TO All the Noble and Warlike Nation of Great Britain.  
Reader,  
I Have spent forty years in a continual practice of Chemical Remedies, and the Rare and great Experiences I have showed publicly in London in the Year, 1629, 1630, 1631. are yet in Remembrance with many thousands of you; and the last Year, that I have again publicly produced myself in Smithfield open place, and to my thinking pleased many of you in my last Experiments; I cannot doubt of your acceptation of this Last Endeavour of mine, which is to requite so many Kindnesses from you during Thirty Two years of mine abode in England, and chief from this Noble and Great City of London, these few Remedies being truly good whereof I do present unto you the Composition in this Sheet will be a Monument of my Love to the Public in after-Ages; (and chief to your valiant Soldiers, to whom these Remedies will be very useful and cheap) and shall (I hope) put in your Memory the Name of  
In London, April. 2. 1656. Your Loving Friend and Servant, John Puntaeus.  
The Tenth Edition.   

The Artificial Balsamum for new Wounds, cold Aches, Strains, Bruises, Gouts, etc. As it was made publicly upon Smithfield place before many hundreds of good people the 20, and 21. of October, 1651.  By John Puntaeus, A Chemical Physician. 

TAke of your Garden herbs of good and strong smell, namely Sage red and green, Wormwood, Herbgrasse, Penny real, Marjoram, Hyssop, Neep, Motherwort, tansy, time-savoury, as also Rosemary and Bay leaves, abrotanum, clare, balm, mince, etc. as also of those hot herbs of the fields, as mugwort, calamentum, white Horehunt, Origanum, melilot, serpillum, camomile, germandry, Nettleseed, Fennel seeds and leaves. Item, of the vulnerary or healing herbs rs the season of the year will afford, as your Panacea or Clownswort, Camphory of all sorts, Bugula, Prunella, St. John's wort, golden road, perwinkle, Sanicle, Long plantain, etc. take of as many sorts as you can have, of each a like quantity, and put all being neatly cleansed in half Salad Oil, and half Linseed Oil, as much as conveniently you may guess to be enough to hold your herbs, adding a quarter part of good Sack to it, meaning a quart of Sack, if your Oil be 4. quarts, steep all together warm a whole night, and afterward boil it till the Sack and moisture of the Herbs be consumed, then strain it, and in the oil so strained for every pound of it add two ounces of Beeswax, clear Turpentine one ounce, black pitch, white pitch, Gum Elemy, Rosen and Goose-grease, of each half an ounce, red Oil of Turpentine, or colophony, jonce storax liquid, Spick oil Rosemary oil, Amber oil, spirit of Salt, of each a quarter of an ounce, Gum ammoniacum first dissolved with white wine about also a quarter of an ounce, and as much of Sagapenum and Opopanax, Benjamin styrax calamites, myrrh and aloes, of each a dram, and of the Oils made of the herbs abovesaid, the more the better, within a quarter of an ounce for every pound of the former Salad and Linseed Oils, observing to put to an account all the Oil first and last, that you may be sure to compass your wax and gums, and pitches to the weight of all the Liquors weighed together, as well as your Salad and Linseed Oil, otherwise your Balm should be too liquid and not healing enough; and if you put Chemical oils of your herbs aforesaid so much the better, wax oil, and brick oil be also excellent in it, a dram in the pound, Sugar-loaf and Honey I have often put in it, but it will not mix among the herbs afore the straining two drams also of each in the pound; How to use this excellent Composition, the printed Pape showeth it.   

The Ointments for Burn and Scaldings, as it was tried upon Smithfield place, Octob. 17. 1651.  
Take according to the time of the year more or less of the herbs underwritten, as Nightshades, Umbilicus veneris, hemlock, white and black poppy leaves, porcelan, Laituces, Sorrel of all sorts, Henbane, green Colworts, Housleek great and small Laenticula pallustris, Violet and Mallows leaves, wild tansy, ●●ramonium, and Mandragora leaves if possible could be, to have all together green, and the like. Item, of the green inward ring of the Elder tree, of all a like quantity, and as much fresh butter as may serve to boil easily the aforesaid herbs, and a little 〈◊〉 in every pound of butter, with as much, or a little 〈…〉 of an Ass' dung; or for the want of it, take horse dung, ●oyl all together till your Butter be very green, which will be the sooner, if you bruise or chop your herbs very small, boil it till you see the moisture of your herbs almost vapoured, and strain it in a napkin, adding for every pound of the said Ointment half a dram of salt of Lead, or Saccharum Saturnii dissolved in a little water and wine vinegar, stirring it with a stick when your ointment is almost cold, and so keep it close to be used according to the printed Note.   

An Excellent Remedy for Sore Eyes.  
Take Roche Alum, dissolve it in plantain water upon an easy fire, and when it is cold, put the white of an Egg to it, and stir it much with three or four sticks together, then filter it by the brown paper, or at the least strain it softly by a napkin, and then by evaporation in an earthen vessel dry your alum softly, and begin the same work again with eye-bright, or sweet Fennel water; then when your Allom is so dried again, add as much Ireos or Oris in powder, and that powder so mixed when you have any occasion to use it, steep it in Rose-water; a dram of the powder is enough for two ounces of Rose water, etc.   

The Sear-cloath for Corns.  
Take Gum Elemy, white Pitch, and black pitch, Bees-wax, Rosen and Turpentine, of each a like quantity, only the black pitch may be doubled; melt all together upon a soft fire, and so make Sear-cloath according to Art.   

The Medicine for Toothache procee●●●● 〈…〉 old can 〈…〉.  
Take Angelica roots, Spanish Pelleto●●…●…lov●●●… 〈◊〉 Ginger, of each a like quantity, and with the Mucilage of Gum Tragagant dissolved in Mugwort water, adding a little starch, ma●● 〈…〉 passed and pastilles to hold upon the aching Teeth, etc. 〈◊〉 if the pain proceedeth from a hot cause with infl●●●… 〈◊〉, then take the root of Henbane, slice it, and boil it in wine Vinegar, then strain it, and hold in your mouth the said vinegar warm, and it will put you in admiration how quickly it will cure you; the seed of the same Henbane may be used alike▪ but the root is better.   
FINIS.