrup of Cinnamon 109 Syrup of Coral ibid. Syrup of Clovegilliflowers. 110 Syrup of Citron pills 111 Syrup of water Lilies ib. Syrup of Meconium 112 Syrup of Poppies ibid. Syrup of Corn roses 113 Syrup of Peach flowers ib. Syrup of dried Roses ib. Syrup of Roses solutive 114 Syrup of Roses with Agrick ibid. Syrup of Roses with Hellebore 115 Syrup of Violets ibid.  

COMPOUND SYRUPS.  Syrup of Wormwood 116 Syrup of Marshmallows ib. Syrup of Mugwort 117 Syrupus Augustanus, or Syrup of Rhubarb 118 Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb 119 Syrupus Diasereos ibid. Syrup of Epithimum 120 Syrup of Maudlin 121 Syrup of Liquoris 122 Syrup of 〈◊〉 122 Syrup of Jujubes' 122 Syrup of Camepiys 123 A Magisterial syrup against Melancholy 124 Syrup of Bawm 125 Syrup of Mints ibid. Syrup of Myrtles 126 Syrup of Apples ibid. Syrupus de pomis Regis Saporis ib. Syrup of Horehound 127 Syrup of Rhadishes ib. Syrup of the 5. opening roots 128 Syrup of Scabious 128 Syrup of Harts-tongue 129 Syrup of 〈◊〉 129 Syrup of Comfry 130 A Cordial julep 130  

SYRUPS MADE WITH HONEY.  〈◊〉 131 Diacodium 131 Diamoron 131 Honey of Rosemary flowers. 131 Honey of Mercury 132 Honey of Raisins 132 Honey of Roses 132 Oxymel simple 133 Oximel compound 133 Oximel Heleborated 133 Oximel Julianizans 134 Oximel of Squils' 135 Honey of Anacardium ib. Honey of Emblicks 136  

ROB.  The meaning of the word 136 Simple Rob ibid. Rob of Barberries 137 Rob of Cornels ib. Rob of Quinces ib. Rob of English Currants 138 Juice of Sloes ibid. Juice of Liquoris ibid. Miva of Quinces ibid.  

lohoch's.  The signification of the word 139 Lohoch of Colworts ibid. Lohoch of Poppies ib. Lohoch of Raisins 140 Lohoch of Pinenuts ibid. Lohoch of Fox lungs 141 Lohoch Sanum & expertum ibid. Eclegma of Squills 142  

PRESERVES.  The way to make them 143  

CONSERVES  The way to make them 144 Lozenges of Poppies 145 Manus Christi 146 Penidies ibid. Confection of Frankincense. 147 Sugar of Roses ibid.  

POWDERS.  Aromaticum Cariophylatum. 148 Aromaticum Rosatum. 149 Cordial powder 150 A powder for such as are bruised by falls 151 Species cordiales temperatae ib. Diacalaminthes' Simplex ib. Compositum 152 〈◊〉 ib. Species Elect. Diacymini 152 Species Elect Diagalaxgae 153 Species Elect. de Gemmis 153 〈◊〉 Simplex 154 Dialacca 155 Diamargariton 155 〈◊〉 157 Diamoscu 157 Dianthon 158 Dia penidion 158 Diarrhodon Abbatis 159 Diaspoliticum ibid. Diatragac 〈◊〉 ibid. Diatrion Pipereon 160 Diatrion Santalon ibid. Pulvis Haly ibid. Laetificans 161 Species Confectionis Liberantis. 161 〈◊〉 162 Pulvis Saxonicus ibid. A powder against the bitings of mad dogs. 163 Pleres Arconticon ib. A preservative powder against the pestilence 164 Rosata Novella ibid. A powder to stop blood ibid. A powder for scabs 165 Holland powder ibid. Pulvis Sanctus ibid. Pulvis Sennae 166 Diaturbith ibid. A powder for the worms 167  

ELECTUARIES.  Electuarium Resumptivum, 167 Confectio Alkermes 168 Electuary of Bayberries 169 Athanasia Mithridatis ibid. Diacapparis ibid. Diacinnamomu 170 Diacorrallion ibid. Diacorum 171 Elect. e scorri ferri ibid. Diacydeniun. 172 Confectio de Hyacyntho 173 Confectio Humain ibid. Antiditum Haemagogum 174 〈◊〉 Salomonis ibid. Diasatyrium 175 Diaspermaton 176 A pectorial Electuary ibid. Miclets ibid. Theriaca 〈◊〉 177 Mathiolus his great Antidote against poison and pestilence ibid. Diascordium 179 Mithridate ibid. Philonium Persicum 180 Philonium Romanum 181 Electuarium de Ovo ibid. Requies 182 Venice Treacle 183 London Treacle 184 Benedicta Laxativa. ibid. Caryocostinum 185 Cassia extracted for Clysters. ibid. Electuarium Amarum ibid. Diacassia with Manna 186 Cassia extracted without the leaves of Senna ibid. — With the leaves of Senna 107 Diacarthamum ibid. Diaphoenicon 188 Diaprunum lenitive ibid. — solutive 189 Diacatholicon ibid. Diacrocuma 190 Electuarium de Citro ibid. Electuarium Elescoph ibid. Confectio Hamech 191 Indum minus 192 Lenitive Electuary ibid. Elect. Passulatum ibid. Electuary of the juice of Roses 193 〈◊〉 Reginae 193 Hicra picra simplex. 194 Hiera with Agrick ibid. Hiera Logodii 195 Hierapachii ibid. 〈◊〉 196  

PILLS.  Pilulae Alephanginae 197 〈◊〉 Rosata 198 Pills of washed Aloes ibid. Pilulae Assaireth ibid. Pills of Bdellium 199 Pills of Eupatorium ibid. Pills of Hiera with Agrick 200 Pilulae Imperialis ibid. Mastich pills ibid. Pestilential pills ibid. Stomach pills 201 Pilulae de Succino ibid. Pills of Rhubarb ibid. Pilulae ex tribus 202 Agregative pills ibid. Pills of Agrick ibid. Pilulae Arabicae 203 Pilulae Artbriticae ib. Pilulae Auriae 204 Pilulae Cochiae ib. Pilulae foetidae 205 Pills of Fumitory 205 Pills of Hermodactils ib. Pilulae Indae 206 Pills of Lapis Lazuli ib. Pilulae Lucis majores ib. Pills of Mechoacan 207 Pilulae rudii ibid. Pilulae sine quibus 208 Pills of Spurge ibid. Pills of Euphorbium ib. Pilulae Turpeti Auriae 239 Pilulae de Cynoglosso ibid. Laudanum ib. Pilulae scribonii 240 Pills of Styrax ib.  

TROCHES.  Troches of Wormwood 241 Trochisci Alexiterii 242 Trochisci Aliptae moschatae ib. Troches of Annis seeds ib. Trochisei Bechici albi 243 nigri ibid. Troches of Barberries ib. Troches of Camphire 244 Troches of Capers ibid. Trochisci Cypheos ibid. Trochisci diarhodon 245 Trochisci de 〈◊〉 ibid. Troch sci de Gallia Moschata ib. Trochisci Gordonii 246 Trochisci Hedichroi ib. Trochisci Hysterici 247 Trochisci de Lacca ib. Troches of Terra Lemnia ib. Troches of Myrrh 248 Trochisci Polyidae ibid. Pastilli Andronis ibid. Trochisci Musae 249 Crocomagma Damocrites ib. Troches of wood of Aloes ibid. Trochisci Ramich ibid. Troches of Roses 250 Troches of Squills ibid. Troches of Spodium 251 Troches of Sanders ibid. Troches of Viper's ib. Trochisci Viticis 252 Trochisci albi ibid. Troches of Wintercherries. ibid. Trochisci de Carabe 253 Trochisci Diacorrallien ibid. Trochisci Diaspermaton ib. Haemoptoici pastilli ib. Sief de Plumbo 254 Trochisci de succino ibid. Sief of Frankincense ib. Agrick trochiscated ib. Troches of Agrick ib. Trochisci Alhandal 255 Troches of Rhubarb ib. Troches of Violet's ib.  

OILS.  The way to make oils by expression 256 The way to make simple oils by 〈◊〉 258  

COMPOUND OILS  Oleum 〈◊〉 263 Oil of Capers 264 Oil of Castorium ibid. Oleum 〈◊〉 ibid. Oleum 〈◊〉 265 Oil of Euphorbium ibid. Oil of Exeter 266 Oil of Swallows ibid. Oil of St. John's wort ibid. Oil of Orris. 267 Oil of Margerum ibid. Oil of Mandrakes 168 Oleum 〈◊〉 ibid. Nard Cyl 269 Oleum 〈◊〉 ibid. Oil of Tobacco 270 Oil of Peppar ibid. 〈◊〉 n 〈◊〉 ibid. Oil of Foxes 271  

OINTMENTS.  Vnguentum album 271 Vnguentum 〈◊〉 272 Vnguentum Anodinum ibid. Livimentum Arcei ibid. Vnguentum Aureum 273 〈◊〉 ibid. Ointment of Bdellium ibid. Vnguentum de Calce 274 Ointment of Marshmallows. ibid. Vnguentum enulatum 275 Vnguentum diapompholigos. ib. Vnguentum refrigerans 276 Vnguentum de minio ibid. Ointment of Tobacco ibid. Nutritum 277 Vnguentum 〈◊〉 278 Placentinus his Lineament ib. Ointment of Lead ib. Pomatum 279 Vnguentum Potabile. 179 An Ointment against the Itch ibid. Ointment of Roses 280 Vnguentum 〈◊〉 rubr. ib. Ointment of Tutty ib. A binding Ointment 281 Vnguentum Agrippae ib. Vnguentum de Alabasiro 282 Vnguentum Apostolorum ib. Vnguentum 〈◊〉 ib. Vnguentum ex succis aperitivis. 283 Vnguentum de Artanita 284 Vnguentum 〈◊〉 ib. Vnguentum Citrinum 285 Vnguentum Comitissae. ib. Vnguentum ad Hemorrhoidas. 286 Ointment of Bays 287 Vnguentum Martiatum ib. 〈◊〉 ex Apio. 288 Vnguentum 〈◊〉 288 Vnguentum Resinum 289 Vnguentum Nervinum ib. Vnguentum Pectorale ib. Vnguentum Populneum 290 Vnguentum Resumptivum ib Vnguentum Splenicum 291 〈◊〉 Scabiosa ib. tap sivalentia 292 Tapsimel 293 A stomach Ointment 293 An ointment for the Worms 293  

PLASTERS.  A plaster of Ammoniacum 294 Album castum de Cerussa 295 A plaster of Bayberries ibid. Emplastrum Barbarum magnum ibid. A plaster of Bettony 296 Emplastrum 〈◊〉 ibid. Emplastrum Catagmaticum 297 Emplastrum Cephalicum 298 Emplastrum Ceroma ib. A plaster of Hemlock with Ammoniacum 299 Emplastrum de crusta panis ib. Emplastrum de Cymino ib. Diachylon simplex 300 Diachylon magnum ib. — cum gummi 301 A plaster of Mussilages ib. Diapalma ib. Emplastrum 〈◊〉 302 Emplastrum Divinum ib. 〈◊〉 degum Flenni 303 Emplastrum gratia Dei ib. Emplastrum Gryseum 304 Emplastrum ad 〈◊〉 304 Emplastrum 〈◊〉 305 A plaster of Bettony ib. A plaster of Mastic 306 A plaster of Mililot ib. A plaster of red Lead 307 Emplastrum Isis ib. A plaster of Mastic 303 Emplastrum Metroproptoticon. 308 Emplastrum nigrum 309 Emplastrum nervinum ib. Oxycroccum 310 Emplastrum de Ranis 311 Emplastrum 〈◊〉 ib. 〈◊〉 312 Empl. Steph iniaion ibid. Empl. sine pari ibid. Sticticum Paracelsus 313 A plaster for the stomach ib.  

CERECLOATHS.  A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum 314 A Cerecloath of Galbanum ibid. Ceratum Oesipatum 314 Ceratum Santalinum 315 Ceratum stomachicum ib. Flower of ointments ib.  

CHEMICAL OILS.  The way to make Chemical oil of herbs 317 Of Seeds 318 Of Berries 319 Of Spices ibid. Of Barks 320 Of Woods ibid. Of things to be melted ibid. Of Gums and Rozins 321 Of Minerals and stones 323 Oil of Salt 324 Oil of Amber ibid. Oil of Sulphur 325 Oil of Tartar 326 Oil of Vitriol 327 Quintessence of Honey 327 Aqua sortis ibid.  

CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS.  Steel prepared 328 〈◊〉 martis ibid. Cremor tartar ibid. Crocus metallorum 329 Flower of Brimstone ibid. Lapis infernalis ibid. Lapis prunella 330 Magisterium of Pearl and Coral ibid. Mercurius Dulcis ibid. Mercurius vitae 331 Sacharum Saturni ibid. Salt of Vitriol 332 〈◊〉 Minerale ibid. Oil of Antimony ibid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 333 Nepenthes Opiatum ibid.  

EXTRACTS.  The way of making extracts 334  

SALTS.  The way of making Salts 335  

PREPARATIONS.  The burning of Brass 337 Washing of Aloes ibid. Preparation of Spodium ib. Preparation of Bole Armenick 338 Foecula Brioniae ib. May Butter ibid. The washing of quicklime ib Burning of Crabs 339 Preparation of Steel ibid. Preparation of Coriander seed ibid. Preparation of Flaterium ib. Preparation of Spurge roots 340 Preparation of Euphorbium ibid. Gersa serpentaria ibid. Preparation of Goat's blood ibid. Preparation of black Hellebore ibid. Burning of Swallows 341 Preparation of gum Lacca ib. Preparation of Lapis Lazuli ibid. Preparation of Earthworms ibid. Preparation of Pearls ib. Preparation of Woodlice 342 Way to make Oesipus ibid. Washed lead ibid. Burnt Led ibid. Powder of raw Lead 343 Preparation of Fox lungs ibid. Preparation of Scammony ib. The way to boil Turpentine 344 The preparation of Tutty ib.   

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE VIRTUE'S BOTH OF SIMPLES and Compounds contained in this BOOK.  

A  Abortion, causeth, Pag. 28. 46. 50. 152. 174. Abortion, stayeth, p. 51. 54. 76. 181. 263. 286. 304. Aches, 3. 21. 27. 40. 41. 47. 70. 267. 286. 310. 313. See Pain, After birth, 3. 15. 27. 28. 31. 36. 41. 44. 50. 51. 55. 59 66. 70. 88 91. 92. 93. 124. 152 153. 164. 174 184. 188, 189. 246. Agues, cause, 62. Agues, help, 4. 12. 15. 27. 28. 31. 36 41 44. 50. 51 55. 59 60. 66. 70. 88 91, 93. 124. 152. 153. 168. 174. 184. 188. 189. 193. 199. 243. 245. 246. 290. 325. Anger, 〈◊〉 St. Anthony's fire, 28. 35. 40. 53. Appetites, 25. 44. 45. 61. 216. 119. 〈◊〉. 262. 〈◊〉. See 〈◊〉. Apostaumes, 6. 28. 40 52. 277. Appoplexes, 89. 183. Asthma, 47. 142. 156. 175, 183. 142, 277. 290. See Cough.  

B  Back, 7. 34. 41. 268. see pain. Baldness, 5. 69. 65. 71. 73. 25. 257. Belching, 30. 34. 99 125. 137. 153 173, 195. Belly, 32. 168. see pain. Barranness, causeth, 32. Barrenness takes away, 41. 70. see Lust, Seed. Black Jaundice, 127. 206. See Jaundice. Bladder, 11. 29. 43. 52. 54. 56. 58. 60. 71. 128. 184. 256. 262. See Cleanse. Bloody flux, see flux. Blood Clotted, 30. Binds, 8. 74. 137. 285. 304. 307. See Flux, Terms, and Hemorrhoids. Birth, 3. 4. 28. 31. 36. 40. 44. 48. 50. 55. 59 66. 70. 76. 152. 174. 184. 246. 277. 290. 295. 325. See Travail. Botches, 42. Bots, 31 Boils, 6. 119. Blackness and blewness of a stroke, 12. 16. 20. See Bruises. Bleeding, 14, 16, 19, 23, 27, 31, 46, 57, 248, Bones broken, 16, 19, 23, 31, 〈◊〉, 296. Brain, 11, 27, 39, 51, 58, 59, 61, 73, 129, 131, 136, 147, 150, 157, 163, 171, 198, 246, Brain hurts. 75. Se Senses. Animal virtues. Breast. 32. 55. 72. 122. 127. 160. 318. Bruises, 5. 6. 12. 17. 19 30. 33. 36. 52. 72. 151. 316. Buboes, 42. Burnings, 3. 6. 8. 13. 23. 27. 29. 39 61. 301. Burstness, 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 10. 11. See Ruptures.  

C  Cancers, 107. 205. Cankers, 8. 30. Carbuncles, 12. 47. Catalepfis, 42. Colic, 3. 14. 20. 32. 33. 36. 43. 47. 63. 117. 152. 162. 165. 168. 177. 191. 250. 257. 277. 300. 318. See Wind. Choler, 42. 61. 62. 72. 99 140. 250. Choler increaseth, 6. Choler, purgeth, 17. 25. 33. 43. 49. 53. 65. 113. 115, 120. 121. 127. 185. 187. 192. 193. 198. 205. 255. Chaps, 279. Chaps in the fundament, 12. Chin cough, 57 Cleanse, 14. 72. 201. 207. 〈◊〉 women after labour, 30. 124 72. 174. 194, 203. 247. 314. Cleanseth the reins and bladder, 4. 18. 32. 55. 72. 190. 191 See Reins and bladdder Cools, 5. 52. 62. 67. 74. 87. 103. 112. 113. 116. 159. 161. 162. 164. 171. 243. 252. 254. 262. 263. Coughs, 6. 10. 13. 28. 34. 48. 50. 52. 56. 58. 59 67. 107. 122. 123. 127. 140. 141. 146. 152. 156. 158. 66. 240. 169. 171. 175. 183. 143. 156. Convulsion, 6. 15. 19 30. 32. 53. 58. 55. 59 88 93. 129. 130. 157. 171. 195. 270. 281. 324. Cold. 11. 318. see cough and hoarseness. Colour, 13, 56, 99, 196, 250, 269, Consumption, 29, 56, 60, 71, 73, 82, 83, 89, 91, 111, 147, 150, 156, 160, 161, 168, 171, 177, Conception, 46, See Abortion, Concocts, 58, See Digestion Corns, 107, Cramp, 6, 30, 32, 40, 41, 71, 129, 263.  

D  Dead child, 55, 88, 180, See Birth, Dead flesh, 9, 280, Deafness, 10, 256, 262, 321, Deformity, 43 See Freckles, Morphew etc. Diabetes, 70, Difficulty of breath, 25, See shortness of breath, Dislocations, 31, 310, 324, Digestion, 5, 27, 38, 61, 93, 116, 125, 149, 152, 154, 157, 158, 161, 170, 173, 177, 198, 239, 241, 246, 250, 262, 293, Drieth, 8, 74, 285, 304. Dropsy, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 28, 31, 32, 37, 41, 53, 58, 59, 61, 65, 72, 73, 76, 121, 155, 170, 177, 201, 208, 284, 319, 184, 245, 247, 324, Drunkenness, 33, 42, 69, 139, Dying men, 327.  

E  Eyes, spoils, 6, 16, 63, Eyes helps, 9, 20. 30, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 43, 51, 58, 69, 72, 94, 99, 147, 173, 198, 208, 254, 278, 298, Evil spirits, 20, Excoriations, 35, 46, 49, 130, Ears, 68, 71, Ephialts, 194, Ephialos, 245, Excressence of flesh, 249,  

F  Fainting, 11, 18, 74, 154, Falling sickness, 11, 14, 15, 30, 31, 39, 41, 42, 50, 53, 55, 59, 63, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 88, 99, 110, 129, 157, 163, 171, 177, 183, 195, 270, 273, 281, 322, 324. Fallingsickness, bad, 71. Fevers, 13, 25, 30, 35, 37, 57, 59, 67, 74, 75, 76, 85, 87, 104, 113, 126, 128, 146, 168, 188, 243, 244, 251, 324, 327. Fluxes, 3, 5, 12, 14, 19, 20, 21, 23, 28, 29, 33, 43, 46, 47, 51, 56, 59, 60, 70, 73, 106, 126, 137, 173, 177 181, 253, 262. Freckles, 4, 5, 28, 31, 31, 43, 51, 55, 102, 284. 〈◊〉, 6. see Purge. 31, 54, 103, 104, 128. 152. French-pox, 7, 13, 18. 24, 52, 55, 92. 〈◊〉 of the Mother, 〈◊〉, 27, 33, 40, 47. 66, 88, 93, 246. 305, 308, 314, 322, 326. Fistulaes', 31. 39, 54, 257, 277, 280. Frenzies, 37, 39 42. 49, 52, 53, 113, 268. Fleas, 41. 50. Falling out of the Fundament, 42. 43. Frettings, 44, Fundament. 45, 60. 285. Fractures, 66. Fear, 74, 75, 206. Folly, 74.  

G  Gravel, 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉, 40. 117, 〈◊〉. Green-sickness, 4, 26. 39, 46 94. 〈◊〉, 8, 12, 19, 20, 21. 〈◊〉. 33, 37, 39 41, 54. 70. 71. 96. 204. 205. 206, 208, 239, 256, 270. 271, 296, 319 〈◊〉, 13, 14. 34. 36, 115. Gangrenes, 31. 63. 325. Gunshot, 37. 277. Gnats 50. Gums, 61. 94. Generation hinders, 63. Gauling, 280.  

H  Headache, causeth, 6. 66. Headache helpeth. 15. 26. 30. 39 40. 47. 49. 56. 58. 60, 67. 135, 195. 198. 203. Head strengtheneth, 94. 262, 320. Head purgeth, 7. 269. Hemorroids, hurts, 65. 174. Hemrroids, 7. 8, 17, 52, 56. 177, 181. 196. 283. 285. Hoarceness, 11, 48. 50, 56, 66. 107, 123, 139. 159 143. Heart qualms, 18. 19 27. 30. 57 62. 63. 89. 126. 147. 177, 249. Humours, 25. 34. Hichoughs. 27, 126. 〈◊〉. 34. Horses, 34, 41. Hearrburning. 42. Hunger. 47, Hectic fevers. 70, 71, 82, 83. 111. 156, 168. 171. 188, 243, 256, 290:  

I  〈◊〉 purgeth. 12. 〈◊〉. 5, 28 29. 30. 31. 32. 34 37. 38. 40. 41. 46. 〈◊〉. 53. 57, 58. 59 61. 123. 160. 263. 272. 299. 300. 306. Itch. 10, 13. 18. 44. 48 49. 52. 53. 63. 72. 74. 107. 121. 205. 269. 270, 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 293. Jaundice. 15. 24. 32. 34. Joints heat. 20. Joints, 27. 40. 60. 193. 〈◊〉.  

I  ILl Airc 86 162 142 In digestion 93. See digestion 172 Iliaack passion 162 168 250 277 319 Itching of wounds 272  

K  KIngs-Evil 7 10 19 Kibes 165  

L  Lust provokes 5 10 14 18 34 35 39 57 58 61 63 69 175 262 Lungs 6 14 19 21 41 52 60 67 70 101 108 122 138 158 160 176 318 Liver 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 16 24 27 29 33 34 38 52 59 62 〈◊〉 121 127 169 190 247 265 300 306 Liver, hurts 71 Leprosy 7 10 22 26 32 40 107 195 205 Lethargy 9 26 53 64 74 204 313 Looseness 35 60 Lice 36 57 Lice cause 60 Love causeth 75 Loosens 115 Leanness 160 Limbs 180 Ligaments 265  

M  Madness hurt full 62 Madness helps 9 10 30 39 50 58 72 93 101 116 124 195 204 Mad dogs their bitings, 5 6 31 32 45 69 163 Matrix 26 28 29 33 45 53 55 60 62 71 118 169 256 262 265 285 〈◊〉 70 82 83 188 Melancholy 10 15 18 27 30 38 39 53 62 63 72 74 82 99 101 105 107 115 116 121 124 127 180 184 185 125 129 130 135 136 145 151 154 163 187 192 193 196 204 205 206 208 244 264 307 322 Megrim 47 135 195 203 Memory burts 41 Memory helps 38 51 59 125 Mice 9 Milk increaseth 9 27 53 Morphew 4 5 7 9 10 28 31 55 257 316 Moths 6 25 31 36 38 44 Muscles 265  

N  Numbness 3 318 Naught for women with child 9 11 12 Noise in the ears 10 16 39 41 262 Navel 15 Nerves 27 62 73 118 129 136 262 318 321 Nose 30 Nits 36 Nature 125  

O  OBstructions 7 11 12 17 43 53 101 104 107 121 128 155 201 143 265 Old age 89 161 324  

P  Poison 3 4 5 6 12 13 14 19 20 21 22 25 27 32 34 37 39 44 51 68 70 71 75 82 92 104 111 116 119 162 169 177 180 183 142 324 Pain in the head 3 17  

See Headache  Pestilcnce 3 5 6 9 12 13 14 19 22 27 32 39 43 44 47 51 61 69 70 71 73 75 81 82 85 86 92 104 116 131 162 168 173 177 182 184 142 319 324 326 Purge 4 13 53 280 Purgeth all parts of the body gallantly 68 Purge 〈◊〉 5 12 13 19 53 54 65 96 99 115 115 136 166 185 187 192 204 208 255 Pleuresies 34 57 122 123 140 160 〈◊〉 192 253 256 275 Piles 78 Se. Hemorrhoids Priapismus 35 Purge by Urine 78 35 Pimples 37 102 285 326 Pain in the sides and bowels 8 Pain in the stomach 11 Phtisicks 44 49 71 91 127 140 141 240 243 Pin and Web 11 Palseyes 16 40 41 71 157 177 239 268 273 318 Pain in the joints 17 Pissing of blood 25 31 34 43 44 46 130 147 248 Pain 30 181 253 272 295 Putrefaction 159 169 190 277 299 301  

Q  QUinsic 36  

R  RAwhumours 11 27 Ruptures 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 14 15 19 28 36 37 39 44 53 130 301 324 Running of the reigns 5 23 34 41 49 62 110 Rickets 6 11 15 16 22 47 55 72 129 135 139 170 244 307 Rank savour 8 Rats 9 Rowelling of cattle 10 Reins 11 12 13 15 27 56 58 60 71 128 265 Rheums 15 29 43 Riches 74 Redness 102 285 Ringworms 107 121 257 288 270 Rust 326  

S  STone 3 8 10 12 14 17 18 20 26 32 34 36 39 40 47 49 53 56 57 63 69 70 76 117 128 155 162 174 176 194 193 253 262 270 Spleen 4 6 8 11 12 13 16 22 24 26 29 33 34 38 41 42 47 52 53 55 58 59 60 62 72 129 169 170 172 177 184 190 196 247 264 291 295 300 318 Scurf 45 9 Stopping 4 17 33 43 106 165 198 Spitting blood 5 6 7 16 22 31 34 35 46 51 58 61 73 100 126 130 147 181 183 240 248 Spitting matter 534 Soremouth 5131  

See Ulcers.  Sunburniug 5 8 10 28 32 51 55 102 326 Swellings 6 15 19 25 30 44 54 57 301 314 315 Shortness of breath 6 10 11 12 25 31 32 33 34 50 52 56 57 59 66 157 175 321 Shrinking of sinews 6 26 27 33 Senses dulls 6 Senses strengthens 59 85 89 171 173 180 198 325 Sweat provokes 6 7 12 17 19 81 180 285 291 Scabs 7 10 13 18 24 31 38 43 48 49 52 53 62 63 72 74 107 121 205 269 270 278 321 Scaldings 8 27 29 39 277 290 301 Strengthens 8 57 84 200 201 239 302 313 Stomach hurts 16 22 Strengthensthe stomach 10 61 62 84 86 108 110 111 125 150 158 179 180 190 198 241 249 250 254 307 313 Strengthens the heart 8 84 90 92 110 111 115 125 150 158 179 161 164 168 242 245 249 250  

See heart.  Strengthens the spirit Vital 72 73 81 84 92 110 115 125 147 150 168 242 246 Natural 72 84 147 157 Animal 72 84 129 147 157 163 246 Sneezing 9 Suppuration 13 Stitches 14 29 33 Shingles 14 29 35 40 53 Strangury 15 34 40 41 43 53 162 174 Sigtbings 16 17 163 Sobbing 16 163 Seed increaseth 18 63 256 Diminisheth 26 51 Scarrifieth 280 Sadness 18 30 154 206 322 Swimming in the head, se Vertigo Stinking breath 21 66 89 249 Small-pocks 28 72 269 321 Spots 31 51 256 Sciatica 34 42 See Gout Surfeit 39 139 Sprains 266 267 286 Swoonings 42 89 111 163 Scurvy 46 Scald heads 69 73 See Leprosy Swine pocks 269 Naught for the Spleen 71 Sleep takes away 75 Provokes 86 112 140 145 240 254 262 290 Stuff 4 104 106 165 See stops and obstructions.  

T  Terms stops 3 5 17 20 22 23 28 29 31 33 35 39 47 56 59 61 73 106 110 126 130 137 171 173 196 293 262 Toothache 5 6 7 10 13 16 19 26 32 60 69 81 326 Teeth loose 5 22 28 61 66 74 Terms provokes 6 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 21 27 31 34 36 42 50 105 116 118 124 152 170 179 248 268 319 Tetters 7 107 121 256 278 280 Travaill in women 8 15 21 42 See birth 179 Thorns 15 27 Throat 19 28 35 41 67 142 256 Thirst 47 61 62 103 104 116 137 168 251 327 Teeth on edge 49 Teeth to draw them without instrument 68 Tenasmus 69 Teeth to cut 69 Tremble 70 154 239 270 Teeth black 73 Teeth strengthen 94 Teudons 265 tumors 277  

V  Valour causeth 75 Vain fears 146 See fears Venomous beasts 3 4 8 9 11 14 25 27 32 36 38 43 44 48 50 68 74 82 92 169 262 268 277 Urine provokes 3 4 5 6 11 12 14 15 17 18 20 21 26 27 31 32 36 42 43 44 49 50 53 58 68 70 116 152 176 253 Vomiting causeth 4 Vomiting stays 5 14 20 22 27 46 50 51 104 106 125 137 149 173 262 299 301 Ulcers 5 6 8 13 14 15 24 32 33 34 36 42 47 52 55 60 66 74 123 45 246 248 249 273 277 280 295 308 325 Vertigo 9 18 31 32 66 104 135 157 195 198 318 Ulcers in the bladder, hurt 16 Veins broken 36 Vomiting blood 58 130 147 169 183 Voice 99 143  

W  Warts 12 107 Wens 12 Weakness 30 Wisdom 74 Witchcraft 40 73 Weariness 39 65 268 Whites 5 46 49 62 73 110 171 Wind causeth 86 Wind easeth 3 5 8 11 14 20 41 51 52 54 57 63 65 70 93 94 116 124 149 153 159 170 177 192 〈◊〉 257 263 286 318 Women with child 73 See Abortion Wowds 3 7 8 12 15 18 23 27 28 30 34 35 36 37 40 41 44 47 48 52 54 66 102 130 248 249 262 263 273 275 277 278 296 299 304 308 316 Wry necks 32 Wry mouths 268 270 273  

Y  YEllow Jaundice 7 8 13 21 27 28 29 35 36 39 48 50 51 56 65 68 70 106 116 127 155 160 184 198 199 201 141 243 245 255  
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