Pharmacopoeia Lemeriana Contracta: Lemeries Universal Pharmacopoeia abridged, IN A COLLECTION OF Recepe's and Observations, Compared With the London and with Bates' Dispensatories; and also, with Charas' Royal Pharmacy.  
To which are added, Some Remedies recommended by the Members of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, most collected out of the History of that Society, lately published by John Baptista du Hamel.  
LONDON, Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-head in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1700.   

THE PREFACE.  
THE Choice, due Preparation and Mixture of Medicines are of such known consequence to the welfare of Mankind, that I should lose time, if I spent any in recommending Pharmacy; and it being little less obvious, that a Skill in Chemistry is indispensably necessary to make an able Apothecary, I shall think it needless to insist upon any Praises of Mr. Lemery in this particular, since his Ingenious and Learned Treatise upon the Subject, so well received over all Europe, that it has been printed nine times in French, thrice in English, and several times in Latin, is an unquestinable proof of his Ability. Therefore I take the only thing incumbent on me, to be, to account why I have taken so little from a Book which I take pains to insinuate, is valuable; for which I shall offer these reasons. 1. That upon comparing his to the London and Bates' Dispensatories, and with Monsieur Charas' Royal Pharmacy already Englished, I have found very many good Remedies borrowed from the two first, and not a few taken from the latter, which I thought as needless as disingenuous to insert in this Collection, those Books being in most people's hands already; if I take notice of any, it is very seldom but where some alteration is made, or to vindicate our Compositions from faults my Author pretends to find in them. 2. I do often abridge into ten or a dozen words what I find spun out uselessly into twenty or thirty lines: It is in telling what quantity of different Ingredients are contained in a determinate portion of a Composition; my Author is not content to say, that there is so much contained in a Scruple or in a Drachm, but gins anew, and tells there is so much contained in two Scruples, and in two Drachms, and commences again, and goes on often to an Ounce and a half, and that sometimes in such ordinary Compositions as Lenitive Electuary for Glisters. For my part, I believe neither this nor any other Book would be of use to such as should want Brains to calculate, that if a Drachm contains so many Grains of an Ingredient, two Drachms of the same Composition must contain twice so many Grains; and so any other assignable quantity thereof, more or less as it is contained in, or contains a Drachm. 3. I avoid what does considerably augment the Bulk of this great Pharmacy, viz. a frequent Repetition of tedious Remarks, designed for the Instruction of Novices, but altogether useless to such as are under the direction of Masters to learn their Calling, and far short of Sufficiency to render any other an Artist; for there is a certain Modus, a nice secundum Artem in duly preparing Medicines, which is as impossible to be learned by dry Precepts without Manual Operation directed by a viva voce Instruction, as it is unlikely to become a famous Fencer by Contemplation and serious Study of Agrippa's or any other great Artist's Posture-Book. And truly it is wonderful, that in such a Nation as this is, where plenty affords due means to preserve Health, people should risk this Comfort of Life, in making use of the adulterate, diliterious, slovenly Compositions of ignorant pretending Quacks, whose number grows daily upon us through the Dissension of Physicians among themselves, and the unhappy Difference of the College with the Apothecaries, whereof there can likely be no prospect of Accommodation, when Methods are taken to widen the Breach to the considerable detriment of Physic in general, and no less disreputation of English Physicians, hitherto deservedly famous over all the Learned World. To heal a Wound by irritating it, and putting its severed parts at a greater distance, was never learned 〈◊〉 Hypocrates, and will be always as unsuccessful as the attempts of a late ingenious Author to ridicule Men into Conformity. Such Constraints are too like Dragooning to take in this free Nation, and it is pity he has thrown away so much truly noble Verse, Claudian-like, on so mean a Subject. As for the anonymous Author that has so disingeniously laboured to lessen Apothecaries, they set so little by his mighty Performance, that upon discovery of his Name; they have only cut off the Initial Letter, and it's said, the best of them are so little averse to a fair Accommodation with the College, that they would not be against a Subordination, equally distant from vying with approved able Physicians and a too servile dependence on them. It is more than probable, that such a temper would prove to the Credit and Interest of both. But I must leave this Subject to acquaint the Reader, that I generally prefer the less Compound when larger Compositions are not recommended by experienced Practitioners; for all Plants and Minerals are in themselves Compositions where Nature has regulated the Doses and Mixtures of Principles with an exactness unattainable by Art, if we were but fortunate enough to hit upon them and to apply them right; on the other hand, the overnice uncompoundedness sought after by laborious and tiresome analysis, seems an equal Error, many Quintessences, Elixirs, Ethereal Oils, and such others, called, the Souls of Mixts, proving short of the efficacy of the grosser parts, witness the Kinkina. Let Experience guide here as in cases of this nature it ought, being the only Test that can be safely relied on in the use and choice of Medicines, for Taste and Smell (Dr. Floyer's Touchstone) prove woefully deceitful on many occasions, and do not reach some Sovereign Remedies, as the Ipecacuanha and Jesuits Bark, that have no Smell at all, and Mercury and Antimony that have neither Taste nor Smell. Before I conclude this Preface, I must take notice of a Method in Practice peculiar (for what I can learn) to Mr. Lemery, viz. leaving on or continuing Blistering-Plaisters to the same part for 16 or 20 days together, and that he says with success in young Children troubled with obstinate Defluxions on their Eyes. Tho' his Vesicatory is not so strong of the Cantharideses as ours generally are, I believe few will think it safe to prescribe it his way here, where there is a fresh Instance of that degree of prejudice against the foreign Fly, that some have been severely handled for ordering the internal use in a very small quantity and wary circumspect manner; the case so desperate, that ordinary Medicines proved ineffectual. In my Judgement the Reasons urged against the Practice, well considered, proved it safe. I will add my Thoughts, and humbly submit them to the unbyass'd Reader.  
The Arguments used against the internal use of the Cantharideses ran most thus, That an external application raises Blisters, tears the Flesh, causes often a great pain in the Bladder, accompanied sometimes with bloody Urine, etc. therefore, if taken inwardly they will of necessity excoriate the Stomach, tear the tender Blood-vessels in the Lungs, and endanger all the noble parts.  
If we duly examine how Blistering-Plaisters applied to the Neck, Arms, or other external parts, cause the Pain and Bloody-Urine complained of, we will find, that both are occasioned by an adhesion of some Corrosive Particles of the Cantharideses to the inner Membrane and Neck of the Bladder; and if we examine how such Particles come to these parts from the Back or Arms, we will find, they must of necessity pass through the Lungs and Heart, and that probably several times before they are carried off by Urine; for passing gradually with the refluent Blood to the Heart, it is not unlike they impregnate the Mass equally; and if so, there can be no more carried to the Kidneys in one Circulation, than what the Blood of the Emulgent Arteries happens to be then loaded with, which must bear the same proportion to the whole, as this quantity of Blood doth to the entire Mass, the rest of the Cantharideses at the same time, being carried to those called Noble, as well as to other parts, as they receive more or less of the impregnated Fluid. Since thus it is manifest, that the Acrimonious Salts of the Cantharideses pass through the Lungs and Heart when from an external application they affect the Bladder, and that it seems more than probable, that some portion is at the same time conveyed with the Blood to all the other Noble Parts, it follows, that either the fear of giving them inwardly in a small quantity and with good correctives is groundless, or that there must be evident danger in a frequent External Application, which is contrary to daily Experience. If Cantharideses were so pernicious as some imagine, what dreadful effects would they not work when applied in Vesicatories to such as are apt to spit Blood, or are subject to Dysenteries? What a condition must they be in, that have half a dozen Blisters on at a time? can it be supposed that there is not more of the Fly circulating among their Noble Parts than would be in one that should take in half a Grain at the Mouth; certainly the great benefit found by Vesicatories in the fusion of a gross sluggish Serum, and the consequent excretion of that with the Peccant Matter by Urine and copious Sweats, is an unquestionable proof of the intimate mixture of a considerable part of their Acrimonious Particles with the Mass of Blood if there were no other Argument to prove it. Much more might be alleged on this Subject from matters of fact, but that would make the Preface as big as the Book, so I shall end here, and beg the Reader to pardon some false pointings and literal errors, and to take the words Filter and Filtration (which are often used in this small Collection) in their larger Sense, for ordinary straining, not for passing Liquors through Cap-paper as Chemists use them.   

OF INFUSIONS AND Decoctions.  
HEre they are deservedly censured, that overcharge their Liquor with too great a quantity and number of Drugs, it being manifest, that neither Infusion nor Decoction becomes thereby the stronger, because no assignable Menstruum can load itself, nor take up more of any substance, than fills its pores, or can adjust itself to its insensible constituent parts. But these intercepted Interstices varying in Figure and Capacity, it follows, that when a Liquor is so satiate with a certain substance, that it will not dissolve one Grain more of it, though it should stand never so long thereon; yet it will readily take up another body, whose minute parts are more proportionate to its unpossess'd Pores, or can adjust themselves better to its inconspicuous Principles. I add this last, because it is demonstrable, that the parts of the dissolved body are not all received into the empty spaces that lie interspersed in the dissolving Liquor; since this does often considerably increase in Volume, and that sometimes proportionably to the bulk of what is dissolved therein, which could not be, if only vacuola, or intercepted empty spaces, became satiate. What is here advanced, is manifestly proved by the following easy and unexpensive Experiments. Take 6 or 8 Ounces of water, throw common Salt into it, until it will dissolve no more, then pour off the Liquor, and add Sugar until that remains unalter'd: then take Nitre, Salarmoniac, Alum, Vitriol, Borax, and you will find, that your water will still dissolve a small quantity of each, because the Receptacles commensurate to the figure and size of their minute parts did not admit the undissolved part of the common Salt and Sugar, by reason of their different shape and bulk. You may observe, that water will take up four times as much Sugar as of green Vitriol, and twenty times the quantity of Sugar that it will dissolve of Borax, that what dissolves soon raises the water less; and è contra.  
It is by the proportion of the Figure, Size, and Site of the parts of the dissoluble bodies to the dissolving Liquors, that we can account why common water is a fit Menstruum for Senna, Rhubarb, and Tamarinds, but altogether improper for Jalap, Turbith, and such other resinous Mixtures as require sulphureous Liquors, as Spirit of Wine, etc. Hence it appears how absolutely necessary it is for Apothecaries to know the various Substances of medicinal Drugs, both that they may choose the properest Menstruums, and duly regulate their Infusions and Decoctions, as to degree of fire, length of time, and other circumstances, left by prescription solely to their Prudence and Discretion.  
When several Drugs are used in a Decoction, the most solid, such as Woods, are first put in, than Roots, Barks and Fruits; next Herbs, Berries and Seeds; Flowers the last of all. The Woods, Roots and Barks are rasped, bruised or cut small, Fruits slit, Herbs chopped, Berries and Seeds slightly beat, and Flowers put in whole. However this method, though pretty general, admits of exception, for thin and fpungy Wood requires less boiling than one that is more close and solid. Barley whole endures as much boiling as Wood On the other hand, Aromatic Roots and Woods will not bear long boiling, but their better and more essential parts will dissipate. Barks, Fruits, and Aromatic Seeds require only a bare Infusion. Liquorish-Roots is put in after the Herbs. The Maidenhairs or Capillaries at the same time with the Liquorish or immediately after. The cold Seeds at the same time as the Flowers.  

Cephalic Decoction.  
℞. Misletoe of the Oak, Roots of Male Peony, Avens, of each six Drams; shave of an Elk's hoof, Juniper-Berries, of each three Drams; leaves of Sage, Betony, Margerum, Basil, of each an handful; Flowers of Cassadonie, Lilies of the Valleys, Clove-Gilly-Flowers, Lime-tree, of each one Pugil; let them be boiled according to art, in three quarts of common water.  
This Decoction strained and settled will hardly keep above two days in Summer, if not placed in a cold Cellar, nor above four in Winter. It is recommended against Epilepsies, Apoplexies, Lethargies, and other distempers of the head, occasioned chief by stoppages in the passage, and small Channels of the Animal Spirits, of from the turgency of crude Humours that press overmuch the substance of the Brain.  
He boils River-Crabs in his pectoral Decoction, borroweth Sydenham's decoctum album, which he sweetens with Syrup of Comfrey instead of Sugar, when he designs Astriction. His bitter Decoction is the same with ours, only that he uses equal parts of Wine and Water, this and other Bitters are Febrifuges because the saline and sulphureous parts they consist of, attenuate and dissolve gross viscid Humours, and so raise the Obstructions that occasion Fevers.   

A Sudorific Decoction or Diet-Drink.  
℞. Of Sarsaparilla 2 Ounces, Chinaroot 1 Ounce, Contrayerva and Holy-wood of each half an Ounce, crude Antimony grossly beat and tied in a knot 4 Ounces; let them be infused hot in 4 quarts of common water for 12 hours, then boiled to the consumption of a third part; add towards the latter end 6 Ounces of sliced Liquorish, with 3 Drams of Sassafras Wood  
This drink is taken three or four times a day, about six Ounces at a time, and continued for some days in Rheumatisms to attenuate the viscid roapy Serum, and in the close of the cure of a Gonorrhoea, to correct and carry off the peccant Humours by Transpiration.  
Prisans and Decoctions differ only in this, that the first are less loaded with Ingredients, for being designed for the ordinary drink of sick persons, the less they are clogged with Drugs, the more agreeable and palatable they prove. They are much used in France, the following is the common Ptisan.   

℞. Picked Barley cleansed from all filth one handful, let it boil in 2 quarts of common water to the consumption of a third part, then add sliced and beaten Liquorish half an Ounce, and make the Ptisan according to art.  
The Liquorish is but slightly boiled, because otherwise it would communicate an unpleasant bitterness, especially if new. There may be added Citron Peel, Coriander Seed, Cinnamon, etc. to please those that love these things. The Prisan makers, that sell it all Summer long in the Streets of Paris, content themselves with a bare Infusion of Liquorish in fair water. Ptisans may be made Pectoral by addition of Raisins, Jujubs, etc. aperitive by making use of openning roots, or binding thus.   

℞. Whole Barley 2 Ounces, shave of Hartshorn 1 Ounce, Tormentil roots half an Ounce, Berberries one handful, boil them in three quarts of water, until a third part be consumed.  
They that would have i● more astringent, may, instead of common, make use of steeled water.  
They use the following Infusion at Paris, as we do the decoctum Sennae Gercinis here.   

The common purging Infusion.  
℞. Choice cleansed Senna 3 Drams, Salt of Tartar 1 Scruple; infuse them hot a whole night in 8 Ounces of water, than strain and press out the Liquor for a Dose.  
Three Drams of Senna will impregnate six Ounces of water, so that the Tincture will not become stronger by addition of a greater quantity, since a Menstruum (as was said before) cannot load itself, but with a determinate portion of any substance. This Infusion in water is esteemed preferable to others made in Decoctions, because the Liquor in these is already so charged with Particles of other Ingredients, that there is little or no room left for those of the Senna. The Salt of Tartar doth not only render the Menstruum more penetrating, and consequently fit to draw a Tincture from the Senna, but also attenuates and rarefies the viscid substance drawn from the leaves, and so prevents the griping pains that would be occasioned by the adhesion of this gluish substance, to the inward Membrane of the Intestines. Instead of Salt of Tartar may be used Sal Polycrestum, crystal Mineral, or soluble Tartar, commonly called Vegetable Salt; but of all Salts the Alkaline are the most proper to dissolve the viscous slimy Substances, that yield the Tincture, and to prevent Gripes. The Ancients unacquainted with these Salts, made use of Cinnamon, Citron, and Orange-Peel, Ginger, and Carminative Seeds, which in all respects come far short of the other.  
Senna is said to purge off Melancholy more than other Humours, which if true, is perhaps, because it consists of fixed parts that have a greater disposition to unite and adhere to this Humour, which is fixed and earthy, and by irritating the parts wherein it is chief lodged cause its excretion.  
Instead of Spirit of Vitriol in drawing a Tincture from Roses, he sometimes uses Spirit of Sugar, sometimes the Juices of Barberries and Currants making amends for their lesser acidity in the greater quantity. These Tinctures are used instead of Prisans in Diarrhoea's, Hemorrhagies, Gonorrhoeas, Whites, etc.   

A Cephalic purging Apozem.  
℞. Roots of Avens, Male-Peonie, Misletoe of the Oak, of each half an Ounce; leaves of Betony, Rosemary, Sage, of each half a handful: let them be boiled according to art in two quarts of water, to the Consumption of a fourth part in this Liquor strained without expression; infuse for 15 hours, picked Senna 6 Drams, choice Rhubarb, Agaric trochisked, of each two Drams, Juniper-Berries 1 Dram, soluble Tartar ● Drams: then let the Infusion be strained and pressed out, in which diffolve Syrup of solutive Roses, compounded with Agaric an●… Syrup of Peach Flowers of each 2 Ounces.  
This Apozem is taken for some days together, a glass or two a day, adding to or lessening the quantity according as it works. The quantity of the Ingredients is the lesser in the Decoction, that there may be more room left for the Particles of the purging Drugs in the Infusion.   

An astringent Emulsion.  
℞. Sweet Almonds blanched, 6 couple; Seeds of Cotton-tree, Plantain, Meadow-Rue, white Poppies, Quinces, Sumach, of each a Dram and a half; beat them in a Mortar, pouring in by degrees a quart of the Decoction of Barley, Roots of Plantain, and great Comfrey; then strain and add Syrup of dry Roses, and Barberries of each 2 Ounces, and you have an Emulsion to be taken in four doses.  
This is used in spitting of Blood, in Dysenteries, Hemorrhagies, Gonorrhoeas, Whites, or wherever Astriction is proper; which it causes probably in correcting the sharpness of the blood by its aqueous mucilage, and checking its brisk Circulation by mixture of its sluggish, spiritless parts.   

An Almond Milk.  
℞. Sweet Almonds blanched 2 Ounces, beat them in a Marble Mortar, pouring in by degrees a pint of Barleywater, and when you have strained the Liquor, dissolve therein an Ounce and a half of the best refined Sugar.  
If you put to this half an Ounce of Orange-Flower-Water, perfume it with Musk or Ambergris, and keep it in Ice it will drink deliciously. It is much esteemed at Paris, and called there, Orgeat des Limonadiers.   

An Antinephritic Potion.  
℞. Syrup of Marsh Mallows, Oil of sweet Almonds drawn without fire, of each an Ounce and a half; boast white Wine 3 Ounces, water of Radishes, and Pellitory of the wall, of each 2 Ounces; Crystal Mineral 1 Dram, Spirit of Turpentine, and of Salt, of each 8 drops, mix them all for 2 Doses.  
This mixture is used in Nephritick Colicks. It's oily slimy parts, smooth and lenify the urinary passages, dull the edge of the sabulous matter, and facilitate its Excretion.   

A Diuretic mixture.  
℞. Spirit of Turpentine one Ounce, rectified Spirit of Salt, dulcified Spirit of Nitre, Spirit of Cresses, Amber, and of Elixir proprietatis, of each 2 Drams; mix all together.  
This Mixture is taken in white Wine and in other appropriate Liquors, from 4 to 15 drops: it is useful in Suppression of Urine, Nephritick colics; it attenuates and incides the gravelly matter, and cleanses the Kidneys.   

An Antiepileptic Mixture.  
℞. Imperial water, Cinnamon water, of each one Ounce, rectified Spirit of Man's Skull 2 Drams; rectified Oil of Amber, Volatile oleous Salt, and Tincture of Salt of Tartar, of each one Dram; mix all together.  
This Mixture is proper in the falling-sickness, and other Distempers of the Brain; it is taken in and out of the fit to two Scruples.    

Of Gargarisms, Masticatories, Errhines, or Tents put up into the Nostrils, Injections and Pessaries.  
GArgarisms are liquid mixtures designed for Diseases of the Throat, Mouth, Palate and Gums; they are also used sometimes to stop a Salivation, they are to be held in the mouth and not swallowed.  
Masticatories are sharp hot Drugs, that being chewed in the Mouth, open the salival Ducts, incide gross Humours that stop the Glands, and so provoke spitting; Tabaco, Ginger, Pellitory of Spain, Mustardseed, Pepper, Orrice-root, and such like may be used as Masticatories.  
Errhines are akin to these they are put in the Nose to make it run, or to provoke sneezing, they may be either of a liquid or solid form.  
Injections are used upon several occasions, especially in venereal cases, to allay pain, to stop a running, etc. and in deep Wounds.  
Pessaries are used only for Women, to provoke the Menses, stop undue Fluxes, or heal Ulcers: we add but a few Formules, because those are to be seen in most practical Books.  

A Gargoyle to stop a Salivation raised by Mercury.  
℞. Whole Barley 1 Ounce, leaves of Plantain, knot Grass, red Roses, of each half an handful, Cypress Nuts, Rinds of Granates; Flowers of Sumach, of each half an Ounce; Berberry-Seeds 2 Drams; let them be boiled in a quart of red Wine and Water, to the Consumption of a third part, then strained, dissolve in a pint of the Liquor 2 Drams of the astringent Extract of Mars, half a Dram of Salt of Saturn, and 2 Drams of Honey of Roses.  
This Gargoyle deterges and dries the Ulcers of the Mouth, fasteneth the lose Teeth, strengthens the Gums, Cheeks, and if often used, entirely stops a Salivation that continues over long.   

pastils to be held in the Mouth and chewed.  
℞. Roots of Orrice, Stavesacre, of each half an Ounce; long Pepper, Pellitory of Spain, and Mustardseed, of each 2 Drams; let them be all powdered and mixed with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of pale Roses, that they may be made into pastils.  
These being put into a piece of fine Linen, and slightly chewed, open the salival Glands, and excretory Ducts, and by stimulating the parts, cause a great discharge of tough viscid Phlegm.   

Sneezing Powder.  
℞. White Hellebore, Tabaco-roots, of Florence Orice, of each 2 Drams; Flowers of Lilies of Valleys, leaves of Betony, Margerum, and Sage, of each one Dram; powder all together.  
This Powder may be made stronger, by adding a Scruple of Euphorbium to it. It may be of good use in Apoplexies, Lethargies and other soporiferous Distempers.   

An Injection to stop a Gonorrhoea.  
℞. Plantain and Rose-water, of each 4 Ounces; Honey of Roses 1 Ounce, medicamental Stone 1 Dram; mix them for an Injection.  
When it's proper to use this Injection, it will be convenient to take astringent Pills to strengthen the relaxed parts: if instead of the Stone [you use the Trochisks of Rasis, the Injection will be the milder, but not so drying, detersive nor astringent.   

A Vulnerary Injection.  
℞. Roots of round Birthwort 1 Ounce; let it boil in a pint and a half of white Wine, to the Consumption of a third part; then add to the Liquor strained and pressed out an Ounce and half of Honey of Roses, Tincture of Myrrh, and Aloes, of each half an Ounce.  
This Injection being squirted or syringed into Wounds, cleanses and deterges them, resists putrefaction, and prevents in a great measure a Gangrene; the Pledgets and Compresses may be drenched in it.   

A Lotion to kill Vermin in the Head.  
℞. Stavesacre 2 Ounces, Wormseed 1 Ounce, Wormwood, Tansey, Betony, lesser Centaury, of each 2 handfuls; let them boil in 2 quarts of water, to the Consumption of a third part; bath and wash the head with Sponges drenched in the strained Liquor.  
They that would have this Lotion stronger, may boil the Ingredients in Urine.   

A Lotion against the Itch.  
℞. Roots of sharppointed Dock, Elecampane, of each four Ounces, white Hellebore 1 Ounce, leaves of Wormwood, Water-Cresses, of each 1 handful; boil them in two quarts of water to the Consumption of a third part; in the straining, made with expression, dissolve 6 Drams of Salt of Tartar.  
If the Ingredients were boiled in the Lotions of white Precipitate, the Liquor would prove much more efficacious against the Itch, running Sores, Scab, Tetters, etc.   

A Wash to make Hair black.  
℞. Rinds of green Walnuts half a pound, Bark of Oak, Alder, Galls, of each 2 Ounces; leaves of Myrtle, Pomegranate, of each 1 handful; boil them in three pints of water, until a third part is consumed; then strain with a strong expression, and dissolve in the Liquor an Ounce and a half of Rock-Alum, and the like quantity of English green Vitriol.  
This darkens red hair wonderfully, if often moistened and, left to dry of itself without rubbing.   

The common emollient Mucilage.  
℞. Roots of Marsh Mallows 4 Ounces, Lin-Seeds, Seeds of Fenugreek, of each 1 Ounce; let them be infused for 12 hours in two quarts of common water over hot embers, then boiled in a slow heat to the Consumption of half the water, and the Mucilage strained with expression.  
This is not only used as a Mucilage, but also as a Fomentation to allay Pains, soften tumors, and to dispose them to Dissolution or Suppuration.   

A Mucilage to stop Hemorrhagies.  
℞. Seeds of Flea-wort and of Quinces, of each half an Ounce; infuse them for 12 hours over hot embers in a pint of the distilled waters of Plantain and Roses; then boil them slowly until a third part is boiled away, and let them be strained and pressed out.  
This Mucilage being mixed with an equal quantity of Syrup of Quinces, or some other astringent Syrup is taken often, and by large Spoonfuls in all sorts of Hemorrhagies: it causes a smoothness in the Palate, defends the Throat from the sharpness of Rheums, and by its slime and roapy parts check the violent motion of Humours, inviscating their sharp saline Particles.   

Mucilage or Jelly of Isinglass.  
℞. Isinglass out small 1 Ounce, infuse it in a pint of water, and boil it gently to a Jelly.  
It may be made in Milk. It is good in most Fluxes, in Whites, and proves effectual, when many other Medicines fail in stopping an inveterate troublesome Gleet.   

A Powder for quilted or spice Caps.  
℞. Cloves, Cinnamon, Aromatick-Reed, sweet Rush, Orrice, Margerum, Rosemary, Betony, Sage, Cassidonie, of each 1 Dram; Laurel Berries, Storax, Benjamin, Tacamahac, of each half a Dram, powder all grossly, and put them into Cotton for spice Caps.  
Quilted spice Caps were formerly much more in use than they are now; they were believed to strengthen and refresh the Brain, and were therefore commended against Epilepsies, Lethargies, Palsies and Apoplexies; they consist of subtle volatile parts, which may in some small quantity get through the Sutures of the Skull, and by attenuating and rarifying tough and viscid Humours, render them more fluxed and easier of discharge. Musk and Amber may be added, if the patiented be not subject to Vapours. The Powders are not to be beaten fine, that they may not spend themselves too soon, nor pass through the thin Taffities the Caps are made of. The same, or like Powders may be quilted in Stomachers, which if they do not comfort and fortify the Stomach, will at least keep it the warmer.    

Perfumes.  
MEdicinal Perfumes are not all equally agreeable, there being many scarce supportable, that are nevertheless very beneficial on several occasions, where the more pleasant would prove destructive. Perfumers mix Florence Orrice, Benjamin, Storax, Lignum Rhodium, yellow Saunders, Aromatick-Reed, Somes, Flowers of Benjamin, and a few Cloves, moisten them with Orange-Flower-Water, and keep them in the cold, in a Matrass, and when they have occasion to use the mixture, they pour some into Cassolets or perfuming Pans, which placed in a gentle heat, yield a most pleasant sweet smell.  

A Fumigation to raise a Salivation in the Venereal Pox.  
℞. Cinnabar an Ounce and a half, Juniper-Berries, Frankincense, Mastic, Laudanum, of each a Dram and a half; let them be powdered and kept for use.  
This way of receiving Mercury is dangerous, being often attended with grievous Accidents; whether because it is all received into one part, or affects the Nerves more. Most certain it is, that it will prove far safer to proceed by Friction, and other preparations of Mercury to raise a Flux; and that where these do not prove unsuccessful, fuming with Cinnabar is by no means to be attempted. It is used with less danger for stubborn venereal Ulcers, that lie remote from the Head and Throat. This Powder, when used, is to be cast into a Chafingdish of live Coals, and the Fume to be received, and this to be repeated at different times, until the Mouth gins to be sore, then is to be discontinued.  
Women troubled with Suppression of their Menstrua's, and labouring under hysteric Passions, may sit over the Fumes of fit and appropriate Pomanders: to slaken and dissolve the sluggish gross Humours that stagnate or circulate but very slowly in the Womb-Vessels.  
Some Asthmaticks also receive Fumes and Smoke at the Mouth and Nose, to cut and attenuate the thick and viscous Phlegm that obstructs; but this method ought not to be recommended to such as have spit Blood, or have Ulcers in the Lungs.   

D. Brunis' Collyrium, or Eye-water.  
℞. Aloes Succotrine 1 Dram, white Wino and white Rose-water of each an Ounce and a half; after they have stood some days, filtrate the water and keep it for use.   

Madam Fouquet's Eye-water.  
℞. Prepared Tutia 2 Ounces, Mace finely powdered 1 Ounce, white Vitriol 1 Dram, Fennel and Rose-water, of each a pint, and half a pint of Plantain-water; mix them together, and expose them for some days to the Summer Sun in a well-stoped bottle, then keep the Collyrium for use.  
These Collyrium's are of good use in infirmities of the eyes; they deterge and dry small Ulcers, cure Redness and Inflammations, and either entirely consume Webs and Pins, or check their growth.   

A Water to preserve the Eyes against the Small Pox.  
℞. Oriental Saffron 1 Scruple, infuse it for three hours in an Ounce and a half of Rose, Plantain, and Eye-bright-waters, dissolve-sixteen grains of the medicamental Stone in the filtrated Liquor.  
This clears the sight, and by drying and consuming the filthy sharp Ichor of the Small Pox, hinders its making an impression upon the eyes.   

℞. Orpine two Drams, Verdigreece one Dram, Myrrh, Aloes of each a Dram, dissolve all finely powdered in a pint of white Wine, and six Ounces of Plantain and Rose-water.  
This is used in Injection to cleanse and dry Ulcers in the Urethra, and to stop run or a Gleet, the Virulency being corrected by precedent proper Medicines. It may be weakened by addition of a greater quantity of Plantain-water.  
Notwithstanding what many famous Physicians and Chemists have writ in commendation of red Coral, Mr. Lemery pretends, that they are not to be preferred to other Alcaline bodies, whose whole virtue consists in dulling Acids, by destroying their sharp points, or sheathing their cutting edges: and says the so much famed Tincture of Coral, is owing altogether to an inconsiderable quantity of worthless Bitumen contained in that mixture and concludes that white Coral is every whit as good as the red.   

Rob of Speedwell.  
℞. Depurated juice of Speedwell 2 pound, Sugar or clarified Honey 1 pound; let them boil on a slow fire in an earthen glazed vessel to the consistence of Honey.  
Speedwell or Fluellin is recommended by many good Practitioners, as an extraordinary purifier of the Blood, and healer of Ulcers in the Lungs. Doctor  of Hartfordshire is a great admirer of it, as having often used it with good success.  
The French Acacia is made as the Germans make their juice of Sloes inspissated in B. M. It is substituted for the true Acacia.  
Lotions and boiling deprive Turpentine of a great part of its essential Salts, and consequently of much of its virtues; wherefore it is better to mix it with opening Powders, viz. Millepedes, crystal Mineral, etc. to give it the consistence chief designed in boiling it.  
Because chemical Oils and Essences do n●… dissolve in, nor mix with Water through the disproportion of the Texture of their minute parts with this Menstruum, they are mixed with Sugar, wherein they divide themselves into imperceptible parts; and this Intermedium readily dissolving in water, keeps the Oils and Essences so divided, that though they make the Liquor look somewhat more white, they can never unite so as to appear what they were. There is no need of Sugar to make these Essences mix with Spirit of Wine or other sulphureous Liquors, for here being a conformity of Texture, they readily unite.  
Here followeth the description of a Drug sold for the juice of Liquorish, tho' it is nothing but a Gum impregnated with a few parts of that root. The Adulteration is owing to Blois. In a decoction of Liquorice they dissolve a vast quantity of Gum Arabic grossly powdered, add a little Sugar, than filter the Liquor and evaporate it to a due consistence, which though thus sophisticated is much better for the Lungs than a great part of that called Spanish Liquorice, which being gritty and full of impurities, must be rather obnoxious than beneficial.  
The Ladies of Tours, much famed▪ for sweet Meats, make their Jelly of Currant thus. They boil 3 pounds of Sugar in common water to the consistence of Tablets, to which they then put four pounds of fair ripe Currants, and let them boil ten or a dozen Wambles, until the Currants burst without being touched with a Spoon; then they pour them upon a hair sieve reversed, under which is placed an earthen Dish to receive the Jelly, which is said to be the best that is made in France.   

A purging Wine.  
℞. Cleansed leaves of Senna 6 drains, Hermodactyles, roots of Arum, dried Seeds of Violets, of each 2 drams; Agaric trochisked, choice Rhubarb, of each a dram and a half; Cinnamon 1 dram; let all be infused for 24 hours in a quart of white Wine, and then filtered to be kept for use.  
This Wine is proper for cold phlegmatic Constitutions; it may be used a considerable time: the dose is a glass in the morning fasting.   

A Febrifuge Wine.  
℞. Jesuits bark reduced into powder 2 Ounces, good white Wine 2 quarts; put them into a large Matrass, so that a third part remain empty; then having stopped the Vesselelose, shake it well, and put it for 24 hours in a sand bath or in some other moderate heat, stirring and shaking the mixture now and again; which done, pour off the Wine by inclination, leaving the mark or dregs at the bottom.  
As soon as the fit is over, let the patiented drink a glass of this Wine and repeat it every fourth hour. The more turbid and less clear he takes his Wine, the more effectual he will find it. For this reason, that the bark in substance being of greater efficacy than any known preparation of it; that which contains most of this substance, must work the greatest effects.   

A Steel Wine.  
℞. Opening Saffron of Mars prepared without fire 4 Ounces, Cinnamon, outward rind of bitter Oranges, of each 2 drams, Mace 1 dram, Saffron half a dram; infuse and let them stand to digest for 15 days in 2 quarts of good white Wine; then filter and keep the Wine for use.  
This Wine being an extraordinary aperitive, brings down women's Menses, opens the Obstructions of the Spleen and Mesentery; it may be taken from one to three Ounces, with a sufficient quantity of Sugar, or Syrup of opening roots to make it palatable.   

Wine called Hypocrate.  
℞. Refined Sugar reduced into powder, two pound and a half, sweet Almonds blanched and bruised 4 Ounces, Cinnamon grossly powdered one Ounce and a half; let all be mixed and put in infusion for 24 hours in 7 quarts of good Claret, and a pint of the best Brandy; then pass twice or trice through a Wine Sack, or through Hypocrates 's sleeve, and dissolve in the strained Liquor half a grain of Ambergreese, and the like quantity of Musk.  
This Wine warms the Stomach, and helps Digestion, yet is oftener taken for Pleasure than as Physic. It is called Hypocrate, either because Hypocrates invented some such Liquor, or that it is strained through such a cloth as he used in his Filtrations. This is different from common preparation.   

The compound Claret water.  
℞. Cinnamon, Mace, Cloves, of each 1 Ounce, Galangale half an Ounce, lesser Cardamons, Aromatick-reed, of each 2 drams; Ginger half a dram, Sugar powdered eight Ounces, Brandy one quart, leave them to digest together for 24 hours, than filter the liquor three or four times through Hypocrates ' s sleeve and put it up for use.  
This water being a Tincture of the Aromatic Ingredients sweetened with Sugar, helps Digestion, expels Wind, and is a good cordial Water; it will be purgative if you dissolve a dram of Resin of Jalap and Scammony in it; and Emetic, if you infuse an Ounce of Crocus metallorum in it for four or five days.   

A purging Ale.  
℞. Roots of Polypodie of the Oak 1 pound, Monk's Rhubarb, leaves of Senna, stoned Raisins, sliced Rhubarb and horseradish, of each three Ounces; leaves of Garden Scurvygrass and Sage, of each four handfuls; sliced Oranges number four; infuse them in 5 or 6 Gallons of Ale, when it is working.  
This purges mildly by Stool and Urine, it is given in the Scurvy, Gout, Rheumatisms, Defluxions of thin saline Humours to purify the mass of Blood, is continued for a fortnight or three weeks to be drunk in the morning.   

Ratafia of Cherries.  
℞. Depurated juice of Cherries 6 quarts, juice of Currants and Raspberries, of each 3 pints, good brandy 5 quarts; infuse in these for two days 2 pound of Kernels or broken Stones of Cherries, 8 pound of refined Sugar; powdered Coriander-seed, Cinnamon, Cloves grossly powdered, of each an Ounce and a half; let them be stirred and shook together to the perfect dissolution of the Sugar, then strained through Hypocrates ' s steeve and bottled.  
This Liquor is much in fashion now in France, and is differently prepared according to the different fancies and palates of those that make it. This preparation comes short of none, either for taste or goodness, and is abundantly better than the common Cherry-water, which loses much of the strength of the Brandy in being set so long in the Sun as is usual.   

Ratafia of Clove-gilly-flowers.  
℞. Flowers of red single garden Finks, well picked and cleansed from the green hereby part 2 pounds; infuse them for 8 days in 10 quarts of very good Brandy, in a close stopped Vessel; let the Infusion be filtrated with a slight expression; then put to it 7 pound of fine Sugar, Peach and Apricock Kernels a little bruised, of each one dozen; Cinnamon 1 Ounce, Cloves grossly powdered half an Ounce; let them stand for 6 days together, shaking them sometimes, that the Sugar may be entirely dissolved; then strain the Liquor through a woollen cloth or Wine sack, until it appears fine and clear fit to be bottled for use.  
This Ratafia is much stronger than the former, because the Brandy is not weakened by the addition of so great a quantity of juices, as the other is. Some to have a deeper Tincture put into the infusion 7 or 8 Ounces of the flowers of Corn-Poppies dried in the Sun.   

Ratafia of Kernels or Kernel-water.  
℞. Peach and Apricock Kernels beaten in a Mortar, of each a pound and a half, Cinnamon 1 Ounce, Cloves and Corianderseeds grossly powdered, of each half an ounce; fine powdered Sugar 2 pound and a half; infuse the whole in five quarts of good Brandy in a close stopped Vessel for 20 days; then let the Liquor be filtered until it becomes clear, than bottle and lay it up for use.  
Some who think this Ratafia too strong, weaken it with the juice of Apricocks, other with the expression of Muscadine-Raisins, and some perfume it with Musk and Ambergreese.  
Some Ladies put in the Kernels whole, because when they beat them, they find the water thick and heavy; but this fault is corrected by repeated Filtrations, through a Wine Sack, and the beaten Kernels load the Menstruum more. The mixture must be often shook whilst in digestion.   

A preparation of Verjuice.  
℞. Sugar-candy 2 ounces, roch Alum, Magistery of Bismuth, prepared Porcelain Shells, of each an ounce; Salt of glass 3 drams; these being powdered, mixed, and put into a glass bottle, pour on six quarts of distilled Verjuice; then stop the bottle, and let it stand in the Sun for 15 days, stirring and shaking it often, then let it be filtered and kept for use.  
This preparation of Verjuice is recommended to smooth, whiten and preserve the complexions of Ladies. It takes away Freckles, Morphew, and Sun-burning.   

A preparation of Oxgall.  
℞. Sugar-candy 2 ounces, Roch-Allum half an ounce, Borax and Salt of glass, of each 3 drams; powder all and put them into a glass bottle; pour upon them 3 quarts of distilled Oxgall; stop the bottle and expose it for 15 days to the Sun, shaking it often, then filter the liquor and keep it for use.  
This has much the same virtues with the other, but is somewhat more detersive and cleansing.   

A Conserve of the roots of Enula Campana.  
℞. Roots of Enula Campana what quantity you please, boil them in fountain water, to a due softness, than mash and pulp them through an inversed Sieve. Let the Decoction be boiled over a gentle fire, with a double weight of Sugar to the root, to the consistence of a solid Electuary; and when it grows a little cold, add the pulp and put it up for use.  
This Conserve is of good effect in Asthmas, because it consists of sulphurous saline parts, proper to incide and attenuate the gross Phlegm that is impacted to the Lungs.  
The Conserve of Violets is somewhat loosening by reason of sharp Salt enveloped in its mucilaginous and slimy parts. The Ancients preferred the stolen Conserve of Roses to the fresh made; because the first had fermented more, and had therefore its parts more lose and disengaged.  
Some sprinkle their Roses with a few drops of Vitriol, which rarifying and dividing the parts that yield the colour, render the Conserve much more beautiful. He makes a Conserve of the tops of Parsely, of the roots of Enula Campana, and of the roots of Althaea, to be used in Distempers of the Lungs.  
Before Sugar was so common as now, Honey was much in use, and is still on several accounts preferred to Sugar. It purges more in glisters, deterges and cleanses Wounds better; for which reason it is mixed with Digestives, unites and preserves the great Compositions of Treacle and Mithridate much better than Sugar would do.  
The Honey of Dauphiné, Languedoc and Narbonne is commended beyond all other, because those Provinces abound in flowers of Thime, Rosemary, Violets, Lilies of the Valleys, and other odoriferous Plants from which this Balsam of life is gathered, for Democritus was of opinion, that the best method to prolong life was to moisten the inwards with Honey, and to anoint the outward parts with Oil. Yet such as are of a bilious hot Constitution, aught to forbear the use of it, because it is apt to change into Choler the too great heat of the Bowels, turning it bitter as Sugar, liquorice, and other sweet things when boiled too long acquire that taste.   

Honey of Tabaco.  
℞. Depurated juice of Tabaco, and common Honey equal parts, let them boil to the consistence of a Syrup.  
This Oil purges violently; it is used in Glisters for Apoplectic and Lethargic Patients. Syrups being but liquid Conserves, the Syrup of Maidenhair may be very well made of the Conserve of Maiden hair brought from Canada; besides the Herb having fermented with the Sugar in that composition, it's more active parts are loosened and disengaged, and the more adapted for the Syrup which is thus made.  
Take a pound of Conserve of Maidenhair, infuse it in two quarts of warm water for four or five hours, than filter the Infusion with expression, and mix therewith three pounds of fine Sugar, and having clarified it with the white of an Egg, boil it to the consistence of a Syrup. There are some at Paris, that sell well clarified Sugar for this Syrup, which by reason of its more agreeable taste, takes with most Patients preferably to the genuine Syrup of Maidenhair.  
Mr. Lemery is much against Spice as corrective in the Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb, because they heat the body and clog the Menstruum, so that it cannot receive so many particles of the Rhubarb, as otherwise it would; whereas fixed Alkali salts, as that of Succory helps to draw a more saturate Tincture from the Rhubarb, and renders the Syrup considerably more deobstruent.  
He recommends soluble Tartar for a general corrective of purgers, because being a Salt, it is much more proper to attenuate and rarify viscous roapy Substances, that otherwise would be apt to adhere to the inward Membranes of the Bowels, and gripe in their passage.  
In the composition of the Syrup of Peach flowers, may be used the more tender leaves of the tree; and the Infusion of both is to be repeated, until they come out undiscoloured, than the Menstruum is as much impregnated as it can be from these Substances.  
The Syrup of dry Roses becomes of a much fairer colour, by adding to it when boiled to its due consistence; ten●… twelve drops of Spirit of Vitriol or 〈◊〉 Sulphur, or a dram and a half of the Spirit of Sugar or 2 ounces of the Syrup of Berberries or of Pomegranate.  
Experience teaches, that the surest corrective of the Syrup of Buck-thorn-berries is to eat soon after taking of it.   

Syrup of Scammony.  
℞. Choice Scammony grossly powdered 6 drams, Liquorice rasped and beaten 3 drams; infuse them for three days in a pint and a half of good Brandy; then filter the Tincture, add 2 pound of Sugar, and evaporate it into a Syrup.  
Diagridium Glycyrrhisatum is made after this manner. Half an ounce of sliced Liquorice being infused for 2 hours in 9 ounces of hot water, the Liquor is poured into an earthen glazed Pipkin upon 4 ounces of Scammony, and put upon a gentle fire until the moisture being consumed, the Scammony becomes solid and firm as before: this given from half a Scruple to a Scruple purges briskly without gripping in the least.   

Syrup of wild Saffron.  
℞. Seeds of wild Saffron bruised 4 ounces, leaves of Senna cleansed 1 ounce and a half, choice Rhubarb 6 drams, Agaric trochisked, and soluble Tartar, of each half an ounce, infuse them over hot embers for 24 hours in 3 pints of distilled Bugloss-water; then having boiled them a little, filter with expression. In the strained Liquor clarified by settling, and a second filtration, dissolve a pound and a half of refined Sugar, half a pound of solutive Syrup of Roses, and then boil them in a gentle heat to the consistence of a Syrup.  
This Syrup purges gently, and carries off a great quantity of Serosity, and may be used upon most occasions, where purging is proper, especially in Cachexies, Dropsies, and Rheumatisms, Melancholy, Mania, from half an ounce to an ounce and a half in white Wine or some aperient Decoction.   

Syrup of Spanish Broom corrected.  
℞. Depurate juice of Broom-flowers 3 pints, tops of keys of Ash and Fumitory, of each one pound; add to them Senna 4 ounces, Tamarinds 3 ounces, seeds of Violets beaten 2 ounces, Polypody of the Oak pounded 1 ounce and a half, Salt of Broom 1 ounce, let them macerate together for three days over hot Embers, then being boiled a little and strained, depurated and settling, and a second filtration, dissolve in it two pound of refined Sugar, a pound of the uncompound Syrup of Apples, and boil it over a gentle fire into Syrup.  
This Syrup is given with success to open Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, Mesentery and Matrix, it purges gently viscous and tenacious humours, the Original of Cachexies, Dropsies, Melancholy, and often of the suppression and irregularities of the Menses. It is a great purifier of the blood, may be taken alone, from half an ounce to two ounces, or mixed with distilled waters, white Wine or some appropriated Decoction.   

An Emetic Syrup.  
℞. Liver of Antimony finely powdered an ounce and a half, depurated juice of Quinces 1 quart, put them to digest over hot embers, for 6 days in a Matrass well stopped, shaking and stirring it often; then filter the liquor, and with a pound of refined Sugar boil it over a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup.  
This Syrup empties the Stomach of humours that are sometimes so obstinately fixed, as not to yield to purgatives, there is no preparation of Antimony that works with more gentleness, or with less trouble; but should it at any time prove rough and churlish in its operation, either fat broth or oil will in entangling and involving its keen edges abate the, irritation. It is given to all Ages and Sexes, proportioning the dose to the strength of the patiented: it may be taken alone or in white Wine broth or other convenient liquor, and it is sometimes mixed with Purgatives. The usual dose, when it is given alone, is from 6 drams to an ounce and a half.  
In the remarks upon the Syrup of Wormwood, we find this method of making a Syrup of Wormwood at pleasure without fire, viz. ℞. Wine of Wormwood and refined Sugar reduced into powder, of each equal weight, put a small quantity of Cinnamon-water to them, and shake all together to the entire dissolution of the Sugar. A good Tincture may be made thus; put what quantity you please of dry tops of Wormwood into a Matrass, pour on Spirit of Wine, until they are throughly humected, then stop the vessel, and leave them to digest 5 or six days, afterwards filter the liquor with expression, and when it has settled, strain it a second time: it strengthens the Stomach, helps Digestion, and provokes women's Ordinaries, being given from 6 drops to 30.  
Besides the Syrup of Verjuice, there is a water, which is nothing else but common water and Sugar put to the depurated or distilled Juice; and this will keep better, if you add a small quantity of Salt to it. It cools, refreshes, and provokes Urine.  
He makes a Syrup of the white of 8 Eggs beaten and dissolved in 3 pints of water, and boiled with 2 pounds of Sugar unto the consistence of a Syrup, to be used where mucilaginous Medicines are proper.   

The compound Magisterial Syrup.  
℞. Roots of common Orrice, Hermodactyles, of each 2 ounces, gummy Turbith, Mechoacan, Jalap, of each 1 ounce and a half; dwarf Elder and choice Rhubarb, leaves of Senna, soluble Tartar, of each an ounce; trochisk●d Agaric, Seeds of Violets, leaves of bastard Hedge-Hyssop, of each half an ounce; let all be pounded, then infused for 4 days in 2 quarts of good white Wine; filter the Tincture through Cap-paper, or through Hypocrates 's sleeve, and evaporate it upon a slow fire to the consistence of a Syrup. Then let the drugs that were infused be boiled in three quarts of common water to the consumption of a quart, and then being filtered, boil the liquor with 4 pound of good Sugar, and with 4 ounces of clarified Honey to the consistence of a Syrup, mixing exactly the above mentioned Tincture with it, as it boils to its due consistence.  
This Syrup purges briskly, and may be given with good success in hydropical and gouty cases. It is taken in white Wine in an appropriate decoction, or by itself, from half an ounce to an ounce and a half.  
They that mix Acids with their Syrup of Violets, as Spirit of Vitriol, Spirit of Sulphur, Juice of Citrons, etc. do, its true, heighten its colour, and render it more pleasant to the Palate, but this mixture soon occasions a Fermentation that turns the Syrup reddish and makes it keep the less.   

A strengthing Syrup.  
℞. Choice Rhubarb slieed 4 ounces, red Roses well picked and cleansed three ounces, white Tartar grossly powdered one ounce; let all infuse 24 hours in three quarts of steeled water over hot embers, then boil it a little, which done, strain the liquor from the gross Ingredients; add 4 pound of Sugar, clarify it with the white of an Egg, and boil it into a Syrup.  
This Syrup is highly commended to strengthen the Stomach, and to repair the impaired Tone of its Fibres. It is of good use in Diarrhoeas, Lienteries, and bloody Fluxes, in the overflowing of the Menses, Whites, troublesome Gleets, etc. It is taken fasting alone, or mixed with proper Decoctions from 1 to 2 ounces.  
The Syrup of Coral is found fault with, because the virtue of the Coral, which wholly consists in its absorbing Acids, is so much impaired by the sour Juice of Berberries, that it can dull but few peccant Acids in the body, the Pores wherein it might sheathe them, being already satiate. And most certainly to powder Coral very fine is the best way to prepare it for medicinal use.   

Syrup of Cinnamon.  
℞. Best Cinnamon grossly powdered half a pound, put it into a glass Cucurbit, and pour on it a quart of Sack; then place it in B. and having fitted a head and recipient, let it stand in Digestion 3 days, and then be distilled with a moderate fire to 8 ounces; when the Cucurbit is cold, take out the remainder, put a pint of common water to it, and boil it a little, than filter the liquor with expression, and having added 2 pound of refined Sugar, clarif●… it, and let it be boiled to the consistence of an opiate, mixing with it as it grows cold its spirituous water, and 6 drops of oil of Cinnamon.  
By this distillation you preserve the spirituous-volatile parts, that would be lost and by the boiling you have what is more fixed. After this method may be prepared Syrup of Cloves, Sassafras-wood, Anisa and Coriander Seeds, Mace, Juniper-berries, etc. It strengthens the Stomach, helps Digestion, provokes the Catamenia, and is good against a stinking breath, it may be taken to an ounce.  
The Syrup of white Poppies is not given in as large a Dose in Provence, Languedoc, and other hot Climates as with us, because they are more Narcotick there, than in our colder Country; their effect seems to proceed chief from their slimy glutinous substance, which in thickening their humours, stays Defluxions and takes off the Acrimony that often interrupts sleep; they stop the violence of coughing, and give great help to those that spit blood.   

Syrup of Quina Quinae, or Jesuits Bark.  
℞. Jesuits Bark, grossly beat half a pound, infuse it for 3 days over hot embers in two quarts of white Wine, then boil it gently to the consumption of a fourth part, than filter and add to the strained liquor 3 pounds of refined Sugar, clarify and boil it to a Syrup.  
It may be to 2 ounces in a glass of Centaury water.  
The Strawberry and Rasberry waters, sold by the Limonadiers at Paris are thus prepared: They mash the fruit in a Marble Mortar; then they add as much Sugar and water as is necessary to render the liquor clear and palatable; and having let it stand for some hours, they pour it several times out of one vessel into another; then they filter it through a woollen cloth, until it becomes clear, which when it does, they put it to cool in Ice.   

Syrup of Mucilages.  
℞. Seeds of Althaea, Mallows, Quinces, of each one ounce, Gumm Tragacanth, 3 drams, infuse them over hot Embers for 6 hours in a quart of Decoction of Mallow-seeds; of white Poppies, and Alkekengi-berries; then press out the Mucilage, and add to it a pound and a half of the best Sugar and boil it to the consistence of a Syrup.  
This Syrup is deservedly commended in diseases of the Breast, chief where sharp acrimonious and thin humours are to be stayed and allayed. It defends by its slimy Mucilage the Throat from the sharpness of Rheums, the Stomach from corrosive Humours and Medicines, and the Ureters and Urethra from sometimes scarce the insupportable Acrimony of the Urine.  
Syrupus Kermesinus without fire, may be made thus: beat grains of Kermes full ripe in a Marble Mortar, and mix with them a triple quantity of refined Sugar finely powdered; stir them often together, and leave them to digest in the cold ten or twelve Hours, then strain them with expression through a clean Linen Cloth; the filtered Liquor is the Syrup, and retains some Volatile parts that would be lost the ordinary way: Syrup of Lemons may be thus made, and a Syrup of Peach Flowers by beating and mixing in a Marble Mortar some Pounds of the Flowers with an equal weight of Sugar; as 4 Pound of each, putting half a Pint of Water to them, and stirring them together to the consistence of a Liquid Conserve, then cover an Earthen Pot glazed, with Linen or Taffeta, tie the Cloth round the Brim, that it may bear down in the middle, where put the Conserve; cover it with another Cloth, and place the Pot in a cold Cellar; the Liquor that will drop into the Pot is the Syrup, what remains being boiled in Water, and clarified, will make the common Syrup of Peach-Flowers.   

A Powder against Worms used by the Physicians of Paris.  
℞. Seeds of Tansey, common Wormwood, Purslain, Aloes, of each half an Ounce; choice Rhubarb, picked Senna, Corallina, dry tops of Scordium, of each 2 Drachms, powder all together.  
This Powder kills Worms, and carries them off, together with a nasty Slime; it also brings down Woman's Menstrua. It may be taken to half a Drachm in Syrup, Conserve, or in the Pulp of a roasted Apple The Semen contra vermes or Wormseed is less nauseous, wherefore it may be given Children without any addition.   

Mynsicht's Powder of Jalap.  
℞. The best and most resinous Root of Jalap two Ounces and a half, crystal of Tartar half an Ounce, Oil of Cinnamon one Scruple, beat them into fine Powder.  
This Powder is given in Dropsies, ●urning and fixed Gouts, Rheumatisms, &▪ from one Scruple to four: Some call 〈◊〉 Pulvis Solutivus Tartarisatus.   

An Anti-epileptick Powder, common●… called Powder of Gutteta.  
℞. Roots of Male Peony, Misletoe ●… the Oak, unburied Human Scull, Hoof of an Elk of each three Drachms, Seeds of Basil and of Peony, of each two Drachms; Flowers of Betony, Tyle, of each 4 Scruples; Powder of Diambra without Musk, one Drachm; Sugar of Roses equal weight to all the rest, or two Ounces six Drachms; ten Leaves of Gold; powder all according to art.  
Gutteta in the Languedoc Patois signifies, the Falling-Sickness, against which this Powder is of great efficacy, as also against Apoplexies and Palsies. It is usually given from half a Scruple to half a Drachm in Cephalick Waters. Children born in the Southern Countries are more subject to Worms, and consequently to Fits, than those born in the more cold and Northern Climates.   

A famous Anti-epileptick Powder.  
℞. Shave of a Man's Scull dead of a violent Death, Livers and Hearts of Vipers, Elke's-hoof, of each five Drachms; Misletoe of the Oak, Roots of Peony, Valerian, Contrayerva, and White Amber, of each half an Ounce; Woman's After-burthen cleansed from its Membranes and dried, Bone taken out of a Deers Heart, Peacock's Dung, of each three Drachms; Cinnabar of Antimony and Volatile Salt of Hartshorn, of each one Drachm; powder all according to art.  
This Composition consists of choice and appropriate Ingredients, and may be preferred to any yet publicly known, not only against Epilepsies but against Convulsions of any kind. It may be taken by Women without danger of raising Vapours a whole Month without intermission, in Syrup of Peony or some appropriate Conserve, in Cephalick Waters or Decoctions.   

An extraordinary Powder against Dysenteries.  
℞. Root of Ipecacuanha two Ounces, Yellow Myrabolans, choice Rhubarb, of each three Drachms; Seeds of Meadow Rue two Drachms; powder all according to art.  
This Powder Vomits, and works by Stool. It owes its chief virtue to the Ipecacuanha, the best and most Sovereign Remedy now known against Dysenteries and other Belly Fluxes. It was brought into France in 86 by one Helvetius a young Dutchman, and held a great Secret until the King purchased it for his Soldiers, and afterward charitably published it for the public good. Being at Paris that Summer, I do remember the College Physicians did what lay in them to hinder the use of this Remedy, would not allow trial to be made of it at L'Hotel dieu or other Hospitals, tho' a great number died daily of a Dysentery that was very rife that Season, until the King hearing that Fluxes began to sweep away a great many of his Swiss that were at work at Marli, sent absolute Orders it should be tried in the City Hospitals. Then the Physicians delegated two of their number to attend Helvetius, hear what Questions he asked, see what he gave, and the Success; who observing that his Powder did only vomit and purge, mixed emetic Tartar and Rhubarb, which curing two or three slight Dysenteries, they concluded, the Secret was some such common Mixture, but further trial soon disabused them, and made them own, they knew nothing comparable to his, which seldom fails if timely given, or unless the Patient is diseased in his Lungs, under considerable decay, Hydropic, disordered in his Head, has a Hiccough, vomiting pains, in the lower Belly, accompanied with Stools resembling the washing of Flesh and smelling like Carrion. Gulielmus Piso in his Medicina Brasiliensis describes two sorts of Ipecacuanha, one a thick stringy white Root, called by the Portuguese, Ipecacuanha Blancha, to distinguish it from the other, it is the milder of the two; and may be safely given to  Women and to Children; the other is a small crooked knotty Root, of a darkish colour, of an ungrateful, bitter, hot, and acrimonious taste. It is given in Powder to a Drachm, in Infusion to about two Drachms; the Natives use the Infusion most. The Powder that has stood in Infusion is not to be despised, for tho' it purges but weakly, it is a very good Astringent and Strengthener of the relaxed Fibres of the Stomach and Guts. Georgius Marogravius in his Historia rerum naturalium Brasiliae, says, That this Root is not unlike Tormentil in Colour, that it has a white Pith in the middle, easily separable from the other part; says, that when it is fresh it has a very bitter biting taste; and adds, that a Drachm or two of its Powder steeped all Night in a Mixture of Wine and Water, slightly boiled in the Morning, the Infusion filtered and drunk, is not only an excellent Remedy in Dysenteries, obstinate Obstructions, and Disaffections of the Stomach, but also a great resister of Poison. I have dwelled the longer upon this Root because it gins to be pretty much prescribed now with us, and will not fail of growing into greater use.   

A Powder to help Digestion.  
℞. Sweet Fenil-Seeds, Annis-Seed, and Coriander-seed, of each an Ounce and a half; Cinnamon, outward Rind of Citron and Orange, of each three Drachms; Cloves and Rhubarb of each one Drachm, Sugar-candy eight Ounces; powder all according to art.  
This Powder helps Digestion, creates an Appetite, strengthens a weak, cold Stomach, expels Wind. It will correct the noisome Steams of the Stomach and Lungs, and so sweeten stinking Breath if a few Grains of Ambergrise be added. It may be taken to two Drachms.   

Hartman's Simple Cachectick Powder.  
℞. Of the opening Saffron of Mars half an Ounce, Cinnamon or Cassia Lignea one Ounce and a half, Sugar-candy two Ounces; reduce all into Powder.  
It is given to raise Obstructions, and is commended against the Retention and Irregularities of the Menses, Jaundice, and all manner of ill habits of Body proceeding from, or fomented by want of due Secretions. It is taken from half a Drachm to two Drachms, and continued a considerable time; the Patient must walk and exercise during its use.  
At Toulouse and in several other places about it are found Bodies still entire that have been buried two hundred Years ago, but it is observable that Lime has been formerly kept in the Cellars wherein they are found; they appear so little altered, that many are seen with their Beards. It is also observable, that Embalming succeeds better in hot than in colder Countries, because the Moisture of Vaults in cold Climates makes the Drugs give and run, whereas in those that are warmer, the Earth being dry, and abounding more with Salt, helps to preserve Bodies from Corruption. In hot Countries are also sometimes found dead Bodies on the Seacoasts, which being salted by the Sea-water, and afterwards dried by the Sun may be used for Mummy.   

A Powder that hastens the Birth.  
℞. Cinnanton, Cretan Dittany, Saffron, Borax, of each two Drachms; Trochisces of Myrrh one Drachm, Savine half a Drachm; reduce them into Powder.  
It quickens Labour, brings on the Pains, and expels the After-burthen. It may be also given with success to bring down the Menstrua. The Dose from 15 Grains to two Scruples in White-wine or Mugwort Water.   

A Diuretic Powder.  
℞. River Crab's-Eyes, the stony Bones found in the Heads of Pearches, and lesser Whiting, dried Cheslops or Hogs-lice, Goat's Blood prepared, and Seeds of Gromel, of each an Ounce; powder them for use.  
This Powder is aperitive, proper in Nephritick colics, stoppages of Urine from slimy Gravel, etc. It is given to a Drachm in White-wine, or in an appropriate opening Decoction.   

The Solutive Powder of Sarsaparilla.  
℞. Sarsaparilla an Ounce and a half, Leaves of Senna one Ounce, Hermodactyles, Turpethum, Jalap, of each half an Ounce; Diagrydium and white Tartar of each two Drachms, Olibanum and Annis-seed of each one Drachm; reduce them into Powder according to art.  
This Powder purges serous watery Humours, is used not only in Dropsies, Suppression of the Menses, Sciatica's, and such like Distempers, but also to carry off by Stool and Transpiration the Dregs of an inveterate Clap or Pox; it is given from one Scruple to sour.   

℞. Warts that grow on the inside of Horses Legs taken off in the Spring, one Ounce; Assafaetida, Horn and Hoof of a Goat, of each one Drachm; reduce them into powder.   

The Dukes Compound Powder.  
℞. Cinnamon two Drachms, Ginger, lesser Galangal, Cloves, Nutmegs, Cardamons, Cubebs, long Pepper, of each one Scruple; Saffron half a scruple, Sugar-candy half a Pound; reduce them into powder.  
This Powder rarefies and dissipates gross viscous Humours that adhere to the inner Coat of the Stomach and hinder Digestion. The simple Powder consisting of half an Ounce of Cinnamon, and half a Pound of Sugar-candy is more palatable than this, but is not of equal efficacy; the Seeds of Wild Carrot, Gromel, Sweetfennil, Parsley, and such like other with Juniper Berries, Leaves of Cretan Dittany, Powder of the Roots of Florence Orrice may be added to the Compound Powder to extend its Virtue to expel Wind and Gravel, and to make it more convenient in Nephritick colics. These Powders may be made up into an Electuary with a convenient quantity of Sugar or clarified Honey.   

An Ophthalmick Powder.  
℞. White Sugar-candy two Drachms, prepared Tutty one Drachm, Aloes, Salt of Saturn, White Vitriol, Sarcocolla, of each half a Drachm, Florence Orrice half a Scruple.  
This Powder is blown into the Eyes to cleanse them from Filth and Corruption, to dissipate Cataracts and consume outward Films.   

The Grey Imperial Powder against the Plague.  
℞. Roots of Burnet, Gentian, Tormentil, Serpentwort, Juniper Berries, Leaves of Rue and Wormwood, of each one Ounce; Castoreum half an Ounce; reduce them into Powder according to art.  
This Powder is given in Malignant Fevers, and as well to cure as preserve from Infection in time of Pestilence from ten Grains to two Scruples. It may be made into Pills with equal parts of Treacle and Vinegar of Roses, and a Paste of beaten Nuts; or with Treacle, Mithridate, and a little quantity of Spirits of Wine. There is a red powder designed for the same end with this, it contains besides these Ingredients, , Brimstone, Zedoary, Ginger, Cretan Dittany, Hartshorn, Myrrh, Camphire, and Saffron; it may be made into Pills as the other; both so made are called Plague Pills.   

The Golden Powder.  
℞. Opening Saffron of Mars, refined Sugar, of each two ounces; Cinnamon and Galangal, of each half an ounce; Annis-seed two drachms, four leaves of Gold; reduce them into powder.  
This Powder opens Obstructions, provokes the Menses, and cures pale Complexions; it will be convenient to walk upon the taking this or any other Cachectick Remedy, to promote its distribution. It is given from a Scruple to a Drachm.   

Powder of Ashes corrected.  
℞. Ashes of the Herb Kali and Roots of Colewort, of each three drachms; Seeds of Stone Parsley, Marsh-mallows, black Pepper, tops of , of each a drachm and a half; sweet Flag, prepared Goat's Blood, Scorpions and dried Eggshells, of each one drachm; mix and reduce them to powder.  
This Powder is given to cleanse the Kidneys and Bladder from Gravel and troublesome roapy Mucus, that sometimes obstructs the urinary passage.   

A Carminative Powder.  
℞. Cummin and Annisseeds of each three ounces, white Ginger six drachms, Mace three drachms, and Oriental Saffron one drachm; reduce all into very fine powder.  
This Powder is proper in the Wind Colic, and does help Digestion: It may be taken immediately after Meals from half a drachm to a drachm and a half.  
This Powder consisting of. Salino-Sulphureous Volatile Parts, is therefore proper to open the Obstructions of the Matrix, part thereof being cast upon Coals and the Fumes received in the lower parts through a Funnel. It also helps Women subject to Fits, and is a quick Remedy and much relied on in Suffocations of the Womb.  
A drachm and a half of Red Roses well dried infused in three ounces of dulcified Spirit of Vitriol, yield a most beautiful Red. This Spirit is given in Diarrhaea's, Lienteries, and in Bloody Fluxes, in overflowings of the Menses, vomiting, spitting of Blood, and all manner of Hemorrhagies. It is also mixed to a grateful Acidity in appropriate Liquors in Fevers.   

Powder of Steel used by the Physicians of Paris.  
℞. Filings of Steel prepared two ounces, Cinnamon six drachms, Myrrh, roots of Birthwort, and the greater Madder, tops of Time, Wild-marjoram, Feverfew, Mountain Calamint, Penyroyal, Mugwort, Hyssop, Horehound, Balm, Mint, Pimpernel, Betony, Savine, of each two drachms; Seeds of Lovage, Rue, Parsley, great Cummin, of each a drachm and a half; Mace two Scruples; reduce all into powder to be kept for use.  
This Powder opens gently obstructions of the Bowels, and is therefore a good Remedy against the Green-sickness, Cachexies, Jaundice, and a coming Dropsy; it kills Worms, brings down the Menses: It is given from a Scruple to a Drachm made into Pills.   

A Hand Powder.  
℞. Dregs or Cakes of bitter and sweet Almonds, Rice flower, of each six ounces; Roots of Florence Orice and prepared white Chalk, of each one ounce, Benzoin, Sperma ceti, Salt of Tartar, of each two drachms, Oil of Rhodian Wood half an ounce; reduce them into powder.   

A Powder against a Pleurisy.  
℞. Prepared Goats Blood one ounce, powder of Vipers, Antimonium diaphoreticum, flowers of Corn Poppies, prepared Crab's-eyes, Boar's-tooth, seeds of Carduns Benedictus, Olibanum, of each one drachm; reduce them into powder.  
This Powder absorbs the Acids that fix and stagnate the Blood, so helps to give it its due circulation, and to throw off by transpiration the hostile matter.   

The Imperial Powder.  
℞. Cinnamon ten drachms, Ginger one ounce, Cloves half an ounce, lesser Galangal, Mace, Nutmegs, of each two drachms, Musk ten grains.  
This helps Concoction, expels Wind, corrects the noisome Steams of the Stomach and ill smell of the mouth.   

Powder of Cinnabar.  
℞. Native Cinnabar prepared half an ounce, shaving of an Elks Horn three drachms, Man's Skull, Misletoe of the Oak, of each two drachms; dry roots and seeds of Peony of each a drachm and a half, powders called Diamoschi and Diambra of each one drachm, Oriental Saffron, and volatile Salt of Amber, of each one scruple; powder all.  
This is used as other Anti-epileptick Powders against the Falling-sickness and other Convulsions: It is taken from one scruple to two.   

Powder of Turbith with Rhubarb corrected.  
℞. Gummy Turbith two ounces, choice Rhubarb ten drachms, Hermodactyles one ounce, Diagrydium, Crystals of Tartar and Violet seeds, of each half an ounce; reduce all into powder: That may be given to a drachm.   

Mort's Sudorific Powder.  
℞. Roots of Contrayerva five drachms, roots of Valerian, Masterwort and Angelica of each half an ounce, leaves of blessed Thistle, Crabs-eyes and Mussel-shells prepared, of each two drachms; Saffron four scruples, Camphire two scruples, Laudanum half a drachm; reduce them into powder.  
This Powder is a good Sudorific, and is therefore successfully used in malignant and intermitting Fevers; it abates Hysterick Vapours; it is given from a scruple to a drachm.   

Trochisks of Ramich correct.  
℞. Cypress Nuts, Myrtle Berries, Gum Arabic, of each an ounce and a half, red Roses, yellow Saunders, of each ten drachms; Sumach, shave of Ivory, of each one ounce, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, of each half an ounce; Camphire four scruples; powder all and mix them into a Past with the inspissated Juice of Sorrel, and form Trochisks according to art.  
They are given to a drachm in Fluxes and Hemorrhagies, and in all other cases where Astriction is proper: They are to be finely powdered, and to be mixed with Astringent Waters or Decoctions, and to be taken at a distance from Meals.   

Trochisks for a Gonorrhoea.  
℞. Bole Armene two drachms, prepared Amber, shave of Ivory, of each one drachm and a half, Seeds of Plantain four scruples, Agnus Castus, Lettuce, flowers of pomegranate and red Roses of each one drachm, Wood of Sassafras two scruples: let all be powdered and mixed with Mucelage drawn from the seeds of Quinces in the Water of Nymphea or Water Lily, and let them be made into Trochisks.  
A drachm of these Trochisks may be dissolved in eight ounces of Plantain Water, and an ounce of Honey of Roses added for an Injection; but neither this nor any other Astringent is ever to be used until the Virulency is carried off by Stool and Urine, and the running appears white and of a due consistence. To use any sooner is a certain way to lodge the Infection and give the Pox.   

Trochisks of pomegranate Flowers.  
℞. pomegranate flowers one ounce, red Roses, Bole-armene, Gum Arabic, of each half an ounce, true Acacia three drachms; powder and mix them all with a sufficient quantity of the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted in Rose Water, than form the Trochisks.  
These are used as the former, and may be given where it is convenient to bind, as in all Hemorraghies, Belly Fluxes, in the Diabetes, Diseases of the Breast caused by Defluxions, for they thicken Humours and qualify Acrimony.   

Escharotick Trochisks.  
℞. Corrosive Sublimate, Minium, equal parts, with a sufficient quantity of the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, that thence may be formed hard and stiff Trochisks.  
These are used for making Escars, and to consume proud Flesh and Excrescencies about the Anus from illicit and preposterous Coition; they are also applied to Venereal Cancers, Scrofulous tumors, they do not spread, and are quick in operating.   

Trochisks of Arsenic.  
℞. White Arsenic four ounces, Corrosive Sublimatte half an ounce; powder both, and form them into Trochisks with the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth.  
These Trochisks are used as the former and being applied whole or in Powder to Corns consume and eat them away. The Arsenic contains a very corrosive Salt, which being enveloped in a great quantity of Sulphur would disengage itself, but slowly without the addition of the corrosive Sublimate. Tho' this Compound is an extraordinary Caustick, yet it doth not cause great pain because the Sulphur of the Arsenic and Mucilage of the Gum do in a great measure curb the Salts, and check their motion, involving their points in the branchy parts of the one, and slimy roapy particles of the other.   

Trochisks to be used in a Diabetes.  
℞. Myrtle Berries, seeds of Wood Sorrel, of each three ounces; Gum Arabic, pounded Wheat-flower, of each an ounce; reduce them into powder, and make them into Trochisks with a sufficient quantity of Mucilage of Fleawort seeds.  
These are said to strengthen the Sphincter of the Bladder, and thicken the Serum of the Blood, which makes them not only proper in a Diabetes, but also fit to be given in appropriate astringent Decoction in Hemorrhagies occasioned by over-thin and sharp Blood; on the other hand, Aloes being a provoker of the Menstrua in thinning and inciding the Blood, and opening the Womb Vessels, is not to be given in the cases before mentioned.   

Trochisks of Enula Campane.  
℞. Dried roots of Enula Campane two ounces, flourr of pounded Wheat, Gum Tragacanth, Gum Arabic, root of Florence Orrice, Magistery of Sulphur, of each two drachms, flowers of Corn-poppy a drachm and a half, flowers of Benzoin one scruple, Balsam of Sulphur annisated ten drops, with a sufficient quantity of Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth drawn in Corn Poppy-water; form Trochisks to be dried in the shade.  
These are used in inveterate Coughs and Asthmas; they incide and attenuate tough roapy Phlegm, and facilitate its Expectoration; they are taken from a scruple to a drachm.   

Trochisks of Orrice.  
℞. Roots of Florence Orrice, white Pepper, and Gum Armoniac, of each half an ounce.  
These attenuate and dissolve viscid Humours, and facilitate their Expectoration; they are also proper to open Obstructions of the Spleen and Womb, and to cure pale Complexions: They may be taken from half a drachm to four scruples.   

Mynsichi's Hydragogue Pills reformed.  
℞. Mineral Turbith half an ounce, Trochisks of Alhandal, roots of black Hellebore, of each three drachms; choice Rhubarb and Elaterium, of each two drachms; Saffron of Metals prepared with Salt of Wormwood one drachm, Spirit of Vitriol dulcified half a drachm; mix and make them into a Mass with Syrup of Buckthorn.  
This Pill purges and vomits with some violence; it is given in Dropsies, Mania's, the Pox, Scurvy, and King's Evil, and other like obstinate Distempers, from half a scruple to half a drachm. The Crocus Metallorum calcined, with an equal weight of Salt of Wormwood, and often washed with warm Water, is less vomitive than the common, because the fixed alkaline Salt has destroyed some of its irritating points. This preparation of Antimony often purges and causes sweat; it is given to eight grains.   

The Imperial Pills of the Physicians of Lions.  
℞. Extract of Aloes four ounces, Rhubarb one ounce, Mastic half an ounce, and with the Juice of Roses form a Mass of Pills.  
These Pills may be taken just before Meals, that the Salt of the Aloes being dulled by the particles of the Food may gripe the less. These Ingredients mixed with the Extract of Juniper-berries will make much such a Pill as Dr. Andersons.   

Bontius' Hydropical Pills.  
℞. Aloes Succotrine two ounces and a half, Gambogia well powdered dissolved in Malmsey and dried, one ounce and a half, Diagrydium prepared the same way one ounce, choice Gum Ammoniack one ounce and half, Tartarum Vitriolatum half an ounce; make them into a Mass with Solutive Syrup of Roses.  
The Tartarum Vitriolatum doth not only serve as an opener in this Composition, but also fixeth the salin emetic Sulphur of the Gum. Gut. and determines it to purge by Stool, which it doth with some vehemency. It is given from half a scruple to two, to purge off serous Humours, particularly in Dropsies, for the cure of which it was chief studied.   

Mercurial Pills.  
℞. Choice Rhubarb, Trochisks of Alhandal, Diagrydium, sweet Sublimate, of each one ounce, Venice Turpentine washed in its own distilled Oil a sufficient quantity to make them into a Mass for Pills.  
Tho' these Pills are properly designed against Venereal Distempers, yet they may be successfully given in the King's Evil, and in obstinate Rheumatisms. Mr. Lemery is of opinion, that they would prove more effectual in Venereal Distempers, if instead of the sweet Sublimate an equal quantity of crude Mercury be put, killed, as they call it, in Venice Turpentine; for this reason, that the Pores of the crude Mercury not being satiate as those of the sweet Sublimate are, they would load themselves with a greater quantity of the Venereal Venom, and carry it off either by Stool or Transpiration. They that shall like this reason may use the following Pills.   

Pills of Barbarosse corected.  
℞. Mercury well killed in a sufficient quantity of Venice Turpentine six drachms, Agarick trochisced half an ounce, choice Rhubarb two drachms; mix and make them into a Mass of Pills.  
In this the Spices are left out as being useless in the other common Prescription, and Turpentine is used instead of the Juice of Roses, it being scarce possible to kill the Mercury in this latter as Barbarosse directs. These Pills are given from a scruple to a drachm, and may be taken at Night going to Bed, or in the Morning fasting.   

Quercetan's Tartarous Pill reformed.  
℞. Succotrine Aloes four ounces, Cream of Tartar and yellow Myrobalans of each two ounces, picked Senna one ounce, roots of black Hellebore, Turbith, of each half an ounce; Salt of Wormwood and Ash of each two drachms; mix and make them into a Mass with the Syrup of Apples of King Sabor. The Dose from half a scruple to half a drachm.  
These Pills purge Tartarous heavy Humours and tough Phlegm; they are prescribed in Mania's, Hypochondriack Affections, and also in the suppression of the Menses.   

The greater Pills of Bdellium.  
℞. Best Bdellium one ounce and a half, Annis Seed three drachms, Myrobalans' yellow, Indian, Emblick, and Bellerick, Porcelain-shells burnt, Amber, of each two drachms and a half, with the Juice of Leeks make a Mass.  
This is given as an astringent to stop ●he overflowing of the Menses, Hemorrhodies, etc. There is a Pill called the lesser Pill of Bdellium; it consists of 15 drachms of Bdellium, and of 5 drachms of the Myrobalans mixed and made into Pills with Juice of Leeks.   

Pills of Gambogia.  
℞. Aloes Succotrine two ounces and a half, Gummi Gutta, Gum Ammoniack of each an ounce and a half, Rosine of Scammony one ounce, Tartarum Vitriolatum half an ounce; make them into a Mass of Pills with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Buck-thorn.  
Gambogia is of itself both Emetic and Purgative, but being mixed with the Tartarum Vitriolatum purges only by Stool▪ It is given from half a scruple to half a drachm, in which Dose it powerfully carries off watery humours without any considerable gripes.   

The Spa Pill.  
℞. Crystal of Tartar three ounces, Diagrydium half an ounce, Salt of Steel two drachms, with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth drawn in the Spaw-water: make Mass for Pills.  
This is called Spa Pill, not only because the Mucilage is extracted in Spaw-water, but chief because they that drink the Waters do often make use of it. Henricus ab Heer in his Spadacrene commends this Pill, and the Waters against many Distempers, especially Hemicrania's, Vertigoes, Obstructions, and even Scyrrhus's (if not inveterate) of the Liver and Spleen, and the Diseases springing thence, as Jaundice, Melancholy, Hypochondrianism, Dropsies, etc. as also against Gravel, Ulcers of the Kidneys, Caruncles in the Urethra and resembling Affections, Leprosy, Cancers and Scyrrhus' of the Womb, Fluxes, Sterility, Worms, etc. They may be given from a scruple to a drachm, and may be taken with good success by such as drink Tunbridge Waters.   

Pill. Rudii corrected.  
℞. Aloes succotrine one ounce, Trochisks of Alhandal six drachms, Agaricks, Scammony, roots of black Hellebore, Turbith, of each half an ounce; soluble Tartar three drachms, with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Buckthorn, make them into Pills.  
Mr. Lemery says, That when we evaporate our Tincture for the Extract we lose a great deal of the purging Particles of the Drugs in the exhaling Steams, and prefers the soluble Tartar for reasons mentioned before. There may be somewhat in this last Remark, but there is but very little in the other, for since the Pill made according to our Dispensatory works as well as any can do, and as strong as upon most occasions is required, what need we be concerned at the loss of some gross foetid Sulphurs, that in making the Pill stronger, would render it more rough and churlish in the operation. I have added this, to show upon what grounds some will correct and reform, as they call it, but must do Mr. Lemery Justice, he is generally civil to the London and to Bates' Dispensatory, from both which he has taken several Receipts, and gives them for the most part unalter'd, always quoting the Books, which he has forgot to do to others; especially to Charas, from whom he has borrowed considerably, but seldom mentions him.   

℞. Juice of Liquorice, Frankincense, of each half an ounce, Myrrh, best Saffron, Opium, of each four scruples; make them into a Mass of Pills with Syrup of Corn Poppies.  
These Pills thicken and allay thin sharp Humours, stay Defluxions, and cause Rest; they are given to a scruple in dry husking Coughs; a scruple contains two grains of Opium.   

Turpentine Pills.  
℞. Venice Turpentine boiled in Water of Radishes or of Pellitory of the Wall, four ounces; Liquorice finely powdered one ounce; mix them for Pills.  
℞. Good clear Turpentine four ounces, roots of Marsh-mallows dried and powdered, Crabs-eyes prepared, of each an ounce; purified Nitre and Hogs-lice prepared, of each an ounce; Salt of Amber two drachms; make them into-a Mass for Pills.  
In this last Preparation the Salt of Turpentine is preserved, part of which, in the former, is evaporated in the boiling, and part dissolved in the Water. The Powders also do better second the Intention of the Pills than Liquorice can do, but the Mass will hardly keep of due Consistence, especially in Summer. Both Pills are Diuretic, and are of good use to carry off Gravel, to cleanse the Kidneys and Bladder; they may be given in the beginning of a Gonorrhoea from one scruple to four. They loosen and carry off the Viscous and Tartarous Concretions that stop the urinary passages, and for that reason are helpful in suppressions of Urine.   

The Diuretic Pills of Clossaeus.  
℞. Venice Turpentine and white Vitriol reduced into very fine powder of each equal parts, mix into a Mass.  
Turpentine in this Composition checks and destroys the emetic quality of the Vitriol, for being wholly Viscous and Sulphureous, it does so entangle and embarass the volatile acid Salt of the Vitriol by its branchy parts, that it cannot sufficiently irritate or excite that kind of Convulsion wherein vomiting consists; but being carried with the Turpentine into the Mass of Blood, it incides and attenuates its gross roapy Serosities, and so proves a great Piss-driver. These Pills discharge the Reins and Ureters of gravelly and tenacious Concretions, and make the urinary passages slippery and easy.   

Astringent Pills to stop a Running or Gonorrhoea.  
℞. Mineral Diaphoretic, sealed Earth, Amber, Dragon's Blood, prepared Coral, binding Extract of Steel, of each half an ounce; red Roses, rinds of Granates, Mastic, Seeds of Meadow Rue, of each three drachms; Salt of Saturn four scruples, Opium one scruple, with a sufficient quantity of Turpentine half boiled, make them into a Mass.  
These Pills absorb and suck into their Pores the viscous saline Humour that gletes from the Vessels, and strengthens their relaxed Fibres. But whereas it often proves very difficult to stop inveterate run, especially where the parts affected have been much impaired by irregular living, hard riding, or other violent exercise we must second the Pills with proper Injections, with astringent fomentations on the Perineum, and with drying Diet-drinks, Tincture of Roses, in dulcified Spirit of Vitriol, etc. These Pills are to be taken twice a day for a considerable time.   

Le Mort's sweeting Pills.  
℞. Gum Guajacum one ounce, Extract of Contrayerva six drachms, Myrrh five drachms and one scruple, Saffron half an ounce, Camphire two drachms and two scruples, Laudanum Opiatum two scruples; mix them according to art into a Mass with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers.  
This Pill is commended against Poison and Infection; it eases pain, causes rest, and provokes Sweat, quiets the inordinate motion of the Blood and Spirits; it is given in malignant Fevers from a scruple to a drachm.   

Hysterick Pills.  
℞. Extract of Aloes prepared with the Juice of Mugwort ten drachms, Faeculas or Dregs of Bryony, choice Myrrh, Vitriol of Mars, Salt of Mugwort, of each two drachms, Castoreum, Camphire, leaves of Rue, of each two scruples; make them into Pills with the Juice of Mugwort.  
These Pills provoke the Menses, suppress Vapours, and carry off the Impurities of the Matrix; they are taken for several days together, the Dose not above half a drachm if they be continued for any time.   

Pills consisting of two Ingredients.  
℞. Trochisks of Alhandal, Scammony, of each equal parts; Syrup of Buckthorn Berries a sufficient quantity to make them into Pills.  
These Pills purge Phlegm and gross roapy Serosities; they are given in the Gout and Dropsies from eight grains to a scruple.   

Anti-epileptick Pills corrected.  
℞. Dried roots of Male Peony six drachms, fecules or dregs of Briony three drachms, mineral Cinnabar eight scruples, Castoreum, Amber, Solar precipitate, of each two drachms, leaves of black Hellebore, Oil of Antimony, of each four scruples, Oil of Angelica, Spirit of Vitriol, of each twenty drops; make them into a Paste with the Juice of Leeks.  
This Pill is given from half a scruple to half a drachm. The Solar Precipitate is made thus, one part of Gold cut small and five parts of Mercury are put into a Matrass into a Lamp-fire until they dissolve and become a red Calx.   

Anti-hypochondriacal Pills.  
℞. Succotrine Aloes half a pound, roots of black Hellebore one ounce, Hermodactyles, Gum Ammoniack depurated, Salt Armoniac sublimed with Mars, Vitriol of Mars, of each three drachms; make them into a Mass with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Buckthorn.  
This Pill purges the gross tartarous Humours that cause Obstructions in the Bowels, and send gross nasty Effluvia into the Blood that disorder its Circulation, and discompose the Brain; they may be given to two scruples or a drachm.   

Chalybeat Pills.  
℞. Best succotrine Aloes one ounce, opening Saffron of Mars five drachms, Scammony, Gum Ammoniack, of each half an ounce, Saffron, Tartarum Vitriolatum, of each a drachm and a half; make them into a Paste with Oximel of Squills.  
These Pills carry off tartarous and mucilaginous Humours, open Obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Matrix, and cure the Diseases that proceed from thence.   

Angelic Pills.  
℞. Extract of Aloes half a Pound, Rhubarb half an ounce, Agarick trochisked two drachms, Cinnamon one drachm; make them into a Mass with Syrup of Roses.  
These Pills require no regiment at all, they purge gently, may be taken at meals, or a little before eating, that the Aloes may gripe the less. They are given to a drachm.   

Pills of Savine.  
℞. Venice Borax, Mass of Pilulae Foetidae, of each one ounce and a half; leaves of Savine and Salt of the same six drachms, Juniper Berries and Essence of Savine, of each three drachms, Saffron one scruple; make them into a Mass with Syrup of Mugwort.  
These Pills provoke the Menses, dissolve the gross viscid Humours that obstruct the Womb Vessels, and clog the Blood, suppress Hysterick Vapours; they may be given to a drachm.   

Gout Pills.  
℞. Resin of Jalap half an ounce, Diagrydium, Rhubarb, of each four scruples; Tartarum Vitriolatum and Diaphoretick Mars of each one scruple; make them into a Mass with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Apples.  
This Pill is used in the running and fixed Gout, in Rheumatisms, old Aches and Pains; it may be taken from a scruple to a drachm. See the Preparation of Mars Diaphoreticus in the Third Edition of Lemery in English.   

Sweeting Pills.  
℞. Crystals of Tartar, Cinnabar of Antimony, of each six drachms, Myrrh and Aloes, of each three drachms; make them into a Paste with a sufficient quantity of Oil of Guajacum.  
These correct the Acids that fix the Blood, and hinder its Rarefaction, quicken the Circulation, and dispose the Serum to pass by the cuticular Glands; they are given from half a scruple to half a drachm.   

Schroder's Tartar Pills.  
℞. Best shining Aloes washed and impregnated with the Juice of Strawberries two ounces, Gum Ammoniack purged from all filth seven drachms, purging Magistery of Tartar dissolved several times in Bugloss-water and again coagulated half an ounce, Extract of Gentian three Drachms, Salt of Steel and Tincture of Saffron, of each two drachms, with Tincture of Tartar make them into a Mass.  
These Pills purge off the tartarous earthy Humours that create Obstructions in the Bowels, and are successfully used in Cachexia's, suppression of Menses, etc. The purging Magistery of Tartar consists of the fixed Salt of Tartar well satiate with distilled Vinegar, and then mixed with Spirit of Wine, which being twice or thrice distilled from it leaves this purging Magistery.   

Anodine Pills.  
℞. Laudanum half an ounce, Indian Pepper infused a whole Night in Vinegar and dried, two drachms; Saffron four scruples, Myrrh two scruples, Musk six grains; mix and make them into a Mass with Sack.  
These Pills are proper to stay Defluxions upon any part, procure Sleep, etc. but were chief designed against colics and Belly-fluxes; they may be taken to six Grains.   

Sweet scented Pills.  
℞. Best Syrian Storax one ounce, Benzoin half an ounce, root of Florence Orrice, Trochisks of Gallia Moschata, yellow Saunders, of each four scruples; Chemical Oil of Rosemary two scruples; mix and make them into a Mass with the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth prepared in Cinnamon-water.  
The use of this Pill is against a stinking loathsome Breath, which it corrects, being put into a hollow Tooth or otherwise held in the Mouth.   

Tablets of Manna.  
℞. Portuguese Manna one ounce and a half, refined Sugar one pound; make them into Tablets.  
These are pleasant to the taste, keep the Body soluble; they are most proper for Children, and such as are a verse to less grateful Physic.   

Treacle Tablets reformed.  
℞. Old Treacle one ounce, Balsam of Sulphur, seeds of Sorrel, Elk's hoof, roots of Enula Campana and Angelica, wood of Aloes, bone of a Deer's heart, white Amber; Camphire and Myrrh, of each one drachm; Oil of Cinnamon eight drops, refined Sugar one pound; mix them in a Marble Mortar, and with a sufficient quantity of Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth drawn in Carduus Water make a solid mass, of which form the Tablets.  
These Tablets strengthen the Noble Parts, resist the Infection of the Air; they may be taken in time of Sickness from one drachm to three.   

Emetic Tablets or Lozenges.  
℞. Emetic Tartar, Liquorice-rased Wheat-flower, of each two ounces; refined Sugar half a pound, with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth make Tablets of half a drachm each.  
These Lozenges both vomit, and purge by Stool, they are pleasant to the taste; if they should chance to work with too much violence, fat Broth or Oil of sweet Almonds will check it; two Tablets will prove a full Dose.   

Compound Tablets of Marsh mallows.  
℞. Pulp of Marsh-mallow-roots two ounces, seeds of white Poppies, powder of Florence Orrice, Liquorice, and of the powder called Diatragacanthum frigidum, of each three drachms; refined Sugar boiled in Rose water one pound, make Tablets according to art.  
These are used in inveterate Coughs and Asthmas, to cut and loosen the impacted Phlegm, and facilitate its Expectoration; they are held in the Mouth to dissolve slowly.   

Mort's purging Tablets.  
℞. Seeds of Zedoary, Corallina, of each three drachms; root of Jalap two drachms, Diagrydium one drachm, sweet Sublimate one scruple, best refined Sugar boiled in the Infusion of Tansy to the consistence of Tablets one pound, form the Tablets.  
They purge mildly, kill and expel Worms, hinder the corruption of Humours: They may be taken from a drachm to an ounce. The three last days of the Moon are made choice of in giving this and other Medicines against Worms, tho' no reason appears, why they should prevail then more than at any other time.   

Mercurial Tablets.  
℞. Mercurial Panacaea two ounces, sharp biting Cinnamon, Florence Orrice, Ginger, of each one drachm; fine Sugar four ounces, with the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth form a solid Mass, of which make your Tablets of a drachm weight each.  
They are to be chewed by those in whom it is difficult to raise a Salivation, the Ginger and Mace heat the Mouth, and open the salival excretory Ducts, and serve as a Vehicle to the Panacaea. The Salivation they raise when used alone is but slight, and may be stopped almost at pleasure by the use of an astringent Gargoyle.  
The Panacaea is sweet Sublimate thus prepared; Take what quantity you please of sweet Sublimate, beat it into fine Powder, put it into a Matrass upon a Sand-bath, lute on a Head; after it has stood in that heat an hour, augment the Fire by degrees until all is sublimed; then take it off, let the Vessel cool, then break it; powder your Sublimate again; and do all as before; repeat this seven times, then having reduced your Sublimate into fine Powder pour on it Spirit of Wine alkolized, four Fingers high, leave it to steep fifteen days, stirring it pretty often with an Ivory Slice; at last place it in Baln. M. draw the Spirit off, and dry your Panacaea in a Sand-fire. This is a most noble Medicine in wary Hands against all foulness of Blood, whether Venereal or Scorbutical, against Itch, Tetters, Scabs, Scald-heads. See a fuller account in the third English Edition of Mr. Lemery's Chemistry.   

Rotules of white Poppies.  
℞. Syrup of white Poppies newly made what quantity you please, and having boiled it to the consistence of a solid Electuary form the Tablet.  
They have the same virtue with the Syrup that is by their slimy Mucilage; they alloy the sharpness of thin corrosive Phlegm, hinder the too great expansion of the Spirits and the inordinate agitation of Humours.   

Mort's hot Philonium.  
℞. Annis, Fennil and Carraway seeds, of each five drachms, Cinnamon half an ounce, Ginger and Extract of Opium of each three drachms, Nutmegs two drachms, clarified Honey ten ounces; make them into an Opiate according to art.  
This tho' less compound than others of this name, yields to none in goodness; it eases Pain, resists the maliguity of Humours, and causes Rest; it is given from a scruple to a drachm.  
Some make an Extract of new made Treacle in Spirit of Wine, and call the Preparation Laudanum tutissimum; but old Treacle having in its longer fermentation subtilised and exalted its active parts more than the new, seems the fit to rarify and dissolve the Coagulations caused in the Blood, and Humours by the bite or sting of Venomous Beasts coagulating Poisons, infected Air, or a too great quantity of Acids accumulated in the Body.  
He commends the Apothecaries of Paris for leaving out Silk in their Confectio Alkermes, asserting, that neither wrought, nor raw Silk can communicate the least virtue to that or any other Composition. But Dr. Lister could inform him otherwise, and tell him as he did Dr. Turnfort, That Silk yields a noble Spirit, the finest, he says, that ever was tasted, with an incredible quantity of Volatile Salt, which being refined and often cohobated with rich Aromatic Chemical Oils, he thinks makes that called King Charles' Salt. However Silk being a dry Jelly of the Insect kind, which for the most part consist of extreme active parts, is not so despicable for physical uses as Mr. Lemery and Zwelfer would insinuate.  
Among the Remarks made upon Electuarium de Ovo Quercetani, we have this method of preparing the Diaphoretick Sulphur of Gold, called by Chemists Potable Gold, or the true Tincture of Sol.  
Dissolve what quantity of Gold you please in Aqua Regalis, evaporate the Dissolution over a gentle Fire, and there will remain a Calx of Gold, which moisten into a Liquid Past with the Essence of Cinnamon; and having put the mixture in a Matrass, pour upon it Spirit of Wine tartarized until it appears an Inch over; then having stopped the Vessel very close, put it to digest until the Liquor seems fully tinctured, which done, pour it off and add new until the Spirit ceases to draw a Tincture, then mix the Dissolutions together and keep them for use.  
This Preparation is a Dissolution of some parts of the Substance of the Gold in the Sulphurs of the Cinnamon and of the Spirit of Wine; for if it were quite divested of its Sulphur, as some Chemists foolishly pretend the Calx could be never reduced into Gold again, which it easily can being well dried, and adding a small quantity of Borax to it.   

Mort's cold Philonium.  
℞. Red Roses one ounce, Cassia Lignea six drachms, Bole-armene, roots of Snake-weed, of each half an ounce; Extract of Opium two drachms and a half, clarified Honey nine ounces; mix and make them into an Opiate according to art.  
This is proper in all losses of Blood in Diarrhaea's, Lienteries, and Bloody-fluxes, it allays Pain and causes rest; it is given from half a scruple to a drachm.  
Mr. Lemery justly suspects the truth of what is said of King Mithridates' having been poison-proof, and to have owed this to the Composition that bears his Name, whereof he himself is said to have been the Inventor. It might indeed have been of good use against Coagulating Poisons, such as Hemlock, Wolf's-bane, the biting of Vipers or Serpents, stings of Scorpions and the Tarantula; but is of little efficacy against Corrosive Sublimate and Arsenic.   

The Confection of Jacinth corrected.  
℞. Jacinth Stones prepared, red Coral sealed Earth, of each one ounce; shaving of hartshorn six drachms, of the Bone of a Deer's Heart, roots of Tormentil and Dittany, leaves of Cretan-dittany, Saffron, Myrrh, red Roses, Seeds of Sorrel, Purslain, of each three drachms; Crab's Eyes prepared, outward rind of Citrons and bitter Oranges dried, of each four scruples; Oriental Musk and Ambergrease of each ten grains, Syrup of Kermes one ounce, Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers three pound; mix them according to art.  
In this Reformation the Gold and Silver are left out as uncapable of alteration in our Bodies. They dry Kermes grains as effete and worthless, and the Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers made use of, because the Syrup of Coral commonly used, destroys in great part the Alkaline Ingredients of the Confection, whose chief Cordial virtue consists in the Disposition of their Pores, and texture of their parts that fit them to sheathe the points and edges of the hostile peccant Acids, which the Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers does in no wise do; but being a strengthener of the Heart and Brain, and other noble parts, does considerably second the good effects of the Composition. If it should be objected, That the Juice of Lemons, the foundation of the Syrup of that name, is useful in opening the Stones and Earth, we will answer, That this being much weakened by addition of the Sugar, it rather clogs than opens; besides, they being Natural Alcalies, as is apparent by their great effervescence with this Syrup, there is no necessity of opening them otherwise than in multiplying their absorbing Superficies by fine grinding, certainly the best Preparation of such Concretes for Medicinal use, as was said before in our Discourse upon Coral. He substitutes Syrup of Kermes to the Grains, because these grow worthless and effete by the loss of their inward succulent substance which is spent, and turns into little Worms as it dries. The shave of Hartshorn are deservedly preferred to the , because the shave retain all the valuable parts that the Horn loses in the ustion; for they not only contain the Mucilaginous and Cordial parts which the Horn affords to Jellies, but also the Volatile Spirit, Salt, and Oil which it yields by Distillation; all which are quite lost in Calcination. Crab's-eyes, he says, are every whit as good as Pearl, tho' considerably cheaper. Gold, he says, tho' never so thin beat into leaves, is uncapable of alteration in our Bodies; and truly considering the compact texture of that Metal, and how few known dissolvents can disunite its parts, I should be apt to think it more ornamental than useful in Physic, did I not consider how many Substances, and of how differing natures are dissolved by the ferment of our Stomach: Besides, what Mr. boil says of a Menstruum drawn from Bread that entirely dissolves Gold, and what Monsieur Couder, a skilful Apothecary of Milhan in Rouvergne affirms of Capons fed for a considerable time with a Paste made of Vipers, leaf Gold and Wheat; viz. that having carefully preserved their Dung all the time, and calcined it at length, adding Mercury to amalgamate with the Gold exhaled the Quicksilver, and fused what was left with the addition of a small quantity of Borax; he recovered not above two parts in six, or a third of what the Fowl had eat, and this too very much paler than ordinary Gold.  
This Confection is said to repair and recreate the Vital and Animal Spirits, and is therefore recommended in palpitations of the Heart, and in swooning fits, to resist Putrefaction, and to re-establish languishing and decayed Strength. It is given from a scruple to a drachm in Wine Broth or Cordial Liquors, and is mixed with Epithemes for the Heart. A part of the Composition is to be kept without addition of Musk or Ambergrease, because those Perfumes do not agree with Hysterick, and several other Patients.   

The Tholouse Hydrotick Opiate.  
℞. Conserve of Eglantine and flowers of Enula Campana or French Orrice, of each two ounces; powder of Rhubarb, picked Senna, of each two drachms; Resin of Jalap and Scammony of each one drachm, Salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk of each two scruples, Extract of Hedge Hyssop prepared with Spirit of Wine half a drachm, Syrup of Buckthorn as much as is requisite to make them into an Opiate.  
This Preparation as well as many other is improperly called Opiate, not containing the least quantity of Opium. It purges serous Humours both by Stool and Urine, is prescribed in Distempers of the Spleen and Mesentery to open Obstructions in Retention or Irregularities of Woman's courses. It may be taken every other day to the quantity of two drachms. Our Author prefers the leaves of Gratjola dried and reduced to powder to its Extract, because the Spirit used in preparing the Extract carries with it in the Evaporation much of the purging particles of the Rhubarb, etc.   

The Cordial Opiate of Lions.  
℞. Juniper-berries four ounces, powder of Vipers, Mace, roots of Angelica, long and round Birthwort, Suakeweed, Carline Thistle, Contrayerva, Cretan Spignel, of each one ounce, with Narbonac Honey boiled in Water of Scordium, make an Opiate according to art.  
This Opiate is used with success in Malignant Fevers, Epidemic Diseases, and is not only a Cure of Pestilence, but also a good preservative against it: It resists Putrefaction, and is therefore successfully taken against Worms, Crudities, etc. It is taken from a scruple to a drachm in a Bolus, or dissolved in Wine or some Cordial Liquor.   

An Opiate against Worms.  
℞. Wormseed one ounce, choice Rhubarb, sweet Sublimate, of each half an ounce; Syrup of the Juice of Purslain boiled to the consistence of a soft Electuary half a pint; mix them into an Opiate.   

Sylvius' Diascordium corrected.  
℞. Dry leaves of Scordium, roots of Masterwort, Cinnamon, of each one ounce; roots of Gentian, leaves of blessed Thistle, Cretan Dittany, Bole Armene, Gum Arabic, of each half an ounce; Nutmegs three drachms, roots of Angelica, Opium, Saffron, of each two drachms; true Acacia one drachm and a half, Honey of Rosemary boiled to the consistence of a soft Electuary two pound; make them into an Opiate according to art.  
This Electuary is a good Sudorific, is used with good success in Malignant Fevers, Fluxes, Colic, and against Worms; it is given to half a drachm.   

A Camphired Electuary.  
℞. Camphire, Ginger, prepared Pearl, of each half an ounce, roots of white Dittander, Tormentil, bone of a Stag's heart, of each two drachms; Treacle of Andromachus four ounces, refined Sugar boiled in the Water of Wood Sorrel one pound; make it into an Electuary according to art.  
This Electuary provokes Sweat, is a good Hysterick, and powerfully resists the malignity and corruption of Humours; it owes its chief virtue to the Camphire and Treacle, both experienced Remedies in Epidemic Distempers: It is given to two drachms.   

An Electuary of the Juice of Rue.  
℞. Roots of long and round Birthwort, Dyers Madder, Berries of Laurel and Juniper, Savine, seeds of wild Carrot, Agnus Castus and Rue, of each one drachm, pithy part of Piony-seeds two scruples, Cretan Dittany half a drachm, Saffron, Myrrh, Castoreum, of each one Scruple; mingle and reduce the whole into powder, and with three ounces of refined Sugar dissolved in the Juice of Rue make them into an Electuary according to art.  
This provokes the Menses, suppresses Hysterick Vapours, hastens Delivery and the coming away of the After-burthen. It is given from one scruple to four.   

The Royal Electuary.  
℞. Pine Kernels one ounce and a half, sweet Almonds half an ounce, red Roses two drachms, yellow Saunders two scruples, Ambergrease half a scruple, Musk three grains, white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water one pound; make them into an Electuary.  
This is said to strengthen the Stomach and Breast, to raise the Spirits and provoke Lust.   

Hoffman's Orvietan.  
℞. Roots of Swallow-wort, Zedoary, Carlina, Angelica, Butter-burr, Valerian, white Dittander, Enula Campana, Celandine, of each three ounces; leaves of Cretan Dittany, Scordium, Rue, of each three hands full; powder of Vipers two ounces, Oriental Saffron one ounce or six drachms, Galbanum an ounce and a half, choice Myrrh, Sulphur and sealed Earth, of each one ounce, volatile Salt of Vipers six drachms, Cinnamon, Cloves, of each half an ounce; Opium corrected or laudanum Opiatum three drachms, Oil of Amber and of Citrons of each one drachm and a half, Honey of Juniper ten pound, mix them well and leave them to ferment for some Months in a close Vessel.  
This is the best Preparation of the kind, and has been preferred as such to all others by the Apothecaries of Paris in 94; it is used in Malignant Fevers, and all Epidemic Diseases, as Plague, etc. where it proves a cure and preservative, as also against the stings and bitings of venomous Creatures, Fluxes, Indigestion, etc. It is given to a drachm and a half.   

A Chalybeat Electuary.  
℞. Opening Extract of Mars half a pound, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, of each six drachms, best Rhubarb half an ounce, clarified Honey and Sugar of each one pound; mix and make them into an Electuary according to art.  
This Electuary opens Obstructions of all sorts, is given with good success in Hypochondriacal Distempers, and cachexies, Green-sickness, etc. It may be taken along with Mineral Waters or other deobstruent Liquors.   

Zwelfer's Hydrogogue Electuary.  
℞. Middle rind of Elder, roots of dwarf Elder, of each three drachms; wild Cucumber two ounces, seeds of dwarf Elder one ounce and a half, Colefoot, leaves of black Hellebore and Hedge Hyssop of each one cunce; being all cut small and pounded, let them boil in a sufficient quantity of common Water to a quart, than filter with expression, and having clarified the strained Liquor, add refined Sugar and clarified Honey of each ten ounces, powder of Jalap three ounces, Cinnamon six drachms, Cloves, Nutmegs, Gambogia and Elaterium, of each half an ounce; make them into an Electuary.  
This Electuary purges Serosities powerfully, and is therefore of good use in an Ascites, if taken in hand before the Liver, Spleen, and other Bowels become corrupted, and if it be closely followed. It may be given to half an ounce dissolved in White-wine or some opening Liquor, or may be made into a Bolus.   

Silvius Delboe's Hydrotick Electuary.  
℞. Extract of Juniper, Pulp of Tamarinds, of each four ounces, Jalap one ounce and a half, choice Scammony one ounce, Cinnamon, sweet Fennel seeds, of each two drachms, white Sugar dissolved and boiled in common Water ten ounces; make them into an Electuary.   

Mr. Lemery's Hydragogue Electuary.  
℞. White Sugar ten ounces, boil them in a sufficient quantity of common Water to the consistence of Honey, then add four ounces of Extract of Juniper Berries, as much Cassia Fistula; powder of Jalap one ounce and a half, Scammony one ounce, soluble Tartar half an ounce; make them into an Electuary.  
This and Sylvius' Electuary are not only recommended for all sorts of Dropsies, but are also proper to cleanse the Kidneys and Bladder from a slimy and gravelly Mucus that often counterfeits the Stone; they are also proper in Hypochondriack Affections, Cachexies, suppression of the Menses or Urine, in the Gout, Rheumatism, etc. they are taken to six drachms.   

An Electuary of Garlic.  
℞. Eight cloves of Garlic, to which fried and mashed with Honey add four scruples of Castor, Sperma Ceti, Juniper-berries, and dried leaves of Pellitory of the Wall, of each two scruples, Mithridate five drachms, Oxymel of Squills boiled to the consistence of an Opiate four ounces; make them into an Electuary according to art.  
It is proper in Nephritick and Wind colics, in running and fixed Gouts, in Asthmas, Dropsies, and most sorts of Cachexies; for it cuts and attenuates tough roapy Humours, that obstruct both the Conglobate and Conglomerate Glands, and so hinder the due Secretion of the useful, and the discharge of Excrementitious Humours. It is used in time of Pestilence. The Dose from a scruple to a drachm.   

A Terebinthinate Electuary.  
℞. Good clear Turpentine one pound, roots of Mallows, of Grass, rest Harrow, Butcher's Broom, Liquorice, of each one ounce; Gum Arabic, Tragacanth, prepared Crab's-eyes, Nitre purified, Salt of Sulphur, Cheslops prepared, of each three drachms; Volatile Salt of Amber and sweet Sublimate of each two drachms; make them up into an Electuary according to art.  
This Electuary attenuates and wears by degrees the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder, carries off the Gravel and all gravelly Slime or Tartareous Concretions by Urine, and is therefore proper in Nephritick colics: It deterges and heals Ulcers in the Urinary Passages, and in the Matrix, wherefore it is successfully prescribed in Gonorrhaea's and in suppression of Urine.   

A Wound Water.  
℞. Leaves and roots of great Cumfrey, leaves of Sage, Mugwort, Bugle, of each four handfuls, Betony, Sanicle, Ox-eye, Water Betony, lesser Confound, Plantain, Agrimony, Vervein, Wormwood, Fennil, St. John's Wort, Birthwort, Sengreen, Paul 's Betony, lesser Centory, Yarrow, Tobacco, Mint, Hyssop, of each one handful; let all be beaten mixed and macerated for three days in six quarts of White Wine over hot Embers, then distil them in B. M. and keep the Water for use.  
This Water is much used in France for Contusions, Dislocations and the Resolution of tumors, to cleanse Wounds and Ulcers, and to resist Mortification; they call it Eau d'arquebusade.   

The Nephritick Water corrected.  
℞. Narbon Honey half a pound, Venice Turpentine two ounces, Nephritick Wood, Rest Harrow, of each an ounce and a half; Wood of Aloes one ounce, Galengale, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mace, Cubebs, Mastic, of each half an ounce; beat and pound what is to be pounded, and let the whole be macerated in two quarts of Brandy, then distilled with a gentle fire.  
It discharges the Kidneys, Ureters, and Bladder of a gravelly tenacious Mucus, and helps in Wind and Nepritick colics; it may be given to half an ounce in white Wine or some appropriate Decoction.   

Clossaeus' Cosmetick Water with Myrrh.  
℞. New Goat's Milk two quarts, Spanish Wine three pints, Juice of the greatest Housleek a pint and a half, Water of Water-Lilies and white Roses of each one pint, whites of twelve Eggs; distil them in B. M.  
℞. Of the above described Water a quart, best Myrrh finely powdered two ounces; let them stand in digestion for 24 hours, then distil again. You may dissolve in half a pint of this myrrhed Water Sugar-candy two drachms, Borax one drachm,  Alum one scruple.  
This Water smooths, beautifies and preserves the Complexions of Ladies, takes off Sun-burning, Freckles, or Spots; it is to be used with a Linen Cloth or Sponge.   

Sylvius' Prophylactick Water.  
℞. Green unripe walnuts cut small two pound, fresh Cirrons sliced one pound, leaves of Garden-Rue four ounces, Balm, Scabious, Marygold-flowers, roots of Butter-Dock, of each two ounces; Setwall, Angelica, of each an ounce; pour upon all l●…ten together sin quarts of distilled Vinegar, let them stand a whole Night, next Mornign distil with a gentle fire almost to a dryness.  
This Water or rather Vinegar is highly commended against the Plague, and in all Contagious and Epidemic Distempers. It resists Poison and the Contagious Effluvia of an Infectious Air; cures the biting of venomous Beasts, kills Worms, and in attenuating gross viscid matter quickens Digestion. It is mingled in Potions and in liquid Epithems put up into the Nostrils, and applied to the Temples, Stomach and Wrists. A Sponge soaked in it, put into a Box with little holes in the Lid, is carried in the Pocket to be smelled to in Sickness-time. Mr. Lemery who attributes the good effects of this Compound to the Volatile Particles of its Ingredients, would change the Vinegar, which fixes too much, for white Wine; but since the Experience not only of Silvius, Diemerbroeck and Deker, but of many other considerable Practitioners has found this Preparation efficacious, I should not alter it for the sake of a specious notion, especially Vinegar and such like mild Acids proving extraordinary Remedies in Distempers wherein the Texture of the Blood is depraved, and the Mass inclines to a Dissolution.   

Water of Magnanimity.  
℞. Two handfuls of Aunts, Spirit of Wine a quart; digest them in a covered Vessel until they putrefy into a Liquor, then distil them in B. M. and aromatize the distilled Liquor with a small quantity of Cinnamon.  
This Water raises and quickens the Spirits in dissolving the clammy cold Humours that clogged and depressed them, increases and ferments the Seed; its Doses is from one drachm to two.   

An Apoplectic Water.  
℞. Tops of Marjoram, Tilet or Lime-tree, flowers of Lily of the Valley, Rosemary, Lavender, Sage, Primrose, of each a handful and a half; let them macerate eight days in the Sun or in a Stove in a pint and a half of Spirit of Wine, and an equal quantity of Orange-flower-water, then distil them in a Sand Bath according to art, and put it up for use.  
This Water corrects the Acids that fix the Blood and hinder its due Rarefaction, and so quickens its Circulation. The Ingredients being of the number of Cephalicks it is chief recommended against Distempers of the Brain, as to prevent Apoplexies, Lethargies, Palsies, etc.  
Charles the Fifth's Cephalick Water differs from this by an addition of Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Cardamons, Cubebs and grains of Paradise, which make his much hotter and more stomachick.   

A famous sweet-scented Water.  
℞. Root of Florence Orrice and Benjamin, of each one ounce and a half, choice Storax six drachms, lignum Rhodium half an ounce, yellow Saunders two drachms, Aromatic Reed and Labdanum of each two scruples; flowers of Benjamin one scruple; all reduced into powder and put into a Matrass well stopped, let them macerate 24 hours in a lukewarm B. M. in a pint of Rose-water, and half a pint of Orange-flower-water; then draw them off in the same bath somewhat hotter, and dissolve six grains of Musk and the like quantity of Ambergrease in the distilled water.  
The use of this Water is only external to perfume Linen, Gloves; the Musk and Amber may be left out by such as are subject to Vapours; what is left at the bottom of the Cucurbite being dried, may serve to burn upon occasion. Some content themselves with a Tincture of the Ingredients, without giving themselves the trouble to distil them.   

A Stomachick Water.  
℞. Outward rind of Oranges one ounce, lesser Galengal five drachms, Ginger three drachms, Aromatic Reed, Enula Campana, of each two drachms; Cardamons, Cloves, of each a drachm and a half; Spirit of Nitre two drachms; good Brandy twenty ounces; let them stand in digestion for six days, then separate the clear from the thick according to art.  
This Water strengthens and warms the Stomach, helps Digestion, breaks and expels Wind in rarifying and attenuating the flatulent viscous matter it meets with. The Spirit of Nitre is mixed to help to draw off the better Tincture, and to give the Water a more agreeable smell.  
He advises to dissolve a drachm and a half of the Salt of Guajacum in Bates's Aqua Syphilica to make it more efficacious for the end it is designed for.   

A Water for a Consumption.  
℞. Snails flesh parted from the shells two pounds, boil it well in rough austere Wine and Plantain-water, than filter the Liquor with a strong expression, and having dissolved in it a pound of Conserve of Roses and the like quantity of Conserve of the greater Comfrey, distil them in an Alembick, then strain the Water through a woollen Cloth, first having added to it two ounces of Sugar dissolved in Plantane-water, Saunders and Spicknard of each half a scruple.  
This Water is commended in the decay and ulcers of the Lungs; it is given in Pectoral Decoctions, or may be taken alone, an ounce at a time.   

A Water to break or crumble the Stone.  
℞. Juice of Leeks, Onions, Radishes, of each a quart; Juice of Lemons, and Pelitory of the Wall, of each half a pint; let all the Juices be mixed, digested and fermented, then distilled.  
The fermentation of the Juices loosens and disengages their essential Salts, which would otherwise hardly rise in the Distillation. This Water by addition of two drachms of Spirit of Salt will be of greater efficacy against the Gravel and Stone, and will better cut and attenuate tough roapy Humours, and discharge them by Urine.   

A Diuretic Water drawn from Kernels.  
℞. Peach and Cherry Kernels of each one pound, bitter Almonds and flowers of Elder of each half a pound, being cut and grossly beaten, let them macerate in three pints and a half of white Wine for 24 hours, then distilled in B. M. according to art.  
Most of the oily substance of the Ingredients remaining in the Cucurbite after the Distillation, it would be convenient at the time of using this Water to beat a few Kernels and some Almonds in a Mortar, and make a sort of Emulsion with the Water, which tho' it would not be so opening as the former, would by washing the Ureters with its slimy mucilaginous parts secure them from sharp Choleric Urine, smooth and secure the passages from the Gravel.  
He distils a Water from the Flowers and Cups of Blue-bottle or Corn-flower, macerated for some time in Snow Water, which he says is wonderfully effectual, not only to cure all inflammatory and hot Infirmities of the Eyes, but also to clear and strengthen the Sight of old people, for which reason it is called, Eau de casselunettes or Spectacle breaker, because they that use it stand in no need of those Glasses; the manner of use is only dropping some of it into the Eyes Morning and Evening.   

The Divine water of Fernel.  
℞. Corrosive Sublimate half a drachm, Plantane-water half a pint; mix and boil them over hot Embers in a Glass Viol to the consumption of one half part, then put up the Water for use.  
It dries and deterges powerfully; it is used in Venereal Ulcers, and to resist Mortification, the Wound or Sore being washed with some Lint soaked in it.   

A Water used against Mortification.  
℞. White Sugar eight ounces, roots of round Birthwort four ounces, white Wine two quarts; mix and let them stand in Infusion for six hours, then boil them in an Earthen Vessel well covered until a third part is consumed.  
This is not only used outwardly to cleanse and deterge as the other, but is also syringed into Wounds to resist a Gangrene, and to attenuate gross and viscous Humours that hinder a kind digestion of the Sore.  
He is for leaving out in Bates's Aqua Epidemica the Celandine, Mugwort, Scabious and Agrimony, with the Liquorice and Tormentil Roots, because they contain but few if any Volatile Parts, and that the essential and fixed Salt to which they own their chief virtue remains in the bottom of the Cucurbit; which nicety is the more remarkable in our Author, because he often uses the distilled water of Plantain in his Remedies, which by his own reasonings should be worthless, as containing as few Volatile Parts as any of the Herbs he finds fault with in ours; besides, had he consulted the Registers of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, he would find, that Scabious analyzed yields some Urinous Spirit and Concrete Volatile Salt, and that it is not only recommended there as Detersive and Vulnerary, but also as Alexiterial and Sudorific.   

Compound Queen of Hungary's Water.  
℞. Fresh flowers of Rosemary a pound and a half, tops of Rosemary, Time, Lavender, Cost-mary, Sage of virtues, Marjoram, of each two ounces; let all be bruised and put into a Glass Cucurbit with half an ounce of Sal Armoniac and the like quantity of Salt of Tartar powdered apart, being well mixed, pour upon them two quarts of the best Brandy, and having fixed a Head and Recipient, and luted the Junctures, macerate and then distil.  
This is preferable to the ordinary Queen of Hungary's Water to rarify and penetrate gross Humours, and to give a brisker motion to the Blood and Spirits in Soporiferous Distempers; yet it may be made considerably stronger, by adding a drachm of the Essence of Rosemary to each pint of the Water, and dissolving three drachms of Camphire in the like quantity will make it more prevalent against Vapours and Gangrene.   

The women's Aqua Vitae.  
℞. Leaves of Sage of Virtue, crisped Menth, Balm, of each one handful; Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Mace, Ginger, Cloves, grains of Paradise, Cubebs, Cardamons, of each an ounce and a half; Galangale one ounce, long Pepper half an ounce; reduce all into gross powder, and let them infuse for fourteen days in three quarts of strong White-wine in a close Vessel; then be distilled in B. M.   

The Hysterick Water of the Amsterdamers.  
℞. Dry roots of Briony, ripe and dry Elderberries, of each two ounces; the outward peel of Oranges an ounce and a half, leaves of Mugwort, Cretan Dittany, Feverfew, Cat's Mint, Basil, , Rue, dry Savine, of each half an ounce; Myrrh and Castor of each three drachms, Saffron one drachm; all being powdered, let them stand for 8 days in two quarts of very good Spirit of Wine, then distil them according to art.  
This and the foregoing Water are proper in Hysterick Passions and Suppression of the Menses, which they provoke and render regular; they are also given in Palsies and Apoplexies; they are given to two drachms.   

An Antiscorbutic Water.  
℞. Roots of Garden and Horse Radish 〈◊〉 each one pound, Juice of Scurvygrass, Water-cresses, Brook-lime, Navelwort, Mint Bawm, Fumitory, of each half a pound▪ let them macerate together for 24 hour● then let them be distilled in a modera●… Sand heat.  
This Water is a great opener of a●… Obstructions, not only proper against t●… Scurvy, but also against Gravel, Neph●…tick Colic, suppression of Urine, & ●▪ It is a great purifier of the Blood if take● for some considerable time.   

℞. Roots of Florence Orrice, leaves 〈◊〉 Cretan Dittany and dry Mint of each 〈◊〉 ounce, Seeds of Agnus Castus, Rue a●… Lectuce of each six drachms, Venice Turpentine and White-wine of each twenty ounces; bruise what is to be bruised and distil them in B. M.  
This Water does cleanse and deterge the Spermatick Vessels, and Urethra; it is given after the use of Emulsions and necessary Purgations in virulent Gonorrhaea's.   

A Mercurial Water.  
℞. Venice Ceruse two ounces, crude Alum an ounce and a half, lethargy, corrosive Sublimate, of each one ounce, Salt of Nitre, Armoniac, of each two drachms; Ginger one drachm and a half, Vinegar one pint, Water of Knotgrass four ounces, Nightshade, Plantain, and Rose-water, of each three ounces; mix and boil them a little.  
This Water kills the Itch, Tetters, scruffy dry Scabs that deform the Skin; it also cures scald Heads, Venereal and other obstinare Ulcers or Sores; the Parts are to be fomented with it, but bleeding and purging aught to precede.   

A Water of three Ingredients.  
℞. Treacle Water camphorated five ounces, rectified Spirit of Tartar three ounces, Spirit of Vitriol one ounce; put them to digest until they unite perfectly.  
This hardly differs from our Mixtura simplex. It is an extraordinary Remedy in Malignant Fevers, it resists the Putrefaction of Humours, and provokes Sweat given from half a drachm to a drachm.   

Water of Castor.  
℞. Fresh Castor four ounces, green leaves of Lavender one ounce, Cinnamon six drachms, leaves of Sage and Rosemary of each half an ounce, Mace and Cloves of each two drachms, rectified Spirit of Wine three quarts; let them stand in digestion for two days, then distil them in B. M.  
This Water suppresses Hysterick Vapours, provokes women's Menses, gives life and quickness to the Blood and Spirits in Palsies, Apoplexies, and Lethargies; it may be given in some Cephalick or Hysterick Julep from half a drachm to two drachms.   

A Water to allay Gouty Pains.  
℞. Dry Cow's Dung and Frogs Spawn of each equal parts, mix and put them into a Glass Alembick and distil them with a moderate heat in B. M.  
This is used in inflammatory Gouts, a Sponge or Flannel drenched in the Water is laid upon the painful parts.   

A Carminative Water.  
℞. Aniseeds well pounded four ounces, Cinnamon two ounces, seeds of wild Carrots one ounce, Nutmegs, Mace, Galangale, Cloves, of each two drachms; having powdered all grossly infuse them for two or three days in some hot place in two quarts of Malmsey, then distil them according to art.  
This Water attenuates gross viscous Humours, expels Wind, strengthens the Stomach, and helps Digestion; it is given from one drachm to an ounce.   

A Water to take away Spots and Freckles of the Face.  
℞. Strawberries a pound and a half, flowers of Lilies and Bean flowerrs of each half a pound, Roach-Allum half an ounce, Sal Gem, Nitre, Verdigrease, of each two drachms; let them macerate for ten days in three pints of Malmsey, White-wine Vinegar, and Narbonne Honey, then distilled in a moderate Sand heat.  
This Water smooths & preserves Ladies Complexions, takes off Freckles, Sunburn's, and other such Deformities of the Skin.   

The Elixir of three Ingredients.  
℞. Roots of Enula Campana and Angelica newly dried, Juniper-berries, of each four ounces, having cut and beaten them grossly put them into a Matrass, and pour on them a pint and a half of rectified Spirit of Wine, let them stand in Infusion in a moderate heat until the Spirit is fully tinctured, than filter and put it up for use.  
It is commended against Pestilence, Asthmas, Palsies, Apoplexies and Lethargies, given from a scruple to two drachms in a convenient Vehicle.   

Crollius' Pestilential Elixir.  
℞. Balsam of Sulphur prepared with Juniper and Amber four ounces, Tincture of Treacle impregnated with Myrrh and Camphire three ounces, a drachm and a half of the Elixir of three Ingredients; put them into a Matrass, and let them stand in B. M. for 14 days until they are perfectly united.  
This proves a preservative in time of Pestilence and other Contagious Distempers, it is excellent in Asthmas, it deterges and heals inward Ulcers, is given from a scruple to a drachm.   

An Epileptic Elixir.  
℞. Spirit of Coral and Tartar of each three ounces and a half, Volatile Spirit of Man's Skull, human Blood and Amber, of each two scruples; mix and let them stand to digest fourteen days.  
This Elixir is Sudorific, a great strengthener of the Brain and purifier of the Mass of Blood; it is given in Epilepsies, Palsies and Apoplexies, from tendrops to thirty.   

An Elixir used against the Stone and Gravel.  
℞. Strawberries one pound, Sugar-candy half a pound, seeds of Gromel bruised three ounces, Alkekengi Berries an ounce and a half, tops of Golden-rod, leaves of Ground-Ivy, Saxifrage, of each half a handful; being all cut small and pounded, put them into a Matrass, and pour on good Brandy until it is the breadth of four fingers over the Ingredients, then stop the Vessel close and put it to digest in a Sand Bath or other moderate heat for four or five days, stirring it every day, which done, filter it with expression, and when it has settled, pour it from the subsiding dregs, and having strained it a second time, put it up in a Glass Vessel well stopped.  
This Elixir, or Tincture, is much used in Languedock against Gravel and difficulty of Urine, also in windy and nephritick Colicks, suppression of the Menses, Hysterick Passions, etc. it may be taken to two ounces.   

An Elixir of Garlic.  
℞. Twenty heads of Garlic washed very clean, and having beaten them in a Mortar put them into an Alembeck, pour on Spirit of Wine to the height of four fingers, then distil in B. M. pour the Spirit upon fresh Garlic, and add in the last Distillation a scruple of Camphire tied in a knot.  
The Elixir of Garlic recovers Appetite decayed by viscid crude Phlegm clogging the Stomachical Ferment, attenuates and incides the gross Phlegm impacted on the Bronchiae and straightening the Breath, and is of good use in time of Pestilence and Sickness.   

An extraordinary Anti-epileptick Elixir.  
℞. Opium cut very small half a pound, put it into a Matrass, and pour on Spirit of Wine to the height of four fingers over the Opium, and having carefully stopped the Vessel, put it in digestion for three days in some moderate heat, then distil by a Glass Alembeck in B. M. and you will have a clear Spirit.  
℞. Of this Spirit and of the Spirit of humane Skull of each equal parts; mix and let them circulate the space of two days, than put up the Liquor for use.  
Some call this Elixir by the name of the English Drops but unjustly, if Doctor Lyster says right; see Notes upon Confectio Alkermes. However this Preparation is commended much against Convulsions, Vapours, Pains, troublesome Hiccoughs, etc. It may be taken to 30 drops. The Opium that remains in the Cucurbit after Distillation may be made into the usual Extract.   

An Antihysterick Elixir.  
℞. Best Castor, Assa foetida, of each half an ounce, distilled Oil of Amber one drachm, Oil of Savine half a drachm, Rue, and Camphire of each one scruple, well rectified Spirit of Wine ten ounces; leave them to digest together for a while, then distil and pour again the Spirit that shall come off on the Ingredients, adding two ounces of rectified Spirit of Heart's Horn, then distil them again and draw off half,  
This Elixir is proper in disaffections of the Womb, it brings down the Catamenia, hastens Birth, suppresses Vapours, is used in the Falling-sickness, in Malignant Fevers, and in the Plague; it may be given to two scruples.   

Oil of Aunts of A. Mynsicht.  
℞. Live Antinous and seeds of Rocket of each what quantity you please, mix and beat them into a kind of Paste, put it into a Glass, expose it to the Sun until an Oil appears, which is to be separated by expression and kept for use.  
This Oil is used in venere languida, the Perinaeum and Reins are anointed with it, to excite the Spirits and raise a gentle fermentation in Semine.   

The Apoplectic Balsam.  
℞. Oil of Nutmegs by expression one ounce and a half, best Syrian Storax three drachms, Balsam of Peru two drachms, Benzoin, Ambergrease and Civet, of each half an ounce; Musk one scruple, Chemical Oils of Cloves and Rhodian-wood of each one drachm and a half, Oil of Cinnamon, Citron and Oranges of each two scruples; mix them into a Balsam.  
This Balsam is called Apoplectic because it is of great efficacy against Apoplexies and other Diseases of the Brain, which it is said to strengthen as well as the other noble parts. The Temples and Sutures of the Skull are anointed with it and part put into the Ears with musked Cotton: It may be taken inwardly for the same Distemper and to excite the Seed.   

Le Mort's Polychrest Balsam.  
℞. Roots of Sarsaparilla five ounces, Spirit of Wine four pints and a half, let them infuse in a Glass Vessel until the Spirit of Wine appears of a golden colour, than filter it and add eight ounces of Gum Guajacum, leave them to digest together, stirring them sometimes, until the Gum is throughly dissolved, which when it is add a spoonful of Balsam of Peru.  
This Balsam is Sudorific, and is of excellent use in the Pox, Leprosy, Scurvy; and tho' it was designed for internal use it may be used outwardly in Palsies, and Sciatica's: It may be taken in Wine to two drachms. Some add an ounce of Virginian Snake-weed in powder to the Infusion, and two ounces of Balsam of Peru to this quantity.   

The vulnerary Balsam of Mindererus.  
℞. Venice Turpentine one ounce and a half, Oil of St. John's Wort one ounce, Gum Elami six drachms, distilled Oil of Wax two scruples; mix and make them into a Balsam.  
This is a very good Balsam for Green Wounds, the Pled gits are to be dipped in it; it is also used in Apoplexies to strengthen the Nerves.   

The Samaritan Balsam.  
℞. Common Oil, good strong Wine of each equal parts, let them be boiled in an earthen glazed Vessel over a gentle Fire to the consumption of the Wine, and keep the Balsam for use.  
This is the Balsam mentioned in the Gospel, and tho' plain is of excellent use to cure fresh wounds.   

The Balsam of the Florence Physicians.  
℞. Turpentine one pound, powder of new well-baked Tiles eight ounces, stolen Oil half a pound, Oil of Laurel, Cinnamon, Spikenard, of each two ounces; distil them through a Retort.  
This Balsam is used outwardly in Palsies and pains of the Joints, and is taken inwardly against Worms, Stone and Gravel to ten drops.   

The Spanish Balsam.  
℞. Whole Wheat, roots of Valerian, blessed Thistle, of each one ounce; White Wine one pint; put all into an earthen glazed Vessel of a narrow Orifice, and having stopped it, leave it to macerate 24 hours over hot Embers, then add half a pound of Oil of St. John's Wort and boil them to the consumption of the Wine, which done, let them be strained and pressed; dissolve in the filtered mixture eight ounces of Venice Turpentine and two ounces of Frankincense reduced into fine powder.  
The Spanish Balsam is much esteemed for the cure of all sorts of Wounds; especially such as happen in the Nervous parts. The Wound is first washed with warm Wine, than the Balsam is put in or Syringed if the Wound be deep, than the sides bound with Ligatures and Bolsters, and a Compress steeped in strong Wine, and pressed out again, laid on the top.   

The Italian Balsam.  
℞. Oil of Olives half a pound, Oil of Laurel five ounces, Turpentine two ounces, Oil of Juniper, Spike, Petrolaeum, St. John's Wort, of each halfan ounce; yellow Wax two ounces; mix them into a Balsan according to art.  
This also is a good Wound Balsam, and is proper to strengthen the Nerves.   

An Ointment to consume Carnosities in the Urethra.  
℞. Red Precipitate one ounce,  Alum half an ounce, white Ointment of Rhasis three ounces; mix them into an Ointment, put a little on the end of a small Wax Candle and thrust it into the Vrethra.  
This Ointment consumes the Carnosities or Excrescences of Flesh that happen in the Urethra, occasioned by the corrosion of an infectious Gleet.   

An Ointment to be used when the Excrescence is eat away.  
℞. Oil of sweet Almonds drawn without Fire two ounces, clear Turpentine and powdered Ceruse of each half an ounce; mix them with a little white Wax and make them into an Ointment.  
This Ointment assuages the pain caused by the other; deterges and heals without much trouble; both are to be used upon the extremity of a small Wax Candle.   

An Ointment for Scabs and Tetters.  
℞. Salt of Lead half an ounce, sweet Sublimate one drachm, Ointment of Roses three ounces; mix them into an Ointment.  
This Ointment cures the Itch, Tetters, crusted Scabs, and other Deformities of the Skin, dissolves the viscid saline Phlegm that stuffs the Pores; it will be proper to purge before its use.   

A Linement for the Piles.  
℞. Pulp of Hog's-lice, Ointment of Poplar Buds and Oil of Eggs, of each one ounce; Extract of Opium half a drachm; make a Linement according to art.  
This Linement does wonderfully assuage the anguish of the Piles; it is used after well fomenting the part with lukewarm Wine or some appropriate Decoction.   

A Linement to hinder the Small Pox from seeming or marking.  
℞. Ceruse washed in Rose-water, Litharge of Gold prepared, of each one drachm; Oil of the four greater cold Seeds, sweet Almonds and Eggs, of each half an ounce; Nightshade and Plantain Water what is requisite to make them into a Linement.  
The Face, Hands and Neck are anointed with this Linement when the small Pox gins to dry, to make them shell off the sooner and hinder the pitying.   

Anodine and Soporiferous Ointment.  
℞. Ointment of Roses and Poplar Buds of each one ounce, expressed Oil of Henbane and the more liquid Extract of Opium of each one drachm; make them into a Linement.  
This is proper to quiet headaches and cause Sleep; it is applied to the Forehead and Temples.   

The Royal Plaster for Ruptures.  
℞. Ship-pitch one pound, yellow Wax, clear Turpentine, of each four ounces; dry roots of the greater Comfrey, Mastic, of each two ounces; Labdanum an ounce and a half, under-growth of Cystus, sealed Earth, of each half an ounce, Cypress Nuts No. 20; make them into a Plaster according to art.  
This Plaster was held a secret by the Prior of Cabrieres until the King of France purchased it and other Remedies which that Clergyman used with great success in the cure of Ruptures. It is not as Compound as other Plasters ad herniam are, but yields to none in strengthening the relaxed parts, not without a Truss.   

Dr. Blondel's Plaster called Diabotanum or Plant-plaster.  
℞. Roots and fresh leaves of Bur-dock, Butter-burr, Hemlock, Ground-pine, Lovage, the greater Valerian, Angelica, Enula Campana, Horseradish, Showbread, both Brown-worts, Stone-crop, Hedge Hyssop, both Celandines, of each one ounce and a half; all being picked, well cleansed and beaten in a Stone Mortar, let them macerate for four days in nine pints of the Juices of the greater Celandine, Clary and Hemlock, then let them be boiled to the consumption of a third part, afterwards strained and strongly pressed. Let the expressed Liquor be well boiled with Oil of Euphorbium, Oil of Earthworms, and Letharge of Gold prepared, of each two pound, and half a pound of the Juice of Stone-crop, stirring them continually with a wooden Spatula to the consistence of a Plaster; then melt and mix with them yellow Wax and Burgundy-pitch of each nine ounces, liquid Storax well cleansed from its Feculencies, clear Turpentine, Gum Tacamahac, of each two ounces; Ammoniacum, Galbanum, Olibanum, Mastic, Bdellium, Opopanax, Sagapenum, Oil of Bricks, Laurel-berries, common a Brimstone of each one ounce and a half; Bitumen of India four ounces, green leaves of Pistachio's dried in the shade one ounce Camphire dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Oil of Cloves half an ounce, Pidgeon's Dung, roots of Florence Orrice, Virgins Seal, Showbread, round rooted Crowfoot, Asara bacca, Crown-Imperial, Dragon's-wort, Hellebore, roots of long and round Birthwort, Periwinkle, Seeds of Male Peony, Angelica, or if that cannot be found, Stavesacre, Cresses and Cummin seeds, of each a drachm and a half; make them into a Plaster according to art.  
This Plaster requires skill and care to be made as it ought, but its goodness will make amends for the trouble, there being scarce any that does either digest or dissolve obstinate tumors like it; such as the King's Evil, Nodes and Ulcerous Callosities. It may be made of greater efficacy by an addition of Quicksilver.   

The Diabotanum cerate with Mercury.  
℞. Plaster of Diabotanum, Hemlock and Plaster of Tobacco, of each one pound; yellow Wax half a pound, liquid Storax, clear Turpentine, Oil of Palm and Laurel, of each four ounces, Quicksilver half a pound.  
This Cerate is successfully used to assuage pains in the Shoulders, Arms, Thighs, Legs, or any other parts of the Body proceeding from Venereal Infection; it also dissolves Nodes and Venereal tumors, obstinate cold Swell; it may be used alone or mixed with other Plasters tending to the same effect.   

A Plaster of Sperma Ceti.  
℞. White Wax four ounces, Sperma Ceti two ounces, Galbanum dissolved, strained and boiled in Vinegar one ounce; mix and make them into a Plaster.  
This Plaster is applied to women's Breasts to keep their Milk from curdling, and to dissolve what may be already coagulated, and may be also put to Scrofulous tumors. It is too soft to be made up in Rowls, therefore must be kept in a galley pot.   

A Plaster for the Toothache.  
℞. Gum Tacamahac, Elami and Mastic, of each two ounces; Opium two drachms, mix and make a Plaster according to art.  
This owes its virtue to the Opium, which applied to the Temporal Artery may impregnate the Blood with some few anodine Particles, or stay in some measure the Defluxion of a Saline Serosity that irritates the Nerve of the aching Tooth.   

A Febrifuge Plaster.  
℞. Cloves of Garlic well cleansed two ounces, twenty live Spiders, Bitumen of India, Sal Armoniac, Rosin, Wax, Turpentine, Oil of Spike and Mastic, of each one ounce; Camphire two drachms; make them into a Plaster according to art.  
The subtler parts of these topic Medicines excited by the heat of the Body insinuate themselves through the pores, mix with the Blood, and either by fusing it or raising a gentle Fermentation, sometimes happen to occasion the secretion of the morbile matter; bleeding and purging aught to precede their use.   

A Plaster of Cinnabar.  
℞. Plaster of Mucilages three ounces, Burgundy Pitch, clean Galbanum, of each two ounces and a half; Cinnabar one ounce and a half, Ointment called Aegyptiacum half an ounce, Euphorbium and Orpine of each two drachms and a half.  
This Plaster is used to consume proud Flesh, to deterge Venereal Ulcers, and lay open Cancers: It will be of a better Consistence, if instead of the Aegyptiacum you use a drachm and a half of Verdigrease.   

A Plaster to consume Excrescencies in the Urethra.  
℞. Emplastrum Diachalciteos half a pound, Verdigrease, Orpine,  Alum, read Precipitate, of each three drachms; mix them according to art into a plaster.  
This Plaster consumes the Callosities and Excrescenties that grow sometimes in the Urethra. It may be made more or less Corrosive by increasing or diminishing the powders; after the small Wax Candle armed with this Plaster has been drawn out of the Urethra you must put in another besmeared with the Ointment of Roses to assuage the pain caused by the corrosion of the other.   

The Plaster of the four Gums.  
℞. Gum Ammoniack, Sagapenum, Galbanum, Opopanax, of each one pound; Colophony half a pound; make them into a Plaster according to art.  
This softens and dissolves tumors and brings them to due Suppuration.   

Plaster of Virtues.  
℞. Common Oil and Fountain Water of each two pound, prepared Litharge one pound, Ceruse four ounces; boil them according to art to the consistence of a Plaster, then add eight ounces of yellow Wax and the like weight of Turpentine.  
This is called Polychrestum by reason of its general use, but it is more especially recommended for Ulcerous Burns, Chaps, and Clefts in the Breasts, Hands, Feet, proceeding from Chilblains, etc. It is applied to Wounds and to discuss the remaining hardness of Impostumes; if spread thin it may serve for a Saradrap to lay upon Issues, Seton's, &c.   

Tinctura Martis Mynsichti being frequently prescribed, and not described in this nor in our Dispensatories, I will add it here out of the Author.  
℞. Sal Armoniac two part, filing of Steel one part; mix and put them into a Retort, distil first with a gentle, then with a stronger fire, so the Essence of Mars will remain in the bottom, which take out and edulcorate very well from the sharpness of the Shall Armoniac; then put it into a Cucurbit, add Spirit of Wine, and let them stand until the Spirit ceases to draw a deeper Tincture, then pour off the Spirit, draw off half in an Alembeck, filter the rest through Cap paper and keep it for use.  
Others use a more expeditious method for drawing this Tincture. Having powdered the Salt and Filings they throw them into a red hot Crucible, let them stand until they are very hot, than they cast them into a Mortar, and having stirred and powdered them a little, pour them into a Cucurbit, add Spirit of Wine and stop the Vessel; thus they have a Tincture in four and Twenty hours.  
This Tincture is esteemed an extraordinary opener, and is therefore used in Cachexies, Hypochondriack Melancholy, Suppression of the Menses, etc. It is given from six drops to twelve in Wine, Bathwater, or in appropriate Syrup● and Decoctions.    
FINIS.  

Remedies collected out of the History of the Royal Academy of Sciences, published some Months passed by John Baptista du Hamel.  
I Need say no more in praise of Mr. du Hamel, than that he had the honour to be particularly esteemed by our famous Mr. boil, and that he has been Secretary to the French Royal Academy of Sciences since its first Institution. He is Author of the Philosophca vetus & nova ad usum Scholae accomodata, and of several other excellent Works. He inserted these Remedies in his History in hopes they might prove of some good to the Public, which is the design of adding them here.  
Monsieur Galloy recommended the Decoction or Broth of Crabfish in Distempers vulgarly called, Defluxions on the Breast and Lungs; he was advised to it by the famous Malpighius.  
The same also recommended Urine and Salt boiled to the consistence of Honey to dissolve obstinate Swell when they do not yield to the best discussing Plasters.  
Dr. Joly a Native of Dijon assured, that in Burgundy and the Confines of Champagne, where the King's Evil is very common, they boil two handfuls of Flower in a quart of Vinegar over a gentle heat to a Gluish Consistence, and apply it with new Flax-yarn never washed to the swelling, which does discuss it wonderfully.  
Mr. Du Verney recommends Mr. Lemery's Styptic Water as an extraordinary Remedy in Wounds, Hemorrhagies, etc. and says, It is used with great success at Strasbourg.  
Others offered the Phlegm of Vitriol cohobated on the Vitriol and distilled from 〈◊〉 several times: This may be safely take● inwardly, being not in the least Corrosive▪ Some were for the Oil of Vitriol dulc●fy'd by a long digestion with Spirit 〈◊〉 Wine, than that Spirit drawn off an● fresh poured on; this to be repeated several times.  
Mr. Du Clos said, He himself cured the spitting of Blood, by the repeated exhibition of a grain of Opium in Syrup of pomegranate.  
The following slight Preparation is said to be of great efficacy in Wounds, Incisions and Contusions. ℞. Rosebuds two handfuls, Sugar half an ounce, Cinnamon one drachm; put them into a pint of good Brandy, expose the Bottle to the Sun for three Weeks. They give it a mild Astringency to stop the Blood, a Volatility to dissolve what is extravased and become grumous, and say, it Coats the Wound with a sort of Varnish or gluish clear Liquor that keeps it from the Injuries of the Air. Others commended the Balsam of Peru.  
Upon trial, which was most in the right, Monsieur Redi that placed the Poison of Vipers in a yellow Juice, or Saliva; or Mr. Charas that affirmed it consisted in their irritated Spirits; there was discovered a Bag or Magazine of the yellow Juice at the Root of their Teeth, and a natural hollow Channel in the Tooth through which the Liquor was forcibly shot out upon pressure of its Reservatory; this yellow Juice was found to be a kill Poison. On this occasion a Discourse was started, how those aught to be helped, who should have the misfortune to be bit by Vipers. Some quoted Ambrose Parey, Chirurgeon to Charles IX. and to Henry the Third of France, who being bit in the Finger by a Viper at Montpelier, escaped by making a strait Ligature above the Wound. Monsieur Charas was twice bit; the first time besides a Ligature, he took twenty four grains of the Volatile Salt of Vipers, which cast him into a good Sweat; the second time he trusted to the Ligature alone, and did well.  
The Inhabitants of Poictou, who are frequently bit by Vipers, that are very numerous in that Province, use another sort of Remedy. When stung they heat an Iron red hot with what expedition they can, and hold it as near and as long as they can bear it, to the Wound. One so dangerously bit, that his Arm swelled up immediately, heated the Blade of his Knife red hot, held it close to the Sore for ten or twelve Minutes, and the Swelling and other Symptoms soon disappeared.  
Monsieur Blondel offered another Remedy, which he had known to be used with good success by Huntsmen in America, viz. When bit or stung they immediately scarifyed the part, filled it with Gunpowder, and set fire to the Powder.  
Others fill the Wound with Cotton well soaked in a Dissolution of Treacle in the best Spirit of Wine.  
In Normandy they first press and suck out the Blood, and then fill the Wound with Salt, and this they do when hurt by mad Dogs.  
A trial was made of an Indian Stone given by Father Fontenay to Monsieur Cassini, a Pigeon being wounded by a Viper the Stone was applied to the Wound with some success; but a Stone that was said to have been taken out of a Serpent's Head was found to be of no effect, for the wounded Whelp it was applied to died in nine Hours time. The Stone was believed to be factitious; it is commonly called The Stone of Camboja. The Blood of this Whelp and of a Pigeon that died bitten by a Viper was fluid.  
Monsieur Charas upon this Subject told, he had cured his Daughter severely bit by an Ape, by an Application of pounded Garden Parsley to the Wound. And another offered, That Bees stings are immediately cured by putting to them bruised Laurel Leaves, and that the Powder of a Chamois-horn did the same, and was Alexipharmick.  
Upon the Analysis of Wolf's bane, and some discourse of Poisons, Mr. Charas affirmed, he had formerly found in a Chest that belonged to one of the famous poisoning Ladies, an insipid clear Liquor, that killed whatever Animal drank it; that the same Lady's Brother lived a long time by virtue of the Juice of Citrons; he was of opinion, that drinking Water in a large quantity was a good Remedy against Corrosive Poisons.  
The same Monsieur Charas being some Years before he died, reduced by a lingering Sickness to a very low state of Health, troubled with continual Sweats and troublesome itching over all his Body, bethought himself to take a grain of Opium every day, which recovered his Strength much, and gave him great ease from his itching, without dosing him in the least, or abating his Appetite to Meat or Drink; his Sweats continued for some time after he began to do well, and he believing from the itch that followed them, that they proceeded chief from a turgency of sharp corrosive Humours, thought best to second Nature in the excretion, took his Opium every day until he was perfectly recovered: This he observed, that it had the same effect whatever time of the day he took it. It is also commended in a Tenesmus, and not only put into the hollow of the Tooth, but also taken inwardly for the painful Tooth-aches.  
Discoursing upon Sea water, and the several methods tried to render it sweet, as Percolation, Distillation, and Precipitation, they seemed to conclude the latter impracticable, because to precipitate the Sea-Salt another Salt must be used, which will communicate an ungrateful Acrimony or Acidity to the Water. What Glauber says of his Specular Stone ignited wants the confirmation of Experience. Percolation requires a close light Earth: Sand calcined and reduced into Powder would be very proper. Sweetening Water by Distillation has been performed by some, especially by D. Othon of Caen, who by a serpentine Pipe or Worm of his own invention has drawn above forty Pints in forty Hours: This Water thus distilled, mixed in a small quantity with common Water, preserves it from Corruption, if we believe Fioravanti who delivers it as a considerable Secret. Sea-water drank in a small quantity is no way hurtful: Some take it against Worms, others to prevent their being Sea-sick. Zacutus tells of a Dropsical Man, who being at Sea and forced to drink Sea-water, having none that was fresh, fell into a Looseness that cured him of his Dropsy. Another was known to have been considerably relieved by wearing continually round his Loins a Linen Girdle stuffed with dry Salt finely powdered; and whereas before he used it, he seemed to be at death's door through the vast bulk and extension of his Abdomen, yet he lived two Years. Hereupon some recommended Hemp agrimony in Dropsies; another told, how two Dropsical Persons found some relief in an Anasarca by going into an Oven immediately after the Bread was drawn out.  
Monsieur Homberb related the History of an Hypochondriack that was cured by the use of this following Mixture.  
℞. Quick Lime slacked in the Air two parts, Sal Armoniac one part; mix them well together. He gave twenty grains of this Mixture at a time. He says, Lime dissolved per deliquium, deserves to be placed among the best opening Remedies.  
The same says, That if you mix equal parts of Salt of Tartar and Sal Armoniac together, draw off the Spirits or Urinous Flowers, and then dissolve, filter, and coagulate what remains, you will have Sylvius' Salt so much commended by the Dutch Physicians. He deprives the Glass of Antimony of its Emetic quality by an Acid Spirit drawn from the Oak Tree: The method is thus.  
℞. Glass of Antimony two ounces, pour on it a pint of the Spirit of Oak-wood, leave them to digest for eight days, then change the Spirit for new, and repeat this till the Spirit draws no more red Tincture from the Glass. In this Operation not only the Glass of Antimony loses its Emetic Quality, but also the Spirit is deprived of its natural Acidity; the Spirit first used becomes sweet and somewhat astringent.  
Dr. Merry assured, That he has cured not only superficial but also deep flesh Wounds with a mixture of an inconsiderable quantity of good rectified Spirit of Wine with common Water: He keeps the Wound clean, drops in some of this Water, or anoints the Wound with a Feather dipped in it.  
Mr. Turnefort commends. Garlic in the griping of the Guts, and a Gargoyle of Olive Pickle called Pinsolina in Provence against Quinsies.  
Mr. Du Hamel has a great Opinion of the Powder of Acorns given in Wine in the Colic pains. He also recommends the Roots of Butter-burr as a powerful Sudorific, and the Leaves of the greater Burr dock dried in the Sun and reduced into Powder, as Alexipharmick and efficacious in Malignant Fevers.  
Mr. Bourdelin commends, besides Scurvygrass, Cresses, Buck-Beans, an Infusion of Mustardseed in Scorbutic cases. Others were for a change of Air: a third sort preferred Remedies that may allay the Heat and Effervescence of the Humours.  
The Duke of Montasaire who was Governor to the Dolphin, used to find a great relief from the Rheumatic pains he was frequently troubled with, by rubbing the part well, and then fomenting it with a strong Infusion or Decoction of Tansey.  
Mr. Du Verney has experienced the Efficacy of Camphire, not only in Rheumatisms and Malignant Fevers, but also in the Kibes and Piles, against which last he ordered an Ointment of Horse-dung fried with Suet and the Juice pressed out for use.  
Mr. Bouleduc cures the Hemorrhoides with a mixture of the Juices of Henbane and Toads-flax incorporated with the Grease of an Eel. The same commends a Conserve of Rue in Malignant Fevers. Mr. Merchant the Tuberose Roots, Birds-foot, against the Stone and Gravel. Others a Dissolution of Camphire in Cordial Potions against Cephalalgia's, and Camphired Wine in Rheumatic and Erratic Pains.  
Mr. Dodart observes, That most that die of the yellow Jaundice are carried off with a Flux of Blood; but with us they are more subject to fall out of incurable Jaundices into deplorable Dropsies.  
The Juice of Bugloss is recommended in Pleurisies, and a Panacaea consisting of Mercury, Sea Salt and Vitriol in Malignant Fevers, but the Process is not inserted.  
Half a pound of Oil of Tartar mixed with two pounds of quick Lime and distilled six times in a moderate heat, becomes a good Remedy in Palsies and in Rheumatic pains.  
An Extract made of Thea turned Veinous Blood into a darkish black colour, but did not coagulate it in the least; being mixed with Arterial Blood, this caked in the middle, and appeared of a lively vivid colour, the rest looked like common Serum.  
Cows and Goats-milk analysed yielded nothing that was ungrateful either in Smell or Taste; four pints of both gave three ounces of Oil and thirteen ounces of a fixed and very lixivial Salt. All that was drawn from the Ass' Milk was either ungrateful or insipid.  
A Tincture of Gold may be prepared thus; Dissolve one part of Gold in thirty parts of Spirit of Salt, and then pour on essential Oil of Rosemary, and shake together until the Oil becomes of a yellow colour, which when you find it is, separate the Oil by a Funnel, and pour on it a triple quantity of Spirit of Wine acuated with the Spirit of Sorrel, and leave them in Digestion a considerable time.  
I will conclude with some Remedies recommended by Doctor Turnfort the famous Botanist, Royal Professor of Plants at Paris.  
In Agues accompanied with Obstructions of the Bowels he advises to give the Kinkina in an Extract of the lesser Centory, or in an Extract made of the leaves of Smallage.  
He gives us a Remedy against the Nephretick or Stone-Colick, which the Intendant of Languedock having found great Relief by, printed for the good of the Public.  
℞. Half a drachm of the outward Bark of the Root of Star-Thistle or Calcitrapa gathered about the latter end of September, reduce it into powder and infuse it in a Glass of White Wine over Night, which filter and drink off the next Morning early, and neither drink nor eat for three hours after.  
The same day prepare the following Remedy to be taken the next Morning.  
℞. A small handful of Pellitory of the Wall, a drachm of Sassafras wood, and the same quantity of Anise-seed, and about half a scruple of Cinnamon; infuse them all Night in a covered Vessel over hot Embers in six ounces of Water, in the Morning set it over a clear Eire, and let it hoil for half a quarter of an hour, than filter, and pour it into a Silver Poringer upon two ounces of Sugar-candy; when the Sugar is dissolved drink it off as hot as you can bear it, and abstain from eating or drinking for three hours.  
He distils a Water from great Celandine, River-Crabs and Honey, which is very good in Consumptions, Inflammations and Ulcers of the Eyes, and powerfully suppresses Hysterick Vapours.  
He knows no Remedy that gives more present ease in painful Cancers than to anoint them with a mixture of Butter and an Oil drawn by a Cornue from common Flax-weed or Toad-flax; this Oil dissolves the Blood and extravased Humours in the Pores of the Flesh, and so supples the Fibres, whose extraordinary Tension caused the intolerable pains. He prepares an Ointment which he also commends much. He infuses Beetles and Hog's-lice in Oil, then puts in some Toad-flax, and after they have boiled for some time, he strains them through a Linen Cloth, adds equal parts of hard boiled yolks of Eggs and fresh Bees-wax, until he has brought them to the Consistence of an Ointment.  
The Prince of Mirandole's famous powder against the Gout, kept a great secret by many, consists of equal parts of Germander, Ground-pine, lesser Centory, roots of the greater Centory, round Birthwort and Gentian reduced into fine Powder, which may be taken in substance or infused overnight in half a Glass of good old Wine: It is to be continued a considerable time, and may prove of good use in intermittent Fevers, Dropsies, and all such Distempers as are occasioned by Obstruction of the Viscera. A Fomentation made with the Decoction of Heath-flowers is also recommended against Gouty and Rheumatic Pains.  
The following Partisan is very good in a dry husking Cough.  
℞. Roots of Bugloss and Dogs-grass of each three ounces; boil them in two quarts of common Water, pour the boiling Decoction upon an ounce of the flowers of Corn-Poppies and three heads of white Poppies cut small and bruised, and tied up in a Bag, that they may be pressed and squeezed out the better; let them stand in Infusion a little, than filter with expression, and sweeten it with some Pectoral Syrup.  
A strong Tincture of the Flowers of Corn-poppies is used with success in discharges of Humours on the Lungs.  
A strong Infusion of Mother-time well sweetened with clarified Honey drank warm is no unpromising Remedy in old inveterate Coughs, proceeding from tough viscid Humours impacted on the Bronchiae. An Infusion of the same Herb in White-wine or pale Claret, with five or six drops of the Essential Oil of Sassafras to each. Dose taken fasting in a Morning for some time together is approved in Obstructions; as is also Solanum Scandens, Dulcamara or Bitter-sweet, especially if infused in the distilled Water or Decoction of the common greater Speedwell or Fluellen. It is the middle rind of this Nightshade that is used in the Infusion.  
In Greenland the Natives boil Sorrel and Scurvygrass in their Broth, and take large quantities of the Decoction of those Plants, without any other additition against the Scurvy, and find that Sorrel is a great corrector of the Acrimony of Humours, and of great benefit to the Scorbutic that are of a dry bileous Constitution.  
Wine wherein the tops of Juniper have been boiled is recommended as a Diuretic in Dropsies or Suppression of Urine, wherein Pills made of two parts Aloes, one part of the powder of Juniper-berries are very beneficial; they purify the Blood by Urine and by Transpiration.  
A strong Decoction of the great Burdock is not only commended as a purifier of the Blood from ordinary Feculencies, but also to carry off the Dregs of the Venereal Disease. Hollerius often prescribed it with good success in Pleurisies; and Forestus says, it cured Vastelius Pensioner of Maclin of the Gout. It made him make a great quantity of Water that was as white as Milk. Etmuller and many others, are of Opinion, That the Roots of Burrdock, and of that called Butterburr, may be well substituted to China Roots, and to Sarsaparilla, as Box-wood to Guajacum and Juniper-wood to Sassafras.  
Mr. Turnfort affirms upon his own Experience, the efficacy of an Infusion of the Roots of the great wild Valerian in most violent Hysterick Fits and Convulsive Asthmas and Coughs. He also says, he has seen Palsies cured in the Alps by the use of the Leaves of Alder, especially when that Sickness was occasioned by lying abroad on the Ground or in damp wet Houses. The manner of use is thus, they fill several Bags with the Leaves, keep them in the Sun, or put them in Ovens until they are throughly hot, than they spread the Leaves on a Bed, put the Patient in, and cover him well, who will not fail to sweat abundantly: And this does not only relieve in Palsies, but also in Rheumatisms, Sciatica's, and old Aches if not Venereal; which are also sometimes much eased by a Linement of equal parts of Oil of Chamomil, St. John's-wort, and Spirit of Wine Camphorated; also by the Root of Pepper-wort powdered and mixed with Butter applied to the part, and the Tincture of the same Root drawn in Spirit of Wine taken inwardly.  
An excellent Mouth water, proper in the Scurvy to cleanse the Mouth and strengthen lose Gums, may be made of one part of the Tincture of Columbine-flowers drawn in Spirit of Wine, and two parts of the following Dissolution.  
℞. Gum Lac, two ounces, tears of Mastic two drachms; dissolve them over a gentle Fire in a pint of good Brandy.  
An Oily Aromatic Volatile Salt, or a Spiritus Volatilis Aromaticus Oleosus, for both may be had by this method.  
℞. Cinnamon five drachms, Mace and Nutmegs of each two drachms and a half, Cardamons one drachm, Saffron and Cloves of each two scruples, Citron peel, Bark of Sassafras, Aniseeds and Caraway-seeds, of each three drachms; powder all and put them into a Matrass, pour on a quart of the best dephlegmed Spirit of Wine, stop the Matrass close, and leave them to infuse for eight days, stirring them at least twice every day; when they have stood eight days, press out the Liquor, and pour it into a Glass Retort upon half a pound of Salt of Tartar well dried, pulverised, and mixed with four ounces of Sal Armoniac, and distil them in a mild sand heat, and you will have not only an Aromatic Oily Spirit, but also a great quantity of Volatile Aromatic Salt that will be very penetrating, as consisting of the urinous part of the Shall Armoniac loosened and rendered easily separable from its other Principles by mixture of the Tartar; so that it passed into the Recipient along with the Spirit of Wine, loaded with the Essential Oil of the Spice.  
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ERRATA.  
PAge 21. l. 15. read some Flowers. p. 25. l. 21. Eells. p. 35. l. 9 r. this Honey. p. 41. l. 6. r. settled. p. 43. l. 18. r. whites. p. 48. l. 20. r. from the insupportable. p. 49. l. 4. r. of each half an ounce. After the Powder made of Warts, etc. in p. 58. r. the Remark, p. 62. l. 11. p. 81. l. 18. r. strengthen. p. 97. l. 15. r. the dry. p. 101. l. 6. r. of the Herb.   

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The INDEX.  

A.  
FRench Acacia, what it is, Pag. 25  
A purging Ale, 30  
An Almond Milk, 11  
With addition called Orgeat des Limonadiers, ibid.  
An Analysis of Cows, Goats and Ass' Milk 159  
Antimony, its Glass deprived of its Emetic Quality, 155  
A Cephalick purging Apozem 10   

B.  
An Apoplectic Balsam, 131  
The Balsam of the Florence Physicians, 134  
The Italian Balsam, 135  
Mindererus' vulnerary Balsam, 133  
Le Mort's Polychret Balsam, 132  
The Samaritan Balsam, 133  
The Spanish Balsam, 134  
By't of an Ape, a Remedy, 152  
For the bite of a Mad Dog, 151  
Bodies buried some hundreds of Years passed still entire, 56  
A Broth recommended in Distempers of the Breast Pag. 147  
A Broth in Scorbutic Cases 162   

C.  
Cantharideses, the internal use; vid. the two last Leaves of the Preface.  
Camphire recommended in Cephalalgia's, Rheumatisms and Palsies, 157, 158  
Spice Caps, 20  
Confection of Jacinth, with Remarks, 97  
Confectio Alkermes, remarks upon it, 94  
Conserve of the Roots of Enula Campana, the Roots of Althaea, and of the tops of Parsley, 35, 36  
Conserve of Rue in malignant Fevers, 157   

D.  
Decoction, 1  
Decoction, how it differs from a Ptisan, 6  
A Cephalick Decoction, 4  
A Decoction of the great Bur-Dock, 164  
A Sudorific Decoction, 5  
Notes upon the Decoctum Album, and upon the bitter Decoction, ibid.  
Diabotanum, vid. Blondel's Plant Plaster, 139  
Diabotanum cerate with Mercury, 140  
Diagridium Glycirrhizatum, 39  
Sylvius' Diascordium corrected, 102   

E.  
A Camphired Electuary, 102  
A Chalybeat Electuary, Pag. 105  
An Electuary of Garlic, 108  
Mr. Lemery's Hydragogue Electuary, 107  
Sylvius' Hydragogue Electuary, ibid.  
Zwelfer's Hydrotick Electuary, 106  
An Electuary of the Juice of Rue, 103  
The Royal Electuary, 104  
A Terebinthinate Electuary, 108  
An Anti-epileptick Elixir, 129  
An Antihysterick Elixir, 130  
An Epileptic Elixir, 127  
An Elixir of Garlic, 129  
An Elixir of three Ingredients, 126  
Crollius' Pestilential Elixir, 127  
An Elixir against the Stone, 128  
Of Embalming, 56  
An Astringent Emulsion, 11  
Errhines, 18  
Chemical Essences, Notes upon them, 26  
Etmuller his Opinion of the Roots of great Bur-dock, Butter-burr, of Box-wood and Sassafras-wood, 164  
Extract of the lesser Centaury, or of the leaves of Smallage given with the Kinkina when there are great obstructions in the Bowels, 159  
An Extract of Tea, its effects upon Blood. 158   

F.  
A Fomentation of Heath flowers in Gouty and Rheumatic pains, Pag. 162  
A Fumigation to raise a Flux, 21   

G.  
Oxgall, a Preparation of it, 34  
A Gargoyle to stop a Salivation, 14  
Gargarisms, 13  
Jelly of Currants as made at Blois 26  
Jelly of Isinglass, 19  
Potable Gold, 95   

H.  
Honey, 36  
Honey of Tobacco, 37   

I.  
Infusions,  
An Infusion of Mother-Time, etc. 163  
An Infusion of Mustardseed, 157  
The common purging Infusion, 7  
Infusion of the Roots of great wild Valerian, 164  
Juice of Liquorish, how prepared at Blois, 26  
An Injection to stop a Gonorrhaea. 16  
A vulnerary Injection, ibid.  
Ipecacuanha, when brought to Paris; Its Description and Use, 53, 54   

L.  
Laudanum Tutissimum, 94  
A Lineament for old Aches, etc. 165  
A Lineament for the Piles, 137  
A Lineament to hinder the Small Pox from seeming, 137  
A Lotion against the Itch, 17  
A Lotion to kill Vermin in the Head, ibid.  
Lozenges; see Tablets, 89, 90, 91, 92   

M.  
Masticatories, 13  
Mithridate, Remarks upon it, 96  
An Anti-epileptick Mixture, 12  
A Diuretic Mixture, ibid.  
A Mixture for Haemorrhoides, 157  
A Mixture for Hypochondrianism, 155  
A vulnerary Mixture, 156  
The common emollient Mucilage, 18  
A Mucilage to stop Hemorrhages, 19   

O.  
Oil of Aunts of A. Mynsicht, 131  
Chemical Oils, Remarks upon them, 26  
An Anodine Soporiferous Ointment, 138  
An Ointment to consume Excrescences in the Vrethra 135  
An Ointment to be used when the Excrescence is eaten away, 136  
An Ointment for Scabs and Tetters, 136  
An Opiate against Worms, 100  
The Cordial Opiate of Lions, 101  
The Tholouse Hydrotick Opiate, 100  
Opium, vid. 149, 151  
Hoffman's Orvietan preferred to all other Preparations of that name by the Apothecaries of Paris, 105   

P  
Panacaea Mercurialis, 92  
pastils to be chewed to discharge Phlegm, 15  
Perfumes, 21  
Pessaries, 14  
Mort's cold Philonium, 96  
Mort's hot Philonium, 93  
Angelic Pills, 85  
Anodine Pills, 88  
Anti-epileptick Pills corrected, 83  
Anti-hypochondriack Pills, 84  
Astringent Pills to stop a Gonorrhaea, 81  
Barbarossa's Pills corrected, 74  
The greater Pills of Bdellium, 75  
The lesser Pills of Bdellium, 76  
Chalybeat Pills, 84  
Diuretic Pills of Clossaeus, 80  
Pills of Gambogia, 76  
Gout Pills, 86  
Mynsicht's Hydrogogue Pills reform, 71  
Bontius' Hydropical Pills, 72  
Hysterick Pills, 83  
Imperial Pills of the Physicians of Lions, 72  
Pills of two Ingredients, 83  
Mercurial Pills, 73  
Pectoral Pills. 79  
Pills Rudii corrected, 77  
Pills of Savine 85  
Spa Pills, 77  
Mort's sweeting Pills, 82  
Sweet scented Pills, 88  
Quercetans' Tartar Pills reformed, 75  
Schroder's Tartar Pills, 87  
Turpentine Pills, 79  
An insipid Poison, 152  
A Plaster of Cinnabar, 142  
Blondel's Plaster called Diabotanum, 139  
A Plaster to consume Excrescences in the Vrethra, 143  
A Febrifuge Plaster, 142  
A Plaster of the four Gums, 144  
The Royal Plaster for Ruptures, 138  
A Plaster of Sperma Ceti, 141  
A Plaster for the Toothache, 141  
Plaster of Virtues, 144  
An Anti-nephritick Potion, 11  
A famous Anti-dysenterick Powder, 52  
A famous Anti-epileptick Powder, 51  
Powder of Ashes corrected, 61  
Powder to hasten Birth, 57  
Hartman's Cachectick Powder, 55  
A Carminative Powder, 62  
Powder of Cinnabar, 65  
A Powder to help Digestion, 55  
A diuretic Powder, 57  
The Duke's compound Powder, 58  
His simple Powder, 59  
A Golden Powder, 61  
Powder of Gutteta, 50  
A Hand Powder, 63  
A Powder burnt in Hysterick Fits, 58  
Mynsicht's Powder of Jalap, 50  
The Imperial Powder, 64  
The grey Imperial Powder against the Plague, and the red Powder, 60  
A Powder against Pleurisies, 64  
Prince of Mirandola's Powder in Rheumatisms, 161  
Powder of Sarsaparilla, 58  
An Opthalmick Powder, 59  
Sneezing Powder, 15  
Powder for Spice Caps, 20  
A Steel Powder used by the Physicians of Paris, 63  
Mort's Sudorific Powder, 65  
Powder of Turbith with Rhubarb corrected, ibid.  
A Powder against Worms used at Paris, 49  
A Ptisan to be drank in a dry husky Cough, 162  
The ordinary Ptisan, 7  
A Restringent Ptisan, 7  
One more restringent, ibid.   

R.  
Ratafia of Cherries, 31  
Ratafia of Gilli flowers, 32  
Ratafia of Kernels, ibid.  
A Remedy that gives ease in Cancers, 161  
A Remedy for Wounds, Incisions, Contusions, etc. 149  
One for the King's Evil, 148  
A Remedy for the Nephritick Colic printed by the Intendant of Languedock, 160  
For obstinate Swell, 148  
For Palsies and Rhumatisms, 158  
Another used frequently in the Alps, 165  
Rob of Speedwell, 25  
Rotules of white Poppies, 93   

S.  
King Charles' Salt, 94  
Sylvius' Salt, 155  
A Volatile Oily Aromatic Salt, 166  
Silk, 94  
Sugar, 36  
Sugar well clarified, sold for Syrup of Maidenhair at Paris, ibid.  
Syrup of Spanish Broom corrected, 40  
A Compound Magisterial Syrup, 43  
An Emetic Syrup, 41  
Syrup of Maidenhair made without Fire, 37  
Syrup of Quina Quinae, 47  
Syrup of Scammony, 39  
A strengthening Syrup, 45  
Syrup of the Whites of Eggs, 43  
Syrup of Wild Saffron, 41  
Remarks upon Syrup of Wormwood, Syrupus Kermesmus, Syrup of Lemons and Peach Flowers 49  
Upon the Syrup of Coral, 45  
Upon the Syrups of Succory and of dry Roses, 35   

T.  
Emetic Tablets or Lozenges, 90  
Tablets of Manna, 89  
Compound Tablets of Marsh Mallows, 90  
Mercurial Tablets, 91  
Tablets of white Poppies, vid. Rotules, etc. 93  
Mort's purging Tablets, 91  
Tartarum Vitriolatum recommended for a general corrective of Purgers, 38  
Tinctura Martis Mynsichti, 145  
Tincture of Coral, what it is, 25  
Tincture of Gold, 95, 159  
Tincture of Roses, 62  
Tincture of Wormwood, 42  
Trochisks of Arsenic, 68  
Trochisks to be used in a Diabetes, 69  
Trochisks of Enula Campana, 70  
Escharotick Trochisks, 68  
Trochisks used in a Gonorrhaea, 67  
Trochisks of Orrice, 71  
Trochisks of pomegranate Flowers, 67  
Trochisks of Ramech corrected, 66  
Turpentine, 25   

V.  
Vipers, a Discourse upon their Poison, with several Remedies against it, pag. 148.   

W.  
A Wash to turn Hair black, 18  
An Antiscorbutic Water, 122  
An Apoplectic Water, 113  
A carminative Water, 125  
Water of Castor, 124  
Compound Claret Water 30  
Clossaeus' Cosmetick Water, 111  
A Water for Consumptions, 116  
A cosmetick Water, 122  
The divine Water of Fernel, 118  
A Diuretic Water drawn from Kernels, 117  
A drying Water for external use, 24  
D. Brun's Eye-Water, 23  
Madam Fouquet's Eye-water, 23  
A Water to preserve the Eyes against the Smallpox, 24  
A Water to allay Gout pains, 125  
The Hysterick Water of the Amsterdamers, 121  
A Water of three Ingredients, 124  
Kernel Water; vid. Ratafia Water of magnanimity. 113  
A Mercurial Water, 123  
A Water used against Mortification, 119  
An excellent Mouth-Water, 165  
The Nephritick Water corrected, pag. 110  
Prophylactick Water of Silvius, 111  
Queen of Hungary's Water-compound, 120  
Sea-Water, several methods tried to sweeten it, 153  
A Water for Spots and Freckles, 126  
A Stomachick Water, 115  
A Water against the Stone, 116  
Strawberry and Rasberry Water, how made by Limonadiers of Paris, 47  
A sweet scented Water, 114  
A Water of Verjuice, 43  
The Woman's Aqua Vitae, 121  
A wound Water, 109  
For internal wounds, a Styptic, 148  
A Febrifuge Wine, 28  
Wine called Hippocras, 29  
A purging Wine. 28  
A Steel Wine, 28   
FINIS.