THE MARROW OF Chemical Physic; OR, The Practice of Making Chemical Medicines. Divided in Three Books: viz. Showing the true and perfect Order to Distil, or Draw forth from vegetables, Minerals, and Metals, their Spirits, Oils, Vinegars, Salts, Extracts, or Tinctures, Essences and Magisteries, Flowers, and Salts, etc. Whereunto is added at the end of every such Preparation, its Virtue and Medicinal Use, for the Preservation of Health, and Restoring the Diseased to Sanity. A rare way of Making Metaline Glass of any colour whatsoever. Very useful for the making Artificial Rubies, Saphires, Jacinths, etc. Likewise for the Enameling of Rings, or for Jewels; being very excellent and easy.  
By William. Thraster Philo-Astro-Medicus, and Student in Chemistry.  
LONDON: Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, at the Leg and Star in Cornhill, against the Royal Exchange, 1679.   

TO THE READER.  
Courteous Reader,  
HAving from my youth delighted in the Art of Chemistry, at length by help of my very good Friend Dr. Bolnest, I received some Methodical Instructions. Part of my Studies and Endeavours having collected together, I here present you with, being drawn from the best Authors, and most of my own experience, and brought into such a Method, that by help of this Book only, may be truly prepared all Vegetables, Animals, Minerals, and Metals, into excellent and efficacious Medicines, in so plain a Method, that if thou tread the Hermetick Path aright, you may by help of what I have written, find the way to do thyself and Country good; And if thou by my painful Pleasure dost but procure to thyself some knowledge more than thou hadst, or 'cause any good to be done to the Diseased, it is all that is aimed at by  
At the Sign of the Razor by the Maypole in East-Smithfield. W. T.   

Chemical Physic. Book I  

What the Distillation of Chemical Medicines are; the Kinds thereof, with the Instruments and Vessels thereunto belonging.  
YOu may observe that our Chemical Preparations here intended, are no other than a noble and ingenious way of preparing of Physic, for the benefit of the Sick, and credit of the Physician, by the Art of Distillation; which Art, as some affirm, came first to knowledge from the Arabians, as the first Inventors thereof: but as this is not very easy to prove, so 'tis not much material to our purpose. We aught to understand that the Art of Distillation is the separating, or drawing Juices, Liquors, and other Moistures more subtle (by virtue of different heats, as the matter may require) from most kind of things. Or Distillation is by Art to separate a running Moisture first in vapours, arising to the head of the Still, and from thence is condensed and turned into liquor, running into the applied Receiver: or it may be termed the changing of gross Bodies into thin and pure substances, separating the most pure part from the corrupt; or the making things perfect, which are yet immature or unperfect, by which way matter or things are brought to a far greater purity, with augmentation of their Virtues. Also by this Art of Distillation, are separated the pure, essential, spiritual Humidity, from the watery or phlegmatic Matter. Or in few words, by Distillation may (from Herbs, Flowers, Roots, Seeds, Berries, Woods, etc.) be drawn Spirits, Flegms, and Oils, and from their Fecies by expression a Vinegar, and out of those Fecies after calcination, their fixed Salt. Out of Gums and Rozins are produced Spirits, Oils, and at last a Balsam, or Read Oil. In Salts, Minerals, and Metals, are various preparations, too tedious here to relate, the particulars you may found in the Treatise. For in this Art are many, and various Considerations necessary to be learned, that is according to the matter to be distilled, to use seemly and proper ways whereby the Work may be brought to a happy end. Now all manner of Distillation may be performed divers ways, and in divers Vessels, according to the judgement and pleasure of the Operator, yet aught he carefully to mind that way most expedient for the guiding the Work after the best manner, and for that purpose to use such Vessels and Instruments most expedient for his intended Work. As for the Distilling of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Leaves, Berries, for the obtaining their Spirits, Oils, Vinegers, and Salts, there necessarily goeth before Distillation, Infusion and Fermentation. As for Vessels and Instruments useful in other Distillations, read in their proper places.   

Of Lutum Sapientia, or Chemical Lute▪  
BEfore we Treat of Distillations, it is convenient to declare the manner of Luting or Defending the Vessels from the violence of the Fire, and for the closure of the Joints of the Vessel, which many neglecting, do thereby lose their best Volatile and Penetrating Spirits, and so their Medicine becomes lesle efficacious, than if care had been taken; and for the prevention of such dangers, I have here at large described several sorts of Lutes, as followeth.  
The best Lute for building of Furnaces, is made of sifted Potter's Earth; or in defect of that, good Lyme, being laid abroad: sift into it a little fine Sand, and adding some Horse-dung, mixing the same with Brine of Flesh, or Salt-water, after incorporate and labour it well together with great diligence, the more the better; and if you add the Caput Mort of Aquasortis, first made soft by the addition of water, and mix them all well, this Clay will not crack, but remain fixed in the fire. Some add filings of Iron, powdered Glass, etc.  
If equal parts of the Caput Mort of Vitriol, or Aquasortis, be mixed with Tobacco-pipe Day and some Horse-dung, it serves for the Coating of Glasses, and so will the former.  
For the Closure of the Joints of Glasses, you may first close the Receivers to the Retorts with the aforesaid Lute, and when dry you may smeer it over with a mixture made of equal parts of Red-led and Quicklime, or Lime only, ground well together with Lin-seed Oil.  
Or Tobacco-pipe Clay ground, or mixed with the White of an Egg, and spread upon a Cloth, and so applied.  
Or Ox-bladders dipped in the Whites of Eggs well beaten, and so applied.  
Old Loam and the White of an Egg, mix them into a Paste, and spread it upon a Cloth.  
Or Linen rags dipped in the water of Whites of Eggs, and applied to the Cracks of Glasses, & so strewed powdered Quicklime upon the same, put in two or three one upon the other.  
Another Lute for broken Glasses is thus: Take old tough Rinds of Cheese, soak it in water all night, and than beaten them up in a Paste, and spread them abroad upon a board, and strew upon it equal weight of Quicklime powdered, and grind them again; than mix them with well beaten Whites of Eggs, and make it into Paste.   

Of the Structure of Furnaces for the Distilling of Vegetable Spirits and Oils.  
First Furnace  
In this first Furnace A represents the body of the Still, set in Brickwork.  
B The Head of the Still.  
C The Wooden Vessel, containing the Worm, and the Water to refrigerate, and condense the Spirits.  
D The Receiver.  
This Form of Stills being common in use, need not farther Explanation.  
Second Furnace  
A Represents the Furnace, which may be built of Brick, or made of Iron, and so be carried from place to place, with a Cover fitted to it, and five Ventholes to take of, and put on.  
B Represents the Copper Globe, made with a long Neck, passing through the Furnace into the Distilling Vessel near the bottom, and to the mouth of the Globe that is in the Vessel, must have a Basket, or some thin cloth over it, that nothing but water may come into the Globe.  
G The Distilling Vessel, containing the materials to be distilled, made of Wood, and well bound with Iron Hoops, and in the Head let be a great hole to put in the materials, which after the materials are in must be fast luted.  
H The Cock, to let out the water after Distillation.  
I The Pipe from the Wooden Vessel passing into the Worm, which aught to be large, that the Spirit may seek no other passage.  
D Represents the Vessel containing the Worm, or Refrigeratory.  
E The Receiver.  
All the ill convenience that is in this way of Distillation, it performs not its work so quick as Copper Stills, yet lesle dangerous, because the degrees of fire cannot harm. The use of this Furnace followeth.   

The manner of Distilling by the second Furnace.  
THe Materials being put into your Distilling Vessel, let it be fast joined to the Copper Globe in the Furnace on the one side, and to the Refrigeratory on the other, and the hole at the top where the materials are put in, kindle the fire under the Globe, until all the matter in the Distilling Vessel boil well, and the Spirit arise and pass into the Refrigeratory, and there condensing runs into the Receiver; continuing the fire until all the Spirits be out of the Still, which is known by the taste.   

Of the Distillation by Balneo, and by Sand or Ashes.   fireplace for distillation 
COnsidering that in the former Treatise of Oil, I have mentioned Distilling by Balneo Maria, or by Water and by Sand, I thought therefore good here to make mention of the Forms of such kind of Furnaces which seemeth to be best, although every man may vary his Form at his pleasure, and to his own conveniencies.  
AA Here represents the Fire-place, which aught to be fitted with Stopples of Stone. The inner part of the Furnace under the Kettles, aught to be round.  
B Is the Ash-hole, or the place where the Ashes are taken out, and to clear the Grates.  
DD and oh the Kettles wherewith to put Water or Sand in, for the placing the Bolt-heads, Retorts, or other Bodies for Distiliations or Digestion; and if you distil by Balneo Maria, or Water, you must have another Kettle with warm Water besides the Kettle your Retort or Long-body is in, to supply what evaporates.   glass vessel for distillation 
But between the Lead and the Glass aught to be some Straw or Cotton, to hinder the breaking of the Glass against the Lead.  
E Represents the Glass, a Limbeck, or Long-body.  
CB Is the plate of Lead whereon the Glass stands, and has a hole in the middle, that the heat may come to the Glass bottom.  
CCG The strings fastened in the Lead.  
DD The Collar about the Glass, to which the strings are fastened to the Glass-body.  
Now the Glass being made fast to the Lead, put it as near as you can in the middle of the Kettle, and than fill it up with water: which being done, make your fire under. The water that evaporates must be supplied with hot water, that the Glass be not left dry.  
As for Distilling in Ashes or Sand, let them first be sifted and strewed all over the bottom of the Kettles about three fingers thick, than place in your Glass, let it a little stoop or curuate to that side where you intent to place your Receiver, and than fill the Kettles full of Sand or Ashes, and after apply your Receiver; than make your fire first small, after increase it according to Art. If you intent to distil by moist Sand, which is the best way, toward the latter end, that your Oil may not be burnt or taste of the Fire, than keep pouring into your Sand-Kettle where your Glass stands in, hot water; always supplying it with more hot water, until all the Oil be come over, and the Distillation ended.  
By help of these Furnaces may the Spirits and Oils of Vegetables be made, that is, the first Furnaces serve for the making of Oils, and these for the rectifying of them; and the oftener any Oil is rectified from calcined Tartar it borrows, the more subtle, penetrating, and of much more virtue.   

The Form of a Winde-Furnace, with the way of Distilling by an open Fire.   furnace 
I Shall here in a brief way discover the Furnace, and manner of Distilling by a naked Fire, used by Chemists for the distillation of the Spirits of Salt and Minerals, requiring a strong Fire: but first I shall explain the Furnace.  
This Furnace may be built greater or lesser, at your pleasure, or according as your occasions serve, and may contain three or four Retorts at once, to be distilled at your pleasure; but I have proportioned this but for one only. Let your Furnace be made like a Cillender, that is, round within, even from the bottom to the top.  
A Represents the Ash-hole, with Door or Stopple made to it, for the drawing forth of the Ashes, and clearing the Grates above this: within the Furnace let a Grate be placed of the same height.  
B Representeth the way going into the Grate, or to put the fire in, which must be fitted likewise with a Door or Stopple, after this overthwart you must bestow a strong Bar of Iron fenced with lute of Wisdom, which must reach from one side to the other of your Furnace, signified by the Letter C, to place te Retort there upon D the Retort, whose neck cometh out at E, which is a part of the Furnace left open till the Retort is in.  
E The Cover of the Still, to be placed on after the Retort is in likewise.  
G The Vent-hole at the top, fitted with a stopple.  
H The Receiver, to be luted at the neck of th● Retort.  
I The Stool on which the Receiver standeth▪ Likewise 'tis necessary there were, besides th● Vent-hole at the top, four Ventholes on each side, fitted with stopples.  
The Furnace being thus well understood▪ and all things ready, your Materials being in the Retort of Glass coated, or Earthen Retorts, and ready to be distilled, set th● Retort in the Furnace, so that the bottom stand upon the Iron Bar, and the neck o● the Retort come out on the open side, stooping downward as in the Figure, than lut● a Receiver to the neck of the Retort wit● good lute; which being finished, put o● the Cover, and lute it fast to the Furnace and close up that open place where the nec● of the Retort cometh out, very diligently stopping the greatest Vent-hole at the top and leaving one or two of the small hole open; let the Furnace be heated with little fire, and stop close the Door or Stopple B, but let the Stopple A be open, o● almost open at lest, that it may have som● air to preserve the fire, and after take out the lower Stopple, increasing your fire according to Art.   

Of the Distillation of Spirit, or Aquavitae, from Leeses of Beer, Wine, etc.  
TO procure Spirit from Leeses of Wine, Beer, etc. need little preparation, by reason they freely of themselves yield their Spirits, unless they be grown dry by standing, which than must be made moist again, that they may not burn; and being well mixed may be put into the Distilling-Vessel, the Joints well closed, and so distilled until all the burning Spirits are come. By the same Rule after fermentation may the Spirits of Pears, Apples, Herbs, Seeds, etc. be distilled.   

To Draw Spirits from all manner of Corn, or Grain.  
FIrst they must be prepared into Malt, and than ground, put into a Wooden Vessel, and pour upon the same so much cold water, as will mix it well; than after add so much warm water as will suffice to make the mixture moist, and but just warm; mix than with it some new Barm, cover it close, expose it to a warm place, and than 'twill ferment and ascend, and after the second or third day descend again: Than distil it, as before.   

Spirit of Fruits, Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, Roots, etc.  
SEed must be broken, or ground small. Fruit beaten in a Wooden Mortar and Pestle; Flowers, Herbs, Roots, only cut small; and upon these pour warm water and ferment added to vivify it as before, and so distilled.   

Spirit of Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, Roots, etc. another way.  
TAke eight Gallons of Aqua Vitae, macerate in the same about 3 l. of any dried Vegetable, let it stand till the next day, and distil it according to Art, and dulcify it with the one eighth part of fine white Sugar.   

Of Chemical Oils of Vegetables in general.  
THey must be prepared as for Spirits; Woods must be rasped, upon which pour as much water as may make them swim, so that when the Distillation is ended, there may remain some water, that the Oil may contract no stinking favour; let them stand until the next day, and than distil the same, and the Water and Oil will come over; which let stand in a temperate place until the Oil ascend above the water, or descend according to the nature of the Oil, which after separate.   

Oil, or Essence of Vegetables.  
LEt the Tincture of a Vegetable be extracted with good Spirit of Wine, which separate from fecies, and pour upon the same so much Spirit of Sulphur, as the one fourth part of the Spirit of Wine, digest it in a Long-body in Sand, until the Read Oil swim at the top, which is Essence of that Vegetable the Tincture was extracted from, and must be separated with a Separating-Glass.   

The Elixirating of Vegetables, or their true Essence.  
BY the former Rules extract the Spirit, and Oil; the Fecies calcine, and R with the Water of the Vegetable extract the Salt which filter, and after congeal into a body of Salt, from which draw of the burning Spirits, and calcine the Salt again, rectifying the Spirit from the same so often, every time calcining the Salt, until the Spirit be so pure as that it will inbibe its own Oil: than put the Salt dry and well calcined in an Earthen Pan glazed, and set it in such a place as may be open to the air, yet not in the lest touched by any water; pour upon the same so much of the Spirit and Oil as will just cover the Salt: cover it with a thin Lawn cloth, stirring it three or four times a day, inbibing it every day until the Salt has inbibed three times its weight of Oil and Spirit, and this is true Elixir of the Vegetable.   

Oil of Vegetables in general by Expression.  
TAke what thing you please affording Oil; stamp, beaten, or grind them small, put them in an Earthen Pan well glazed, and moisten them with good rich wine, and set them over the fire until it be so hot that you cannot endure your hand in the same, stirring it well about, than put it into a square Canvas-bag, and press it strongly in a Wooden Press, and you obtain both Oil and Water; keep the Oil for your use, These Oils have different virtues, according to the nature of the Vegetable they were made of, viz. Oil of Hempseed maketh a man pleasant, merry, valiant, hardy, fierce to fight, voided of fear; outwardly by Unction makes the face fair.  
The Oil of Raddishseeds, made with Rhenish-wine, is an excellent Dissolver of the Stone, provokes Urine, driveth out Gravel, expels Wind.  
Oil of the Seeds of St. Johns-wort, is good against Poisons, Fluxes, Hemroids, Scabs, Ruptures newly begun, the place anointed, and wearing a Truss. It helpeth all manner of Wounds.   

Of the making most excellent, durable Balsams of Vegetables.  
PRepare your Spirit, Oil, and Salt, as in the Elixiration of vegetables, the Salt being often purified with the phlegm of its own vegetables, and gently calcined every time (not melt) abstracting the Spirits every time from the calcined Salt, until they will assume their own Oil; Than dissolve the Salt again in its own proper phlegm, and admix it with the burning Spirits and Oils, put them into a Bolt-head, stop it well that the Spirits may not exhale, let it stand in B. M. until it be firmly united, and turned into a white Balsam, and than let the Glass cool, and before 'tis quite cold pour it out into a pot, and 'twill congeal into a Balsam, which will dissolve in any liquor, and of very good odour and taste, for the same use as the vegetable, to be used inward or outward; and by reason of the Admixtion of the Spirit of Salt, these Balsams are dure able, and may be coloured according to th● pleasure of the Artist, with the tincture o● vegetables drawn with Spirit of Wine, an● coagulated in the said Balsams.   

Particular Ways of making Oils of Spices, Herbs, Roots, Seeds, etc. with their Virtues and Uses.  

Oil of Cinnamon.  
TAke of Cinnamon 2 lb. grossly beaten, to it add of Tartar and decrepitated Salt, of each 4 ℥, mix them together, put them into a Glass body, and pour thereunto so much Spirit of Wine as will almost cover the same; fit thereto a blind head, lute it close that no Spirits may exhale, set it in Horse-dung or B. M. for fourteen days, than take of the blind head, and apply an Alimbeck close luted with its Receiver; distil it with moist Sand, increasing the fire by degrees, so you obtain both Oil and Spirit, which separate and keep each close stopped for your use.  

The Virtues of the Oil and Spirit of Cinnamon.  
This Oil is very penetrating, and is good against all cold Diseases, especially for the Heart and Head, cures the shortness of Breath; although a man lay speechless with obstructions, and could scarce breathe, this would recover him. It helpeth all Diseases coming of cold or phlegmatic matter. It drives down women's Terms, it bringeth forth Birth and Afterbirth, it helpeth the Cough, consumeth old Fluxes, causeth quiet sleep; it comforts the stomach, and exicates all noxious humours, corroborates the Heart, and is good in Fevers, Swoon, Poison, by taking two or three drops in Venice Treacle. It helpeth all wounds quickly; also the Spirit is good against the Diseases aforesaid, but the Oil exceeds: But if to one pint of the said Spirit be added one ℥ of choice Myrrh, one ℥ of the best Aloes, and one ℥ of good Saffron, decrepitated common Salt and Tartar, of each three ʒ, digest them together in a body and blind-head fourteen days, and than distilled in moist Sand, you obtain an Oil curing all the aforesaid Diseases, and likewise the Cough, Catarrhs, Agues of all sorts, continual Fevers, Hectic Fevers, Asthma, Epelepsis, Convulsions, Palsy, Digestion lost, Tabres or Consumption of the Lungs, Cachexia, or Consumption of the whole body, the Dose to six drops.    

Oil of Cloves.  
THe making of this is the same with the Oil of Cinnamon.  

The Virtue of the Oil of Cloves.  
It strengtheneth the Brain, Head, Heart, and Liver, reviveth the Vitals; it comforteth the weak and feeble Stomach, helpeth Concoction, openeth Obstructions. It stayeth Vomiting, consumeth Phlegm, helpeth a stinking Breath. It maketh the Heart merry, purgeth Melancholy. It healeth all manner of Wounds, Thrusts, Cuts. It comforteth the natural parts, it assuageth the Hemoroids, five or six drops may be drank every morning, or made into Lozenges, Troches, or Manus-christi, and so used. It preserveth from grey hairs, helpeth the Colic, the belly being anointed. It correcteth the wind, and swelling of the Spleen. It corroborates the Womb, erradicates the Yellow Jaundice; three or four drops taken every morning, helpeth the suffocation of the Womb, or Mother.    

Oil of Nutmegs.  
THis Oil is made as the Oil of Cinnamon.  

It's Virtues.  
It helpeth the Concoction of the Liver, by anointing the lower part of the Ribs on the right side; two or three drops drank cureth the Colic, outwardly used assuageth the swelling of the Spleen, by mixing two or three drops with Oil of Fennel-seed, and anointing the Temples cures the grievous pains in the Head. If it be drank in Sweet-Marjorum water moves Venery, cures Catarrhs, Rheums, helps a cold and moist brain, strengthens those parts by anointing two or three drops at a time upon the crown; helps Swooning Trances, by taking one drop upon the tongue. It brings down women's Courses, brings forth the child alive or dead, helps the palpitrations of the Heart.    

Oil of Mace.  
THis Oil is made as the Oil of Cinnamon.  

The Virtues.  
It hath great virtues against the Colic that cometh of cold, and against Rheums. It comforteth the Heart, Stomach, and Womb, the Palpitrations of the Heart, Obstruction of the Bladder, the Strangury, by drinking three or four drops fasting, in a convenient Vehecle, or it may be made into Lozenges.    

Oil of Pepper.  
THis Oil is made as the Oil of Cinnamon.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil is hot and penetrating, it is good in windy Obstructions, the Colic or phlegmatic Humours; two or three drops drank it cures Agues, and is beneficial in all cold effects of the body.    

Oil of Saffron.  
THis Oil of Saffron is made as the Oil of Cinnamon.  

It's Virtues.  
It is good in Pestilential Fevers, and against hot burning of the Body, Head, the Apoplexy, the Vertigo, the Hypocondraick Melancholy, the Cramp, or Convulsion of the Sinews, the Lethargy, Catarrh, Hoarseness, Squinancy, the pain of the Teeth; it corroborates the Heart, helpeth the beating or panting. It helpeth Sadness or Sighing, without manifest cause; it increaseth lust, and helpeth sterility: it stoppeth the running Hemroids, hinders Miscarriages in women, strengthens the children in the womb, helpeth the hardness of the Spleen, Colic, Jaundice, the Sciatica, Erysipelas; the Temples anointed helpeth a drunken man, cures St. Antony's fire. It stoppeth the running of the eyes, one dropped mixed with women's milk and dropped in. The Temples anointed cureth Madness, causeth rest, cleanseth old Sores.    

To make Oil of Bay-berries.  
TAke of the best ripe Berries six lb, put them into a glass body, and pour there so much good strong Wine as will overtop it eight inches, put to every pound of Berries the powder of Tartar two ℥, and decrepitated Salt one ℥, let it stand close covered in a warm place eight days, than put on a Still head, and distil the same in Sand, according to Art, with a moderate fire first, after increasing the same until almost all be come forth, pour than into the Sand warm water, continually supplying it as it evaporates, that the matter burn not in the Glass, and so distil until the matter be all come over; separate than the Oil from the Spirit, and keep them both for your use. By these ways may Oils of all Berries be extracted.   

Oil of Bay-berries.  
THis Oil is made as the Oil of Cinnamon.  

It's Virtues.  
It is good to be used for the Megrim, the Colic, cold and rawness of the Stomach, the Hemroids, the pains of the Womb; helpeth cold effects of the Nerves and Joints, the Iliack Passion, the Lethargy; it is good against the Quotidian and Tertian Fevers, anointing the Backbone a little before the Fit.    

To make Oil of Juniper-berries.  
TAke ten lb of Juniper-berries bruised in a Mortar until they be mashed, put them in a Still-body, pour upon them so much water until it come within six inches of full, then lute on the head fast to the body, and to the Worm, make a moderate fire according to art, and there will come over a water and Aetherial Oil swimming on the top, which carefully separate that it mix not with the water, and keep it for your use.   

Oil of Juniper-berries.  

It's Virtues.  
THis Oil separated and well rectified, doth excel almost all other Oils, for it penetrateth through all the fleshy parts, the Veins, Nerves, and Bones, makes all Wounds and Ulcers apt and fit for healing, being drank every morning, or taken in warm Broth, it preserveth the body in health, it restores crooked, contracted, dead Members caused by the Palsy. It takes away the black spots that are in the flesh after healing in Wounds or Ulcers. It healeth Cancers, Fistulas, Cramps, Swell, old Ulcers, trembling of the Members, pains in the Side or Loins, it resisteth poison and the Plague itself. It helpeth Imposthumes of the Liver, Spleen, Lungs, applying it outwardly, and taking it inwardly every day. It helpeth much sweeting, by taking one ℈ thereof with warm Wine and Vinegar fasting in the morning. It disperseth phlegmatic humours from the stomach, helpeth the Appetite to meat or drink. It expelleth all Fevers from the root, mundifies the Reinss, breaks the Stone, helpeth the Decentery, Swelling of the Belly. It killeth Worms, it cures the Colic, Fits of the Mother, Running Gout, being Elixirated with its fixed Salt, it causes much Urine without pain, brings forth Gravel, consumes the Stone, cures the Dropsy, helpeth the Strangury.    

Oil of Calamus Aromaticus.  
TAke the newest and sweetest, make it very thin in subtle slices, and bruise it very well in a covered Mortar, than put it in a long body of Glass, and to every pound put of Tartar and decrepitated Salt, of each two ℥, mix them well, and pour thereon so much clear Fountain-water as will overtop the materials a hands breadth, lute fast a blinde-head, and digest it in a horse belly, or B. M. for twenty days, than put in a Retort, and in Sand distil it with a gentle fire for four or five hours, after increase it until all the liquid substance be come of; separate the Oil from the Water, keep the Oil close stopped.  

It's Virtues.  
It comforts the Memory, taketh away the Head pains and Catarrhs proceeding of cold, it helpeth the weakness of the Stomach, cures Swooning, or those fallen into a trance, stayeth Vomiting, moveth the Terms, taketh away the suffocation of the Matrix, mundifies and opens obstructions of the Reinss, breaketh the Stone, stayeth involuntary fluxes of the Seed and of the Urine; it restoreth the Hair, and preventeth Doting, Madness, and Melancholy.    

Oil of Zedory.  
THis Oil may be made as those aforesaid.  

It's Virtues.  
It hath a peculiar power against contagious and evil Vapours exhaled from the Earth, infecting the Spirits and natural Faculties: It cures biting and stinging of venomous Creatures, it cureth Ulcers and wounds, whether by stroke or gunshot, it resolveth all Tumour both inward and outward; it restores the Matrix to its place, i● penetrates the Lungs, assuageth the Cough cureth the Asthmatick, great difficulty o● Breathing, Wheasing; correcteth the stinking mouth, helpeth concoction, it strengthens the Head, kills Worms, retaineth the fruit in the womb, and preventeth abortion▪    

Oil of Roses.  
TAke the most fragrant Roses, Damask or others, take the leaves with the whole Knots yellow in the middle of the Roses. To every pound of these put Sugar-candy and decrepitated Salt of each two ℥, grind and beaten them well in a marble Mortar, than put them into a Body, and pour thereon a good quantity of good sweet Rose-water, cover it very close, and set it to putrify in some warm place for the space of three months, than put them into the Distilling-vessel, and distil it according to Art, and you have Oil and Water, separate them, and keep them close stopped.  

It's Virtues.  
It prevaileth against all pains in the Head, by anointing the Temples therewith; it mitigates violent Fevers by the same way: likewise using it about the region of the Heart, and a few drops drank, but if it be mixed with the Tincture of Gold, it is yet more excellent, for it purges the blood wonderfully, and roots out the Leprosy.    

Oil of Fennel-seed.  
THis Oil may be made as that of Calamus Aromaticus.  

It's Virtues.  
It comforts the Brain, helps the Weak-sighted, it helps the Memory, increaseth milk in Nurses, cuts Phlegm, diminisheth the Stone, resisteth poison, cures the Falling-sickness, pains in the Eyes, insomuch that if a man were almost blind, it would recover him, dropping one drop or two in the eyes morning or evening; helpeth the Dropsy, Jaundice, provoketh Urine and the Terms, comforts the Stomach, breaketh wind.    

To make Oil of Anniseeds, or Caraway-seeds.  
TAke Anniseeds, what quantity you please, put them in a Long-body, being grossly beaten, pour thereon so much strong Wine as will cover the Seeds in a Long-body, put on a Blinde-head, and set it eight days in digestion, than take of the Blind, and put on an Alembick head, lute it fast, and likewise to the Receiver, distil in moist Sand, as in the Oil of Bay-berries, and there will come over Oil and Water.  

Oil of Anniseeds, or Caraway-seeds.  
Their Virtues.  
THese Oils have one and the same virtue, they are good against the Vertigo, helps Catarrhs distilling upon the breast, Indigestion, Wind in the Stomach, the Dropsy, Flux of the Womb, the Hearing, not above three years standing, if one drop of either of these Oils be mixed with one drop of Oil of bitter Almonds, and put in the Ears every morning. It helpeth the want of Appetite, by taking two drops morning and evening in Broth for some time; It helpeth difficulty of breathing, it opens Obstructions of the Liver, comforts the Inwards, preserves from the Apoplexy, and Palsy; It preserveth children from Convulsions, or Falling-sickness, by giving two drops in Capon-water, or with Oil of sweet Almonds, every morning; It is good for women that have not their Courses in due order, or for the vapour or windiness in the Womb. It comforts the Matrix, and bringeth forth the Birth. It stayeth yexing and belching. In Plague time it is good to take two or three drops every morning, it expels fears and sadness, it prevents poisoning; it is good for those that cannot sleep quietly, helps difficulty of Urine; it prevents the Dropsy, by taking daily four drops in the Water of Juniper-berries; It causeth a sweet Breath, it helps Venery, helps Bloodyflux, the Piles; it driveth forth poison by sweat, 'tis good in the Stone; Chests or places anointed with this Oil, no Moth will come near.    

Oil of Dill.  
THis is made as aforesaid.  

It's Virtues.  
It expels wind in the Bowels, helpeth Gripes in the Belly, increaseth Milk, stayeth Vomiting, Lasks, provokes Urine, helpeth suffocation of the Matrix, the Fumes conveyed into the body; it stayeth yex or belching, it digests, resolves, and assuageth pains; it ripens Humours, helpeth hollow moist Ulcers, if it be used much inwardly, diminisheth the Seed, and hurts the sight.    

Oil of Cummin-seed.  
THis Oil is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It expels Wind out of the body, is good for griping pains in the Guts, used inwardly by mouth, and by Clyster, and to be laid outwardly with Barley-meal. It helpeth biting of venomous Beasts, being made up in Lozenges is good for Coughs, opens Obstructions, and causes a lively colour being often used.    

Oil of Parsley-seed.  
THis Oil is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It opens Obstructions of the Liver and Kidneys, being drank. It helpeth the Dropsy, maketh a good Digestion, drives out Gravel, provokes Urine, expels wind, and is good in the Stone.    

To make Oil of Rosemary Flowers.  
TAke Rosemary Flowers what you please stamp them, and put them into a Glass, and pour good wine thereon, and stopping it very close, set it in a warm place ten days, and than distil it in ashes in a soft fire, and so thou shalt have Oil and Water, which separate; keep the Oil close stopped.  

Oil of Rosemary Flowers.  
It's Virtues.  
IT helps the Vertigo and trembling of the Arteries, if they proceed of Cold; it expels pestilential Fevers, provoketh Sweated, drives out Poison, helps the yellow Jaundice, the pains of the head though of many years standing: It stoppeth the Whites in women constantly and preserveth Health, comforts the Brain, increaseth the Memory, fortifieth the Sinews and Veins, resisteth all troubles of Spirit, helpeth defluxions of Humours, the Apoplexy, Palsy, Epelepsy, Convulsions; It helpeth Coughs and Hoarseness of the Throat, and soarness of the Breast, the Consumption and all diseases of the Breast and Lungs, it is most excellent for Palpitrations, or pains at the heart, restores and strengthens the Vitals, it cures Agues, being taken before the Fit, and the Stomach, Spleen, and Backbone first anointed with the same, and than laid to sweated: It helpeth Digestion, Flux, looseness, recovers all Pains and Griefs in the Kidneys, Uretters, or Bladder, and is a most strong remedy against the Gravel in Kidneys or Bladder, taken in Rhenish-wine. It helpeth the Colic, it strengthens the Optic Nerves, helpeth the dazzling of the Eyes, strengthens the Sight, by drinking every morning two or three drops, and putting one drop into the Eyes, causeth pleasant sleep and driveth away all vain imaginations; It comforts the Heart, cleanseth the Blood, and thereby cureth Itch, Scabs; It maketh merry and causeth good Colours and a cheerful Countenance, it freeth Children from the Worms by applying it to the Navel and Belly. It taketh away all causes that hinder Conception, provoketh women's Courses, helpeth all diseases of the Matrix, the Green Sickness, it helpeth all Defluxions, Feebleness, Weariness, debility of Members, Gouts of the Joints, helpeth the Toothache, Deafness, causeth Hair to grow, and hinders the falling of. It is an assured Remedy for any Sore or Ulcer in the Nostrils, Nolimetangere, Pollipus, etc. It helpeth all diseases coming of cold and moist Humours, though never so evil; helpeth the Cancer, and Fistula and such like, a dead Body inbalmed with this will not corrupt in many years, 'tis approved a most excellent Medicine, and of a grateful taste.    

Oil of Rue.  
THis is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It resists Poison, helpeth the biting of venomous Beasts, it helpeth all diseases of the Eyes, one drop or two used in its own Water; it helpeth the Gout, Dropsy coming of a cold cause; It restoreth benumbed Members taken with the Palsy.    

Oil of Ive  
IS made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
Made into Lozenges, it cureth Consumption of the Lungs, Coughs, Catarrhs, shortness of Breath, Wheasing, the Colic, tw● or three drops drank helpeth the Cramp▪ and shrinking of the Sinews, the Falling-Sickness, Dropsy, Gout, Ulcers, Scabs▪ Itch; It provoketh Urine, stayeth Vomiting, breaketh the Stone, killeth Worms, helpeth chaps in the Hands, 'tis good against the Pestilence; those that drink often of it, it expels the Poison. It strengthens the inward Parts, stops women's Terms, it being anointed from the Navel of a woman to the Priveties, and the reinss of the Back, it strengthens the Matrix, drieth up the superfluous Moisture, and prepareth it for Conception.    

Oil of Wild Time.  
THis is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It cureth Poisons, bitings of venomous Beasts, Stinging: if applied to the Forehead & Temples, with Oil of Roses and Vinegar, ●t taketh away the Headache and Ravening Frenzy, it bringeth down women's Courses, helpeth Gripe of the bowels and Cramps.    

Oil of Garden Time.  
THis is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
If three or four drops be drank in conve●nient Liquor, it cureth the painful Cough, shortness of Breath, provoketh Urine, i● expelleth Birth, and Afterbirth dead o● alive, provoketh Terms, dissolveth congealed Blood. Helpeth the Sciatica, wind in the Sides or any part of the Body, cureth the Gout, taken with Oximel: it ripens Phlegm.    

Oil of sweet Marjerom.  
IT is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
If drank in White-wine hinders the coming of the Dropsy, helpeth such as cannot piss but by Drops, helpeth the Gripes, Convulsion, Epilepsy, provoketh women's Terms; If a little of this Oil with Oil o● bitter Almonds snuffed up the Nostrils, purges the head, helpeth those that have lost their Smelling, the Apoplexy; It helpeth the stinging of Scorpions.    

Oil of Sage.  
IT is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It helpeth congealed Blood in the Body, provoketh Urine, comforts the Heart, eases the Stone, the Headache, bloody Flux, ●●ting of venomous Beasts, women with child, useing a little in drink; It hinders abortion or Miscarriage, and causeth the ●ruit to be retained; It maketh women fruitful, it helpeth the Palsy, Apoplexy, ●●d Obstructions of the Liver.    

Oil of Penerial.  
THis is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It bringeth down women's Courses, rangeth forth both Birth and Afterbirth, ●●ovoketh Urine, breaketh the Stone in 〈◊〉 Kidneys, used in Honey or made up in lozenges; easeth the Lungs and Breast ●●●m tough Phlegm and gross Humours, it ●●●peth the Cramp and the Contracture of ●●●ews, if it be drank with raw Vinegar stayeth Vomiting, and the gnawing ●●ns of the Stomach; drank with wine and ●●plyed likewise, helpeth the biting of ve●●mous Beasts; It is good against the Falling-sickness, the Temples and Nostrils a●●ynted with the same; It taketh away ●●●ming Pains and Giddiness of the Head, 'tis good for those whose Brains exceed i● Moisture. It easeth the Pain of the Gou● the Fumes helps the Windiness and hardness of the Mother.    

Oil of Mints.  
THis is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It warmeth and strengtheneth the Stomach, drieth up superfluous Moisture helpeth Vomiting, and helpeth those th●● Vomit Blood, being drank with Rose Vin●ger, helpeth the Gripes, Colic, stoppe● over flowing of the Menstruums, 'tis go●● against Gravel, Disury and Strangury.    

The Oil of Peony-Seeds.  
THis Oil is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It is singular good in the Falling-sickness, not only for those of younger ye●● but for the more aged, taken in a conve●●ent Vehecle, for forty days fasting in 〈◊〉 morning.    

Oil of Spike, or Lavender.  
IT is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It is used in Griefs and Pains of the Head coming of cold Cause, as the Apoplexy, Falling-sickness, drowsy or sluggish Malady Cramps, Convulsions, Palsies, Fainting, provoketh women's Courses, expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth, helpeth the Colic, and difficulty in making of Water, Toothache, smelled unto and applied to the Nostril and Temples, helpeth Fainting and Swoonings.    

Oil of Wormwood.  
IT is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It provoketh Urine, helpeth Surfeits, swelling of the Belly, causeth Appetite, preserveth health; 'tis good in the Quinsy, biting and sting by venomous Beasts, hardness of the Spleen, windy obstruction of the whole body, stinking Breath, dull Brain.    

Oil of Tobacco.  
IT may be made by itself, or by the Addition of Water.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil is rarely used inwardly by reason of the noisomeness outwardly, it helpeth the Megrim, Headache, pains in the Bowels, and Mother-fits, Toothache, Kings-evil, biting of venomous Beasts, Worms in Children, Cramps, Aches, Sciatica, Itch, Scabs, Ulcers, Cankers, foul Sores, Wound, and old Ulcers, Impostumes, hard Swell, Lice, Wounds with venomous Darts, biting of venomous Creatures. The last remaining in the Ashes, being Clarified and Inbibed with its own Oil, and made up in some fit Troches, the quantity of half a Grain in each, and one taken every morning will help the Body soluble.    

Oil of Clary.  
IT is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It cleareth the Eyes and strengthens them, strengthens the Back, pulls out Thorns or Splinters, allays Swell, provoketh Lust, brings down women's Courses. It doth alloy Felons, Boils, bringeth forth Birth and Afterbirth, excicates Phlegm.     

Particular ways of making the Oils of Gums and Rozins, etc.  

To make Oil of Mastic.  
TAke good Mastic, grind it into a most subtle powder, put it in a Bolt-head, or Long-body, and pour thereon so much Spirit of Wine as will overtop it six fingers breadth, lute it close and digest it in a horse belly, or St. Mary's Bath, for eight and forty hours, or until the Spirit be singed, which than decant and filter. Pour upon the Fecies more Spirit of Wine, and set again in digestion, and repeat this work of Infusion, Digestion, and Separation, until all be dissolved. Put all the tinged Spirits together, and stop the Glass close they are in, than take forth the Fecies, if any be, and mix therewith fine white Sand, put it into a Retort, and pour thereon all the tinged Spirits, place it in Sand, lute a Receiver, and by a very gentle heat distil of the Spirits, and than increase the fire by degrees, until all be come of, than separate the Oil from the Spirit, than apply to the Receiver again, well lute, and by a most strong fire distil of a read Oil.   

To make Oil of Mastic another way.  
TAke of Mastic one lb, of white Sand one lb, decrepitated Salt one handful, mix them well, put them in a Retort, whereunto lute a Receiver which hath in it one pint of fair water, than distil it first with a moderate heat until the white fumes be come over, and they begin to come read. Change the Receiver, and apply another Receiver, making a strong fire, and distil from them a read Oil like a Ruby, and at last a blackish Balsam to be used outwardly; the Oil and Water rectify per B. M. and separate the Oil from the phlegm; keep it close stopped.   

To make Oil of Mastic another way.  
TAke powdered Mastic, fill the half part of a Retort with the same; pour upon the same so much Spirit of Salt as will over-top the same, than place it in Sand, give fire by degrees, and there will come over first some phlegm, and after a clear transparent Oil, together with the Spirit of Salt, which keep by itself; after this a certain yellow Oil, which receive by itself; and after a read Oil.  

The Virtue of the Oil of Mastic.  
THis Oil is good against a hot doting brain, and also a cold brain; restoreth the Memory, helpeth a cold Stomaches stuffing and choking with Phlegm, Catarrhs; it comforteth the Liver and all the ; it helpeth against vomiting Blood, it consumes and helpeth all inward Sores, Bruises, Imposthumations, stoppeth Fluxes and women's Terms, by drinking and often anointing the belly; helpeth the pain of the back, Pushes, Chaps, Piles, Swell of the Fundament, and against the falling down of the Womb, Matrix, it being anointed therewith, and also the bottom of the belly, and after putting it up; it helpeth the superfluous and preternatural redness in the Face, and all other parts. It amends Deafness, and Weakness of Sight, restoreth lost Smelling; it opens the obstructions and passages of the Nostrils and the Brain, the Scurvy and putrefaction of the Gums, and the exulceration of the tongue. It preventeth women's Breasts from growing over great; 'tis good for the Bursten, by anointing the place, and after wearing a Truss. It helpeth fresh Wounds.    

Oil of Myrrh.  
THis Oil is made as the first Oil of Mastic.  

It's Virtues.  
It corroborates the Brain and cold Stomach, expels wind in the body, and causeth to go to stool; It expels tough Phlegm, helpeth difficulty of breathing, the Lethargy, Forgetfulness, and sleepy Disease; It expelleth Worms, and stoppeth too much flowing of women's Courses. It preserveth the sight of the Eyes; two or three drops put therein, helpeth pains of the Ears. It maketh a sweet Breath, cleareth the Voice, stoppeth the Flux of the belly, comforts the Gums and Teeth, stayeth the Hair from falling. Oil of liquid Storax is made the same way, and the virtues are the same.    

Oil of Storax Calamite.  
THis is made as the Oil of Mastic.  

It's Virtues.  
It comforts the Breasts, Lungs, and inward parts, three or four drop● drank, and the place anointed with the same; It stops Catarrhs that fall upon the Breast & Lungs; It maketh a man merry, addeth courage; It taketh away singing of the Ears.    

To make Oil of Benjamin.  
DIssolve Benjamin in Spirit of Wine, and than distil it as in the second Oil of Mastic, or pour upon the Solution Spirit of Salt, and distil it as in the third way of Oil of Mastic; 'tis chief used in Perfumes.   

To make Oil of Galbanum.  
TAke good Albanum, put it into a Bolt-head, pour upon the same some Spirit of Wine, stop it close, let it be resolved in B. M. pour it than in a Retort with fine white Sand, and distil the same with a Sand-kettle, and distil of the Spirit with a fair yellow Oil, which reserve.  

It's Virtues.  
'Tis good against old Coughs, Short-windedness, or difficult breathing; it is good for such as are bruised within, Cramps and shrinking of Sinews, if it be drank with Oil of Myrrh; It helpeth against poison, or venom drank, or Shots with venomous Darts, or the biting of Adders or Snakes; It provoketh women's Courses, bringeth forth the dead Child, Birth, and Afterbirth, applied to the Navel bringeth the Matrix to his natural place. It moistens and softens, and draweth forth Thorns and Splints in the flesh; it helpeth the hardness of the Milt, or Spleen. The Perfume of this Oil driveth away Serpents, no Beast will have power to seize him that is anointed all over with this Oil.    

Oil of Sagapenum.  
THis dissolved in Wine, or Spirit of Wine, is made as the Oil of Galbanum  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil is good for the Stitch in the side, it helpeth the Cough, Cramps, Hip-pains of cold; being drank in Wine is good against Poison, and is also good against the biting of the Adder: Women with child aught not to use it.    

Oil of Opopanax.  
IT is made as that of Galbanum.  

It's Virtues.  
This helpeth Coughs, Stiches in the side, helpeth wind in the Matrix, and causeth a speedy Delivery to women.    

Oil of Euphorbium.  
THis Oil is made as aforesaid.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil is too hot to be used inwardly, outwardly mixed with some Honey, and applied to the Navel, purges the Belly; It draweth out thorns out of the flesh, it helpeth stiffness in the Joints coming of cold, and the stinging of Adders.    

To make Oil of Amber.  
YOu may distil this Oil of Amber as the Oil of Mastic; Or, take one lb. of Amber grossly powdered, and three parts of fine white Sand, mix them well, and put them in a coated Retort of Glass, and applying a large Receiver well luted, being set in an open fire, distil it with a very small fire for the first eight hours, than let it be increased for six hours more, and after make the fire as strong as possible you may, until all be come over, or the Receiver be clear. The work being ended, take of the Receiver, and pour the Oil with the volatile Salt into a Retort, wherein put calcined Tartar about half the weight, place it in Sand and lute it to a Receiver. Make a small fire under, and first will come over a white Spirit, or Phlegm, and next to it the true Oil of Amber of a yellow colour: but when it gins to come read, take of the Receiver, apply another, and receive the read Balsam by itself. This read Balsam is used only in Cataplasms, or Balsams; or in the Fits of the Mother, one drop drank is good.  

The Virtue of the true Oil of Amber.  
If this Oil be rectified from calcined Tartar four or five times, it is of a most admirable virtue; three or four drops given in a morning, it profits against the Apoplexy, or Swooning-fits; but in time of the Fit rub the tongue of the Diseased, anoint the Pulses, the Nostrils, and let them drink some down into the body. It helpeth the Cramp, Epilepsy, and Suffocations of the Matrix anointed outwardly, and taken inwardly in Betony-water, or Lozenges may be made with some of this Oil in them. If you anoint the Nape of the Neck and Nostrils, it stayeth Catarrhs of the Head, it correcteth the malignant Air, especially in the Plague, if you take of this Oil and Oil of Cloves alike, mix them and dip some Cotten into them, and use to smell to the same often. It sendeth forth both Birth and Afterbirth, alive or dead, if from ten gr. to one ℈ be given at a time in Varvain or Mugwort water, or Mamsie. It prohibiteth and driveth away Mother-fits, and the Suffocation of the Matrix, or Strangling of the Womb, if a few drops be used to the Nostrils, and about the Region of the Heart, Breast, and Navel, and by taking of it six gr. of Oil of Cummin-seed, as much in Fennel-water. It helpeth grief or pains in the Arteries, Veins, or Sinews, the Cramp or such like Contractures, or Weakness, by mixing it with some proper Balsam, and using it warm. It cleanseth the Bladder, Reinss, provoketh Urine, if it be drank in Rhenish Wine, or Parsley-water. It is good in the Plague, or those that have drank poison, if from 1 ℈ to 2 ℈ be drank in a Cardus-posset, and so sweated in a bed; and thus it cureth any other Fevers, either Quotidian, Tertian, or Quartan, etc. It helpeth Fainting, Swooning, Palpitrations of the Heart, Swimming of the Head, by drinking three or four drops in Piony-water.  
It strengthens the Heart, fortifies the Liver, and drieth up Rheums in the body, if it be drunk in Balm-water. It cureth the yellow Jaundice, if taken in Endive-water, or Succory, or Celendine.  
It helpeth the Colic, one ℈ taken and some applied to the grieved part. It bringeth down women's Courses, seven or eight drops taken often in Balm-water. It cureth the Vertigo, and Dimness of Sight.  
It removeth the dulness of the Brain, and pricking in the Side, by drinking seven or eight drops in Wine. It cureth the pains in the Teeth, coming of Rheums, if it be mixed with Plantine Water, and therewith gargarize the Teeth and Gums. If it be taken about twenty drops, with fifteen drops of Oil of Cinnamon in a proper Vehicle, and the party lie still in the bed, it taketh all symptoms of the After-pains in women: the general Dose is from three drops to thirty drops.    

Oil of Amoniac.  
Oil of Gum Amoniac is made as that of Galbanum.  

It's Virtues.  
It helpeth the Cough coming of moisture, it purgeth the Breast, and helpeth Ulcers there, it dissolveth hardness and swell, taketh away the pains of the Gout, and used with Oil of Wormwood upon the Navel, killeth the Worms.    

Oil of Sarcocolla.  
THis Oil is made as the former.  

It's Virtues.  
It is an excellent Balsamic Oil in all Wounds, it filleth them with flesh, and purges all old Sores without pain, breaketh hard Imposthumes; it helpeth those that abound with phlegmatic humours.    

To make Oil of Castor.  
TAke the fattest, cut it very small and thin, put it into a Bolt-head, pour thereto rectified Aqua Vitae so much as will cover the same, lute it close, and set it in B. M. two days, or till it be resolved, than pour it into a Long-body, and fasten on a Head close, set it in B. M. and lute a Receiver, distil of the Spirit of Wine, and the Oil remaineth, in which Oil put three times its weight of fine Sand, and par-Retort in Sand, distil of all the Oil, which rectify and keep for use.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil is good against all cold Cramps, Palsies, being mixed with Vinegar and put up the Nostrils comforteth the Brain, taketh away the pains of the Head, the Falling-sickness, it provoketh women's Courses; 'tis excellent in the Apoplexy, it moveth Venery, it cureth the Colic, strengthens the natural parts, helpeth the Suffocation of the Matrix, and helpeth Convulsions.    

Of making Oil of Frankincense.  
THis may be made with Spirit of Salt, or thus: Take of Incense one lb. and two lb. of purified Sand, let them be well mixed, put it into a Retort, set it in Sand, and apply a Receiver close luted, making a gentle fire under until all the substance be come forth, separate the Oil for your use, and likewise the Water.  

It's Virtues.  
The Water of itself, if drunk, cureth the Wind in the Stomach, it helpeth Chaps in the Hands and Feet, if they be washed therewith, and after applying the Oil warm before the fire at night going to bed, than put on a pair of Gloves, and keep them on all night.  
It certainly helpeth simple Wounds, it preserveth flesh from putrifying, taketh away all Pains, helpeth all Bruises.    

To make Oil of Turpentine.  
TAke good Turpentine one part, and three parts of good clean Sand, mix them well in a Retort, or other Distilling-vessel, lute the Joint very close, place it in Sand, and fasten on a Receiver; make first a small fire, and after increasing the fire to the height, until all the substance be come forth, and the Receiver be clear; take away the Receiver, and pour the matter in a Retort upon calcined Tartar. Set it in Sand, and apply a Receiver luted, make a small fire, and there will come over a pure, clear, white, crystalline Spirit, and after it a yellowish Oil, which being all come, which you may know by the colour, which at last will come read, change the Receiver, make a fire to the height, and draw of the Balsamic Oil; reserve each by itself.  

The Virtue of the Oils of Turpentine.  
The yellowish Oil of Turpentine helpeth obstructions and stops of the Urine, 'tis good against all Pains or Griefs in the Back and Loins, proceeding of Cold. It helpeth the Stone, pissing of Blood, and against cold Catarrhs, breaketh wind, dissolveth the Pleurisy, helpeth Appetite, the Stomach anointed, helpeth stinking breath.  
The read Oil is good outwardly against waiting, pining Members, Contractures of Sinews, and also against wandering, running Pains and Aches of the Joints; it helpeth fresh Wounds in four and twenty hours.    

Oil of the Philosophers, Or the blessed Oil.  
TAke new Bricks never touched with water, break them into pieces a little bigger than a Walnut, burn each piece in the fire until it be almost read hot, than quench them in oil-olive, and this putting in of hot Brick use until all your Oil be inbibed with the pieces of Bricks; put these pieces of Bricks in a coated Retort, set it over a naked fire, and apply a large Receiver close luted, and distil it according to Art, in sixteen or twenty hours you obtain a white Phlegm, a yellow Oil, and read Oil, which you may rectify from calcined Tartar four or five times.   

Oleum Sanctum, or Oil of Bricks.  
TAke new pieces of Bricks, and break them in little pieces, and put them into a large Crucible, and heat them almost read hot, and quench them in a Wooden Bowl almost full of old oil-olive, and therein let them lie until they be cold, than take them out and quench more therein, and this do till all the Oil is inbibed in the pieces of Bricks, after powder them and put them into a coated Retort, and pour into the Retort so much more oil-olive as may surmount the powder of Bricks a finger in thickness, and than put into the same Castorum, of Spikenard, of Rose-seeds, anna one eight part (after they are well pounded and bruised) mix them well with the Powder and Oil, and set it in a warm place for forty days; which ended, set them over a naked fire, and lute thereto a large Receiver, after make a fire under, which must be very soft and gentle at first, and by degrees increase the fire, at last force over all by a strong fire; at first will come over a water white, when it gins to come yellow than change your Receiver and lute fast another, and there will come a yellow Oil; when it gins to come read, change the Receiver again, and reserve it by itself; rectify the yellow Oil from calcined Tartar four or five times.  

It's Virtues.  
The yellow Oil well rectified, helpeth all cold Distempers whatsoever, the Falling-sickness, the Palsy, Vertigo, Lethargy, and Forgetfulness. It provoketh Urine, breaketh the Stone, and killeth Worms; It helpeth singing of the Ears, proceeding of gross wind, the Sciatica, or Aches in the Hanch-bone, the Gout in the Hand, Knees, or Feet, weak Back, hardness of the Spleen, being drank fasting, and the place anointed very warm by a fire. It heateth the Brain, helpeth Memory, assuageth the , brings down women's Courses, cause safe delivery to them, brings forth the Child alive or dead. It dissolveth congealed blood, and purges the Lungs, and helpeth them that draw their breath painfully, by drinking a few drops with Syrup of Roses. It resisteth cold poison, as the sting of Scorpions, Adders, etc. cureth them that have taken black Poppies, or Henbane, into the body.    

To make Oil of Wax.  
TAke the best yellow Wax, melt the same in an Earthen Glasen Pan, and put into it three parts of Vitriol calcined white, mix it well and put it into a coated Retort, set it over a naked fire and lute fast a Receiver, make a small fire, and raise it by degrees until all the Oil be come forth, which will be yellow and very clear, which rectify from calcined Tartar two or three times.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil cureth all wounds by anointing and applying a cloth wet in the same in few days mollifieth and pacifieth Ulcers, it penetrateth and resolveth them, it mitigates to admiration all pains in the Gout, and Joynt-Aches, it helpeth Ulcers, Chaps in women's Nipples, instantly it assuages all Swell, it restoreth crooked and contracted Members, it cureth women's Breasts that swell and are Ulcerated. By applying this Oil with Oil of sweet Almonds, cureth the Bursten, applied warm morning and evening, and than a Truss used. It stayeth the Hair from falling, and causeth it to grow, it provoketh Urine, cureth the Colic, helpeth the Sciatica, Stitches, and all other griefs of Cold.    

The Quintessence of Honey.  
TAke of good Honey one part, and three parts of pure clean Sand, mix them well, and pour upon the same good Spirit of Wine, that it overtop it three fingers. Put upon it a Blinde-head, stop it very close, and digest it seven days, than take of the Blinde-head, put on an Alimbeck-head, and lute it fast to the Body and to the Receiver, place it in sand, and distil by a small fire all the spirit of Wine, and when the white Fumes arise, change the Receivers, and wet the head of the Alimbeck with a cloth, and there will come over a white Water and a read Oil, and keep it thus distilling until all the read Oil be come of, the Recever cold, than put it in a Retort, and rectify it for six or seven ●imes, and 'twill be of the colour of Gold, ●aving a grateful Taste, and pleasing Smell.  

It's Virtues.  
This is of such Virtue that if any drink thereof, he will recover presently, let his ●isease be what it will; If you wash any Wound therewith, 'twill heal quickly, it is good against Coughs, Catarrhs, and pains ●f the Spleen, and many other Diseases; ●n short it is a Medicine whereby the Physician will get both honour and credit.    

Quintessence of Man's Blood.  
TAke of the Blood of a young sound Man, of which there is enough to be got at Spring and Fall, from such as let Blood for recreation, or as they say, for prevention of diseases; of this four pound, let it stand a while, and separate the Water and put to the blood of decripitated Salt, Spermaceti, of the marrow of an Ox, anna one pound, chafe and mix them very well, put them in a glass Long-body, with a Blind-head close luted, set it in a Horse-belly or B.M. for forty days, than take it out and distil the same in ashes, (applying a Still-head and Receiver close luted) to seven, times every time returning what is distilled upon the Fecies, and there will issue out first a white Water, next a pale, and the third a yellow, and lastly a read Oil somewhat thick, put them all together in a Vessel close covered with a Blind-head, circulate it again forty days in a Horse-bell or B.M. and they will become most grateful and of sweet savour.  

It's Virtues.  
If you give about three or four drops to a sick man with a little Wine, although he was almost deprived of all his strength, and speechless, yet would he become strong, and speak again; If a man every day shall drink one drop of this Oil with Wine, he shall become well in Mind, and sound in Body throughout all his Members, and shall prorogue and put of Age very long, he cannot be hurt with Poison; It healeth the Leprosy, Morphew, Palsy, and such like Diseases; If one drop be drank every day in Wine, 'tis admirably profitable in the Hectic Favour, if taken in some appropicated Julip, or Medicine for that purpose; it preserveth the Body from all Sicknesses, by using thereof daily, and helpeth not only some but every inward Disease; It cureth the Epilepsy or Falling-Sickness by drinking one ℈ every day in Peony Water for thirty days, if they begin at the new of the Moon. It cureth old Ulcers, Fistulaes', Bruises, being used both inward and outward.    

Oil of the Blood of a Stag.  
TAke new fresh Blood, put it into a Retort, put to it calcind Tartar, and apply a large Receiver close luted, make a gentle fire, that first the Phlegm may come over, which being come of, apply another Receiver, and urge the fire a little more until the Oil and volatile Salt be come of in the neck of the Retort, which mix with the Oil, and seven times rectify it from calcined Tartar, keeping the Oil for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
It expelleth the very matter of the Gout fundamentally by stool, by taking some few drops in its appropriated Liquor.    

Oil of Lignum Vitae, or Guaiacum.  
THis may be made parsee, or by the general process of Oils, by help of common Water, decripitated Salt, and Tartar:  

It's Virtues.  
Your Oil must be made without addition, if you intent to have the Salt pure. The water that cometh over first with the Oil may be drank in Wine, the Oil is to anoint Sores or Aches, and the Salt is to purge the Blood, and the Order to use it is thus; In the Gout, Pox, or Palsy, take one ℈ of the Salt, and twenty three of Venice Treacle, and mix them well, and give of it to sweated, for it driveth out all Venomous and gross Humours; if any Sores be in the Body, mundify them first with the Salt, and after apply to it the Oil, also give them every morning in the bed, two spoonful of the Water with Rhenish-wine, and sweated thereon, and thus you may help the Pox, Gout, etc.    

Oil of Camphire.  
TAke Salt of Wormwood, and of Camphire, of each ℥ 1 lb of sweet Almonds three ℥, mix them well and put them into a Glass close stopped, in a moderate heat for two days. Than distil them par retort in Sand, and when all is come of, to the remainder in the retort put one ℥ more of the Salt of Wormwood, and pour in the Oil ●hat was distilled, and mix them again, and ●hen distil it; this do five or seven times, the Joints always well stopped, and you obtain a pure clear and effectual Oil.  

It's Virtues.  
It freeth and delivereth the infected with ●he Plague, by drinking four or five drops ●n Cardus Water, or other Proper Liquors, It helpeth Pains and Griefs of the Head, Swooning, or Trance. It helpeth the Colic, Vertigo, and Falling-Sickness, or Convulsions in Children, by drinking three or four drops in a proper Vehicle; 'tis good against all inflammations of any Part or Member being anointed. It happily cureth Wounds, otherwise incurable.    

To make Oil of Moss and Whites of Eggs.  
TAke a quantity of Eggs, boil them very hard, and take the Yolks from the Whites, stamp them in a Mortar, than put them into a Frying-pan, and set them over the fire upon a Trevet, and make a good fire under, keeping continually stirring them until it be turned to an Oil blackish, pour this matter separated from its Fecies into a pot, and keep it for your use, or rectify it par retort in Sand; It will come over as yellow as Gold. This Oil helpeth Wounds speedily, maketh Hair black, it taketh away the Pains of the Hemrhoids, it is most excellent for burn with fire, o● scalding with water.  
The White being beaten, and by help o● a Bolus distilled, yield a White Water somewhat ponderous, which cohobated upon, addeth to the fixation and giveth a coral-line colour.   

Elixir Proprietatis.  
TAke clear Aloes, of the best Myrrh, and of the best Saffron, of each one ℥, let the two former be exactly beaten, and let the Saffron be made into a round figure by pounsing, let them be put up in a large capatious Long-body, seal it up by melting the neck of the Glass, and setting it in Sand making a moderate heat under, that the Glass burst not, until you see the whole lump grow together in the bottom, and a clear Oil with Water circulated on the sides of the Glass, which will begin in three days, than let the Glass be opened, and pour into it one pint of highly rectified spirit of Cinnamon without Phlegm, lute it up again and set it in B. till all be resolved; than put therein three ℥ of Spirit of Sulphur, and close the Joints well again, and digest it until the Elixir swim on the top of the Spirit of wine, which separate by a Separating-Glass, and keep close stopped as a precicus Medicine.  

It's Virtues.  
This Elixir preserveth Bodies from Corruption, preserveth the same from future Diseases; It cureth every Disease incident to the Body of Man, neither is there any vegetable Medicine that doth exceed it. It most certainly cureth all Agues, the Quartain, continual, or any other Favour, Asthma, Falling-sickness, Palsy, Atrophia, Scabs, or Consumption of the Lungs.    

Rozin of jalap.  
TAke jalap well cleansed, dried, and powdered, put it into a Bolt-head, pour upon it very good Spirit of Wine, that it overtop the same a hands breadth, close up the head, set it in B. M. until your Tincture is coloured as read as Claret, in eight or ten hours pour of that and put on more, and about the same time it will again extract the Tincture, which pour of to the other, and if you please you may extract once again; put all your Tinctures filtrated into a Cucurbit, and by B. M. draw of more than the half of spirit of Wine, which may serve for the same work again. Take your Glass out of Baln●um and pour into it fair clear Water, and the jalap will precipitate to the bottom. Set it in B. M. again, and draw of the remaining Spirit of Wine, and the Water and jalap will be only left, which pour out in an earthen glazed Pan, and wash it three or four times with fair water; dry it gently before the fire or in hot embers. By the same rule is Scamony prepared, which may be made in Pills with Oil of Cloves, or ground to a very subtle powder with three parts of Cream of Tartar, and so may be dissolved in Water, Broth, or any Liquors, or mixed with Conserves of itself.  

It's Virtues.  
It's use is to evacuate superfluous Seriosities from all parts of the body, as the head and other parts; the dose is to gr. 20.    

Rozin of Scamony.  
TAke good Scamony, dissolve it in well rectified Spirit of Wine, and separate the Solution from Fecies. In B. M. abstract the half part of the Spirit of Wine, and to the remainder put cold fair water, and the Scamony will precipitate and become most white, the black matter will remain on the top, which separate and wash away. Than take the Gum, and wash it well, and dry it and keep it for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
This Powder is a most noble, pleasant, and gentle Purge, having neither taste nor smell, purging the body without offence; It purgeth all manner of humours, and therefore good in all Diseases requiring purging Medicines. Its Dose inward is to twenty grains, either in Powder or made up with some distilled Oils, or mixed with a like weight of Cream of Tartar in Powder, and half its weight of Antimony Diaphoretic, it is called Pulver Comekinne, and purges very safely all noxious humours; the dose is for twenty grains to fifty grains.    

A Cordial Stomachical Purgative Tincture.  
ALoes ℥ 3, Myrrh, Saffron, of each one ounce; Mastic, read Rose-leaves ℥ 3. Extract the Tinctures with rectified Spirit of Wine, which decant from fecies, and in B. M. separate the Spirit of Wine to thick Juice, which whilst hot put up in a pot for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
This is very effectual in cleansing the Stomach, helpeth Concoction, and suffereth no putrefaction of Meat in the Stomach, preserveth the humours of the body from corruption, and gently purgeth the body. They may be used in Pills before meat, or at any time; the Dose is from twenty to forty Grains, and the Tincture before separation of the Spirits, may be used for the like occasions, from one to three spoonfuls.    

Extract of Radij.  
TAke Coloquintida ʒ 6. Agrick, Scamony, the Roots of black hellebore, and Turbith, ana ℥ ss. Aloes ℥ 1. Diarrhodon Abatis ℥ ss. let them (the Diarrhodon Abatis excepted) be grossly bruised and infused eight days, in the very best Spirit of Wine, in a vessel close stopped in the Sun, or B. M. let there be so much Spirit as may swim above it six fingers, than infuse your Diarrhadon Abatis in the same manner four days in Spirit of Wine, mix these, solution being first strained and pressed hard, cast away the Fecies, put them in a Long-body of Glass with an Alembick-head, and draw of the Spirit to the thickness of Honey, which keep for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
This Extract is of a very quick, searching Pill, the terrene part being separated and only the Tincture used, whereby it leaves no gnawing quality in the bowels. It cleanseth both Head and Body of Choler, Phlegm, and Melancholy. It may be taken from one scruple to a dram, although the general Dose of these Pills be half a dram, taken in the morning, and keeping in a warm chamber all day.    

Laudanum Paracelsi.  
TAke the best Opium two ℥ with good Spirit of Wine, extract its tincture, Gum-henbane one ℥, extract his tincture; Diamber ℥ two, draw away all his tincture, Momia ℥ ss, and draw away its tincture, of the best Saffron ʒ 3. extract his tincture, mix all these tinctures except the tincture of Diambra, and let them stand in a warm place fourteen days close luted, than open it and add a little tincture of Diambra, stop it up again and let it stand six weeks, or thereabouts, till the smell of the Liquor be almost vanished, than open the Glass and add tincture of Coral, clear yellow Amber, of each ʒ 1. of Magisteri Perlarum 1 ℈ Ossi de Cord Cerui 10 gr. Aurum Potabili, or its Tincture 30 gr. These with the Spirit of Diamber put to the other Tinctures, and stir it several days one after another, at last in B. M. draw of the Spirit of Wine, and when 'tis almost dry, add of Ol. Succini, Ol. Maci, and Ol. Cinnamoni, of each 1 ℈. put it out whilst hot, take one half part and reserve for women; to the other part add 10 gr. of the Extract of Mu●k, and set in a warm place that it may dry.  

It's Virtues.  
It may be given in liquor, or made up into Pills, the Dose is to six grains. It helpeth the Colic, Frenzy, Hot Fevers, the weakness of the Stomach, the Yex, Vomiting, causeth quiet sleep, stops Fluxes. If it be mixed and taken with the former Oil of Cumphior, it cureth the Falling-sickness and Convulsions.    

Preparation of Opium, or Laudanum.  
TAke of Opium 6 ℥ of powdered Cream of Tartar, one ounce of Spirit of Salt, two ℥, put them in a Bolt-head, close the mouth of the Glass, set it in B. M. for twenty four hours; open the Glass and put in one pint of the best Spirit of Wine, close it up and set it in B. M. to extract, and after extraction decan the Spirit, and put on more Spirits, and extract further the Tincture: These tinged Spirits put together in a Glass Gourd, and add of Oil of Saffron twenty gr. of Oil of Clove one ʒ. of Oil of Rosemary one ʒ. draw of the Spirit of Wine to a thickness, which take out and put in a clean vessel.  

It's Virtues.  
The Dose is for one, ten, five, or six gr. to men; it may be used in all hot Distempers, causeth quiet sleep, mitigates pains outward or inward; causeth sweat, and helpeth the Epilepsy in children.    

Corrector of Vegetables, or the Preparation of Salt of Tartar.  
TAke of powdered Tartar and Peter, of each one pound, mix them well put it into a earthen pipkin, and give fire from above and the Peter will take fire and calcine all the Tartar, pour upon the Salt warm Water, and extract the Salt with Water, after all the Salt is extracted, pour into a Long-body and draw of all the Water to a dryness, which Salt put into a Crucible, and lute it strongly into a blue mass; which ended, whilst it is yet warm, beaten it in a warm Mortar to powder, and put it into a new earthen Pan, and pour upon it so much Oil of Turpentine as will just cover the Salt, stir it well with a stick and cover it with a thin cloth that no dust come in, and set it so that it may attract air, and yet no Water by any means may come to it; stir it three or four times a day, and when the Oil is wholly inbibed, add so much more Oil, stirring it continually, and keep inbibing the said Salt until it has drank up three times its weight of Oil; which finished, your Salt is prepared for your use.  
If this matter dissolve in fair water and show no Oyleness, it is than well prepared, let it be well dried, and to it add three parts of good Potters-earth, put it into a c●●ted Retort, apply a Receiver, and by force of fire drive over all the Salt which will rise white and clear.  

It's Virtues.  
This is the true Corrector of Vegetables whereby poisonous matters are reduced into good and wholesome Medicines; this being put upon any Matter, either Vegetable, Mineral, or Metal, it so altereth it and opens the body, that the pure may be separated from the impure. It radically dissolveth Pearls, Coral, or any other Stones, it maketh of Gold Potable Gold, and of Silver Potable Silver, and being joined with the Tincture of Gold, and both brought over the helm, 'tis a most general Medicine far exceeding any other that can be made by the art of man, but will without heat or any trouble be prepared in six months, but in a sho●●er time by Art. If it be circulated with graduated Spirit of Wine they will unite.    

Mathews, Or rather Starkies Pill.  
TAke two pound of prepared Salt of Tartar, and one lb of powder of black Hellebore, and one pound of Opium, dissolved in Spirit of Wine, the Wine again extracted to a thick substance, which mix with the Salt of Tartar and Hellebore until they be all well incorporated, which than let it be continually fed with Oil of Turpentine that it may be kept moist, and the Salt made more volatile and fit for Medicine.  

It's Virtues.  
It is a most excellent Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Anodine Medicine; It ●cureth all pains of the Head, a Pill taken at night and a little applied to the Temples, the Megrim, Vertigo, Frenzy, Lethargy, helpeth the Memory, cause quiet rest, 'tis good in the Falling-sickness, Convulsions, Cramps, Stiches, Aches. It cureth the pains of the Teeth, a little applied to the Tooth, it helpeth the Cough, Asthma, Pleurisy, Inflammation of the Lungs, palpitrations of the Heart, weakness of the Stomach, Yeking, Vomiting, pain in the Stomach, windiness of the Stomach, the Flux, Diarrhea, Dycenteria, the Colic, Iliac Passion, Worms, obstructions of the Liver, and Spleen, the Dropsy, Anasara, Ascites, and Tympanites, Inflammation of the Reinss, Ulcers there, Gonnorhea, obstruction of the Urine, difficulty of Pissing, the Disury and Strangury; It bringeth down women's Courses, and helpeth the overflowing of them, the inflammation of the Womb; It hindereth abortion, cureth windiness or exuleration of the Womb, taketh away Barrenness, cureth the Gout, it helpeth all manner of Fevers, as the Synochus, continual or burning Favour, the Tertian, Quartain, or Quotidain; It bringeth forth the Smallpox, Measles, 'tis a very general remedy, curing most Diseases and not hurtful to any; the dose is twenty Grains.    

Dulcified Salt of Tartar.  
TAke Salt of Tartar that hath been dissolved, filtered and congealed into a Body until it be easily fusible and melt like Wax: which sign being known beaten it to powder, and pour upon it so much Spirit of Wine as will cover it, which stir well for four days, six times every day and night, and at the fourth day place it in Sand, and draw of the insipid moisture, which being done put on more and proceed as before to five times.  

It's Virtues.  
It is good for Ulcerated Lungs, and of the Bladder, and freeth the Stomach from sour belching, one ℥ made up in a Lozenge and taken at a time.    

Spirit of Tartar.  
IT is impossible to obtain this Spirit by the common way par Retort, but if Retorts be made of good Earth (not poreous) with a pipe at the top, and so placed over a naked fire, with a Receiver luted very fast that a man may cast in the Material by a spoonful at a time, and when the first Spirit is settled cast in more, and by this means you will obtain a Phlegm Spirit, vinegar, and read Oil, in the Retort will remain the Salt, which calcine in a Crucible and put half of the Salt in a Glass Retort, and pour upon the same all the matters that were distilled; place it in Sand, and apply a large Receiver luted, and make first a small fire and the Spirit will come of, and after the Phlegm, mix the vinegar with the read Oil. You may save each by itself by changing your Receivers, and rectify your Spirit once or twice more from calcined Tartar; this may be distilled in a common Retort putting in all at a time. If there be fitted a pipe of Tin, so that it may pass through a Tub of cold water, and one end of the Pipe fastened to the Retort, the other end fastened to the Receiver, which likewise may be placed in cold water.  

The Virtues of the Spirit and Oil.  
This is a most powerful Medicine against all obstruction of the whole Body, cureth the Scurvy, Colic, Cramps, Contractures, brings forth the Smallpox, Measles, purges the Blood, helpeth malign Favours, the Epilepsy, Convulsions, and many other Diseases proceeding from corruption of Blood. Likewise 'tis of excellent use for the extracting the Tincture of Metals and Minerals.  
The Oil rectified from calcined Tartar will become clear, and is good to disperse kernels or knobs risen up in the skin, allayeth all swelling pains, the Gout, Sciatica, Stiches, Aches, Cramps, or Wind-Gout.  
The Caput Mort being calcined again to a white or blue Mass, may be extracted with fair water filtered and congealed into a white Salt, called the Salt of Tartar. And if it be put upon a Marble and a dish set under, it will resolve itself into an Oil, which is used by women to take away Sunburnt, Morphew, and Freckles in the Face; if Oil of Vitriol be poured upon this Salt sufficiently, 'tis called Tartarium Vitriolatum.    

Spirit and Oil of Cranium Humanum.  
TAke of it as much as you please, break it into small pieces, which put into a Retort of Earth, or Glass coated, set it in an open fire and lute fast a large Receivor, and make your fire by degrees, and so increasing your fire to the highest degree, and there will come over a yellow Spirit, with a read Oil and volatile Salt, which rectify from calcind Tartar, and they will become fair and clear, only when all the spirits are come, change the Receiver for the read Oil.  

It's Virtues.  
The Spirit opens obstructions of the whole Body, and strengthens the feeble Parts, cureth Falling-sickness, the Dropsy, and cureth the Gout; the Dose from three Grains to twenty Grains.    

Oil and Spirit of Hartshorn.  
THis is put in and distilled, as that of Cranium Humanis, viz. being cut or broke in small pieces, and there will come over a Spirit and read Oil, with the volatile Salt, which rectify from calcined Tartar.  

It's Virtues.  
The Spirit rectified is very penetrating, and therefore opens all obstructions of the whole body, purging by sweat and urine all noxious humours, very useful in the Plague, Pox, Gout, Leprosy, Scurvy, Smallpox, Measles, Surfers, Pleurisy, malign Fevers, the Melancholy, Hypocondraick, or any other Disease requiring sweat. The read Oil rectified, cureth the Quartane, and all pains in the body coming of cold, Wounds, Bruises, or Hurts.  
The Dose of the Spirit is ʒ ss at most, and the Oil to thirty drops.    

Spirit of Man's Hair.  
FIll a Glass Retort with Hair cut small, set it in Sand, and apply a Receiver luted, and make your fire to it, and there widow l come over a Spirit and Oil, rectify them from calcined Tartar, and they will be clear, the Spirit smelling like urine.  

It's Virtues.  
This Spirit applied to any part of the body outwardly, cureth the Scab and Itch▪ It is unpleasant to take, and therefore rarely used inwardly. It dissolveth common Sulphur, reducing it into a milk, which with further ripening will turn into a bloodlike colour.    

Spirit of Urine.  
TAke Urine of men drinking Wine, put it into an Earthen Vessel, boil away one third part, put the remainder in a very high Long-body, and place on a Still-head, lute fast the Joints, and apply a Receiver, make a strong fire that the matter boil, and there will come over the Spirit, together with the volatile Salt; distil this Spirit four or five times over, and after rectify it from calcined Tartar three or four times, every time calcining the Tartar, and keep it in a good strong Glass close stopped.  

It's Virtues.  
The strong Spirit or Salt used causeth strong Sweats, and purges by urine likewise. It purifieth the blood, opening the obstruction of the Spleen, cureth Fevers, Tertian and Quartane; It disperses all tough, gross, venomous humours; it bringeth down women's Courses, helpeth the suffocation of the Matrix; the Salt perfectly cureth the Jaundice. The Dose is to fifteen grains.  
Externally applied it cooleth all inflammations, curing the Erysipilas and Gangrene, easeth the pain of the Gout, laid to the Pulse is good in ardent Fevers, cureth the . If it be applied Clyster-wise it killeth Worms.    

Spirit of Wine.  
TAke as much French Brandy as you please, put it into an Alembick-still, and hung in the Still a great Sponge, and lute fast your Receiver, distil it with a small heat until all the burning spirits be come, than take of the Receiver, and pour the spirit in the Long-body upon salt of Tartar well calcined, and distil it in sand (the Joints well luted) until you see the Veins in the head of the Still spread abroad and vanish, then cease. Calcine the Tartar again, and return the spirit upon it again, and this do for five times, and your spirit will be pure and of great strength.  

It's Virtue.  
This Spirit of itself is very cordial, penetrating every part of the body being drank, and 'tis good in all cold defluxions, fortifies the Optic Nerves; 'tis of great use ●or extracting of Tinctures of Herbs, Roots, Gums, etc.    

Animal Mercury.  
TAke one part of the best spirit of Urine, or rather its salt, and four parts of pure tartarized spirit of Wine, put the salt in a ●reat thick Glass Bottle, and pour upon it ●he spirit of Wine tartarized, and presently ●op the Bottle, 'twill be full of fumes, shake ●t well, and the spirit will both be united ●nd congealed into a salt and dry, if no phlegm were in the spirits, otherwise there ●ill be some water, which separate from ●he salt, which will be white and strong like ●alarmoniack spirit; Divide this salt into ●our parts, of which take one, and four parts ●f spirit of wine rectified to the height, let 〈◊〉 be hermetical, sealed up in a strong Bolt-head, and digest it in B. for fourteen days, ●r till unition, than open the Glass and put ●n another part and digest it again, and this ●o till the spirit hath inbibed all the salt, which after rectify par Retort. This serveth to extract the Tincture from Mineral ●nd Metals.   

Spirit of Vinegar.  
TO make spirit of Vinegar, you must fill your Glass with what quantity you please in sand, evaporate by a gentle heat about two third parts, the remainder urge by a stronger fire, and keep for your use.  
It's use is to cool Inflammations, helpeth Scaldings, Burn, if mixed with Saccorum Saturni.   

Spirit of Vinegar.  
TAke distilled Vinegar eight parts, and one part of Salarmoniack sublimed, digest them fourteen days, and put it into a Retort and lute to a Receiver, urge it in sand until all be come over.   

Spirit of Vinegar.  
TAke twelve pound of good Vinegar, tw● pound of Honey, two ℥ white Pepper▪ Mustardseed bruised six ℥, set it in the su● or a hot place fourteen days, and than evaporate the half part gently, the remainder ●ring over by a strong fire.   

Spirit of Vinegar.  
TAke Honey, Salt decrepitated, of each one pound, of the best Spirit of Vinegar two pounds, let them stand one month ●n the sun, and distil them in sand, and cohobate the spirit four times upon fecies.  

It's Virtues.  
It serveth to dissolve Corals, Pearls, Fish-●ells, Minerals, Metals, and to make their Magisteries and Salts.    

A Water for the Falling-sickness.  
TAke of Swallows cut in pieces without separating any thing from them, six ●●nces; of Castorium cut small one ounce, ●ix them well, and infuse them all night in ●anary-wine, than put them in a Retort, ●nd distil them in sand until all be dry; cohobate the liquor three times.  

It's Virtues.  
This Water being drank to the quantity 〈◊〉 two spoonfuls every morning, cures them ●●●t have the Falling-sickness.    

Tincture of Coral.  
TAke Salt of Tartar that has been strongly fused in a Crucible, dissolve it in fair water, to one part of Coral let be three or four parts of Tartar, put the Coral Powder into the Tartar and Water in a long Glass, set it in sand, make a strong fire, and the Tartar will dissolve the Coral. The Coral being dissolved, filter the solution, and deduct all the moisture in B. M. and there will remain a pleasant honey, thick Liquor; Let it be dried perfectly in a sand, and extract the Tincture with well rectified spirit of Wine, which being well coloured decant the same, and separate the half part of the spirit of Wine, and keep the Tincture for your use.  

It's Use.  
It's use is to fortify the Vitals, to help Melancholy, and to stop Fluxes. It helpeth the Convulsions and Falling-sickness; but the Spirit is far more effectual.    

Magistery of Coral.  
DIssolve Coral in good distilled Vinegar, and when all is dissolved, put in●o the same a good quantity of fair water, ●nd the Precipitate or Magistery will fall to ●he bottom, which edulcorate with fresh additions of water until it be sweet, and keep ●t for your use. It hath the same virtue as ●he Tincture.   

Spirit of Coral.  
TAke four ounces of Coral, one pound of Cream of Tartar powdered, and ●s much water as will dissolve the Tartar, put them into an Earthen Pipkin, boil them until the water be coloured with the Coral, and it be dissolved, continually supplying the evaporated water, and when solution is made, evarate the water to a thick juice, which distil par retort in a naked fire, until all the spirit be come of.   

Spirit and Tincture of Pearls.  
TAke one part of Pearls powdered, four parts of Cream of Tartar, and as much water as will dissolve the Tartar, put them into an Earthen Pipkin, and set them upon the fire and boil the same, still supplying the evaporated water until the Pearls be dissolved, than evaporate the water to a matter as thick as Honey, which par Retort in a naked fire distil into a Spirit; or with spirit of Wine before distillation you may extract the Liquor or Tincture; the Magistery is drawn as Coral.  

It's Virtues.  
This Spirit is more powerful than the Liquor or Tincture, it is a real Cordial, strengthening the Vitals, and powerfully purifying the blood by sweat and urine; It cureth the diseases of the Spleen, helpeth Consumptive persons, driveth out Smallpox, Measles, cureth Surfeits, helpeth to restore decaying nature; The Dose is to twelve Grains.    

The Essence of Coral and Pearl.  
DIssolve Coral or Pearl in good spirit of Salt, and upon the dissolved matter pour well rectified spirit of Wine, let the Glass be closed up most perfectly, and set it in B. M. and in few days will be extracted the Essence, which decant and separate the Wine from the Essence, keep close stopped for your use. These Essences have the same virtue as their Spirits.   

magistery of Eggshells.  
DIssolve Eggshells in good distilled Vinegar, and after solution precipitate the Calx with fair water, let it settle, the Calx will precipitate in a white powder, which is magistery; which sweetened several times and dried in the shade, put up for your use.  

It's Use.  
It is approved for cleansing the passages of the urine, to dry up old and watery sores, but most excellent for a Fucus to beautify women, being mixed with other Unguents, and applied to the face and hands, it produceth a rare white skin.    

Preparation of  Alum.  
TAke Alum, put it into an earthen Vessel, set it over the fire till all the moisture be gone, than make it read hot, and after a while put it into another pot, and pour so much Vinegar as will cover the same, set it on the fire and evaporate the Vinegar, and let it stand till 'tis read hot, and as white as snow, than keep it for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
This is very excellent to dry up old Sores, and take away dead and proud flesh.    

Calcination of Punex Stone.  
TAke Punex-stone, heat it read hot, and quench it four or five times in Wine vinegar, the last time only heat it without wetting it again, which reduce into a very fine Powder.  

It's Virtues.  
It is used for the Calcination of Metals.    

A certain Remedy for the Scrofula.  
TAke Sea-spunge calcined to a coal 3 ℥, bones of the Fish _____ burnt to ashes, Long Pepper, Ginger, Pelitory of Spain, Gauls, Salgem, calcined Eggshells, of each one ℥, mix them with distilled Water of Sponge, and let it be dried by degrees; of this Powder may be taken half a dram, with half an ounce of Sugar, let it lie in the mouth and melt there, and after swallow it down as it melteth. It may be made up in Lozenges or Troches, and so melted in the mouth.  

Use.  
This Medicine perfectly cureth the Disease commonly called, The Kings Evil.    

Oil, or Ointment for the same.  
TAke Oil of Bays eight ℥, Olibanum, Mastic, , Rozin, of each three ℥, put them in a Retort in sand, and distil them, and rectify them from Pot-ashes.   

Elixir of Salt of Tartar.  
TAke three parts of Salt of Tartar, fuse it in a Crucible, and than powder it yet warm, put it in an earthen glazed Pan, than take Oil of Cinnamon, Oil of Cloves, and Oil of Spike, of each one ounce, pour some of these Oils upon the Salt and stir it well, inbibing it until it hath drank up all the Salt. This cureth Heart-beating, Apoplexy, Vertigo.   

Compound Spirit of Tartar.  
TAke salt of Urine clarified, sublimed Salarmoniack, salt of Tartar, of each one part, powder and mix them well, an● pour upon them good distilled Vinegar lute them close, set them in B. M. for forty days, than draw of all the moisture tha● will come of in B. M. and mix the remaining matter with three parts of good whit● dry sand, urge them by Retort in a nake● fire, and you may obtain a most powerful Spirit for the making the Mercury of Metals.   

A most general Chemical Salve, curing all Wounds, Ulcers, Fistulaes', Cancers.  
TAke of the best Oil of Wax purified, calcined, rubified Vitriol, of each alike proportion, incorporate them well, after take of pure Venice Turpentine washed with Rose-water, as much as either of the former, put them in a Glazed Pan, and let them stand over a small fire, until it has attained ●he substance of Salve, or thick unguent, put it than into a Glass and keep it for your use.   

A general Water for the Completing the Cure of Cancers, Fistulaes', Ulcers, etc.  
TAke 1 lb. of Roch Alum, 1 lb. of Roch Borax, 1 lb. of Verdigreece, and 1 lb. of rubified Vitriol, and 1 lb. of good Peter, all pulverised, mix them and distil them like common Aquafortis; Rectify this water four or five times, and to it put 1 lb. of Spirit of Verdigreece, and 1 lb. of Spirit of Sulphur; this being done, in a Long-body put in 1 lb. of yellow Bees Wax, and pour all these Spirits upon the same, put on a Still-head, let it stand four days, and draw of the spirits in sand, the Wax will be black; take the Wax out and put in more Wax, and pour the spirits upon it again, and distil the same, and this do so often until the Wax be not more coloured by the Wax, but remain of its own colour, than the Water is prepared.  

It's Use.  
Mingle this Water with its weight of Spirit of Wine, and keep it in a Glass close stopped for your use, than dip a feather in the same, and touch a Serpigo, Nolimetangere, Cancer, Wolf, or any feted Wound o● Ulcer whatsoever, with one drop or two o● this Water, it heals it from the bottom dries up superfluous moisture, consumeth the venomous Humours, raiseth up flesh from the bottom, by the super-position of the aforesaid Plaster.    

A Rare Cordial.  
THe Extract of the Roots of Contra-yerva, black Tips of Crabs claws powdered, of each two ounces; of rugged Pear, re● and white Coral, Crabs Eyes, of each on● ounce, these must be finely ground and dissolved in Juice of Lemons, and the Juice again abstracted; let it be made up in little round balls,  
White Amber and Crystals ground into fine Powder with Rose-water, made into little balls, anna 1 ℥, Hartshorn calcined white 1 ℥, ground with Syrup of Citrons and Gillyflowers, made sharp with spirit of Sulphur, and made in Cakes.  
Bezor occident in powder, Terra Lunni● anna ℥ ss. Antimony Diaphoretic ℥ ij. Cochonillea powdered ℥ ss. Ambergris 1 ʒ ss make half a dram, and let them be made up with this following Jelly.  
Take Harts-horne shave, the skin of twenty four Snakes and boil them in a pot, covered with Water of Cardus, till it come to a perfect Jelly, unto which add Oil of Cloves, Cinnamon, Saffron, and Rosemary, of each 2 ʒ.  

It's Virtues.  
It is a most excellent Cordial, curing swooning, fainting Melancholy, putrefaction of Blood, small Pox, Measles, the spotted Fever, Plague, and all Infections, where there is occasion to drive out the humours by sweat, or to preserve the heart; the Dose is from ten to thirty grains in Cardus, or any other Cordial water.    

A very excellent Plaster, or Cerecloth.  
TAke Oil of Bricks 2 lb. Led calcined read, and Led calcined white, of each 1 lb. beaten them, and fist them, and incorporate them with the Oils, than put in Spanish Soap 12 ounces, incorporate these well all in an Earthen pan, put them upon the fire, making it very slow for an hour and a half, continually stirring it with a stick, till the matter turn from read to grey, and so continued stirring till the matter turn of the colour of Oil, and somewhat dark, try it upon a Trencher when this sign appears; for if a drop be let fall upon a Trencher and it cleave not, 'tis enough for Cerecloth, dip them in the Salve before 'tis taken of the fire, and smooth them on a board.  

It's Virtues.  
It mightily strengthens weak backs, and helpeth the Gonorrhoea, laid to the belly, easeth the Colic; to the stomach causeth a good appetite. It serveth in all Sores, Cuts, Wounds, Ulcers, etc.    

A most rare Chemical Balsam.  
TAke Oil of Bricks 4 pounds, pure Bees Wax, Rozin, Turpentine, of each two pounds, of black Pitch 8 ounces, in an Earthen glazed pan, melt first the Pitch and put in the rest of the materials, keep them continually stirring until all be very well dissolved, than take it of from the fire, and add by a little at a time Oil of Spike 4 ounces, and after that Oil of Turpentine, Oil of Wax, of each 4 ounces; Galbanum dissolved in White-wine 4 ounces, Storax liquid 4 ounces, stir them all well together, and pour them out whilst hot, and keep them for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
It cureth all diseases coming of cold or wind, as headaches, Stitches, Indigestion, the place afflicted first well chafed with a warm cloth, & after with this Balsam warm chafed in with your fingers. It helpeth all Bruises, Aches, Pains, the Gout, Palsy, Sciatica, Cramps, Colic, the Gravel, the Rickets, defects of the Spleen, Deafness, and most effectually cureth all Wounds, Cuts, Hurts, etc.    

Tartarus Vitriolatus.  
TAke pure salt of Tartar, put it in a glazed Dish, pour upon the same drop by drop Oil of Vitriol, so long until it ceaseth to make a noise, which you may dry and keep for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
It availeth against the gnawing pains of the Stomach, and to ease all pains of the Colic.    

Crystals of Tartar.  
IF you take equal parts of crude Tartar and salt of Tartar, and dissolve it in fai● water, and than evaporate the water, still skimming it until no more skim do arise and than let it cool, there will shoot white Crystals, which may be used in stead o● Tartarus Vitriolatrus for purging; they 'cause gentle Stools, and expel urine and th● Stone: the Dose from 1 scruple to a dram▪   

Spirit of Manna.  
TAke Manna what quantity you please put it in a glass Cucurbit, with its hea● and Receiver close luted, set it in ashes o● sand, make a small fire and there will com● over a spirit almost tasteless, yet of grea● virtue, being a great Sudorific.  

It's Virtues.  
It helpeth putrid Fevers of all sorts, o● any other distemper requiring sweat: th● Dose is from ʒ iiij. to ℥. This Spirit poured upon the flowers of Sulphur, extracteth a read Tincture good for the Lungs.    

Syrup of Vinegar.  
TAke of good White-wine Vinegar, and par B. M. evaporate the half part, of the remainder take lb 1. put it into a Glass-body, set it in B. M. & add of fine white Sugar lb 2. than keep stirring it with a Spatula, until all the Sugar be dissolved.  

It's Virtues.  
This Syrup is good to dissolve, attenuate, open, and mundify gross, clammy, or phlegmatic Humours in the Breast or Lungs; It refrigerates and mitigates the Heat, resisteth Corruption and Putrefaction, cleanseth the Urinary passages, appeases Inflammations.    

Syrup of Lemond-Rinde.  
TAke lb ss of the outward Rinds of new Lemons separated from the inward whiteness, put it in a Glass Cucurbit, and put to it lb 1 ss of good Spanish wine, set it in B. M. with its recipient close luted, with a small heat draw of ℥ 12 of the spiritous water, being very subtle and odoriferous, which may be without any additions for women by reason of the Mother; but for men or women not subject to Hesterick passions, you may put into the nose of the Limbeck tied up, ℥ ss of the grains of Alkernes, gr. 8 of Ambergris, and gr. 4 of Musk; This done to this distilled spiritous water, put ℥ 3 more of the thin Rinds, and digest it close stopped in the same. Run without expression this maceration through a Linnen-cloth, and preserve it in a Viol close stopped; the remaining Rinds after distillation boil in lb ij. of clear water, to the consumption of half, which than strain and clarify, and with one pound of white sugar boil up to a Syrup.  

It's Use.  
It may be used in sickness or in health, giving a grateful taste to any Liquor, making it more acceptable; it opens obstruction, it cuts phlegm, and causeth a good digestion, is good in the Colic.    

Vinegar of the Philosopher.  
TAke Verdigreece, pour on the same very strong distilled vinegar, dissolve therein a good quantity of Verdigreece, filter the solution till it be clear, than evaporate the humidity in a fire of the first degree, until a green Gum remain, which put into a Retort, and distil out of the same all the humidity, which rectify seven times in a clean Retort, till no Fecies settle, and a pure chrystaline Vinegar remaineth.     

The Second BOOK. Of Salts and Minerals.  

Of Sea Salt.  
SEa Salt is the true Radical Balm, or Balsam of Nature, by which every thing in the course of Nature is preserved, and all other Salts whatsoever have ●heir beginnings, and by which they are preserved, are nourished, and have power ●f giving life to their respective matters. Therefore may it be termed Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral; It is Animal and Vegetable as it hath a lively growing faculty in 〈◊〉, as being the first moving thing in Nature, causing increase, the beginning and continuance of Generation, without which nothing can be durable. It's faculty o● Multiplying and Increasing you may see by the vast multitude of Fish bred and nourished in the Sea; also the generation of precious Stones, Pearls, Shellfish and Cora● growing in great Branches, springing fro● most hard Rocks and Stones, and nourished by Sea-Salt, which is a sufficient argument to prove it Animal, and Vegetabl● Salt is also Mineral for passing through th● Pores of the Earth. It begets many and v● various other Salts, as Salt-Peeter, Vitriol Alum, Salt, Gum, and others of a Miner●● Nature, or participating much of Mineral▪ It is likewise of Mineral or Metalick Nature, by reason it may Metallike be me●ted by a strong fire as other Metals be; 〈◊〉 all which it plainly appeareth that Salt● Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral, and likewise Sea Salt was of much esteem by the Ancient Physicians, although they had litt●● skill in its preparation, they using no oth●● way than drying and calcining, and th●● say was than of force to help all obstruction of the Body, taking away all manner of putrefactions and corruptions of the Body, a● putteth away the original of all Disease doth it not preserve Flesh or Fish a lo● time from putrefaction, being applied o● 〈◊〉 it's gross Body, and by virtue of it prepared? nay not only Flesh, Fish, but all ●orts of Fruits, and other green things of Rarity be kept a very long time, and brought even from the East-India without losing Form, Taste, or Virtue.  
Metal, Mineral, Stones may be dissolved by it, corrected and amended, and made good Medicine, and many other necessary things may be performed with it.  

Preparation of Common-Salt.  
TAke Isle of Mayo, Cap. de Verd, or Indian Salt, dissolve it in fair water, & filter it through a sevenfold Strainer, after pour it into a earthen or copper Vessel, boil it up to a dryness, and when 'tis almost dry stir it about with a wooden stick until it be very dry, which Salt put into one or more Crucibles, and set it in a Furnace so that the fire may come round about it, and let it stand so until it be throughout read hot, and do not more crackle, for than it is decripitated or prepared.  

It's Virtues.  
It serveth for to mix with other Physic to prepare the Body, open Obstructions, and make a free passage for the operation of other Physic.    

Spirit of Salt.  
TAke one part of fine white Salt, and three parts of fine white sand, grinned and mix them well, put them in a coated Glass Retort, set it in an open fire and apply a large Receiver well luted, make a fire under it by degrees for sixteen hours, let the last eight hours' fire be very strong until your Receiver grow close and all the spirit be come of; which put into a Glass Retort, and in B. M. evaporate the Phlegm until it begin to taste sharp, which than remove into sand, and force all over, and you have a pure spirit well rectified.  

It's Virtues.  
This is a most excellent and safe Medicine to be used internally, or externally applied, it extinguisheth the preternatural thirst in hot Diseases, it consumeth phlegmatic humours in the stomach, helpeth the Appetite, consumeth the stone, purges the Reinss, and is good in the Gout. 'Tis very good to use in Julips for those possessed with malign Fevers, it whitens the Teeth being mingled with a little water, and the Teeth rubbed with the same; outwardly it taketh away proud or superfluous Flesh from Wounds, Ulcers, or any other parts, it taketh away Warts, it cleanseth old sores and prepares them for healing, it helpeth the read Face, taketh away Pimples, or any outward Inflammation.    

Spirit of Salt.  
DIssolve Common-salt in fair water▪ than quench burning Coals in this water that they may be impregnated with the salt, and put in so many till all the salt-water is inbibed; which after put into your coated Retort, and distil according to art, & you obtain a most grateful pleasant spirit.   

Spirit of Salt.  
MIx two parts of Vitriol or Alum with one part of salt, grind and mix them very well, put them into a coated Retort, and distil them by degrees of fire, as before.   

Spirit, or Oil of Salt.  
TAke of the best white Crystalline sea-salt, as much as you please, dissolve it in fair clear Rain-water if you can get it, and when 'tis all dissolved filter it through a new cotton strainer, and than pour it into a earthen Pan Glazed, and boil it away until it is almost dry, than keep it continually stirring until it is perfectly dry, beaten it very fine and put it into one or more Crucibles, place it in a Furnace, so that they may be throughout read hot, than take them out, let them cool, take out the salt and beaten it to fine Powder and put it into the Crucibles, and set it to glow until 'tis read hot, this do seven times; than dissolve it in fair water, strain it through a clean strainer, and boil away the water again to a dryness, which put it into a Crucible and let it glow read hot, than take it out and powder the salt, put it in the Pot and let it glow again to seven times, this dissolving filtering, evaporating the water and gloing the salt in the fire seven times, must be used until the said salt will melt upon a read hot plate of Iron like Wax, a little being tried; and you must be very careful that it melt not in your Operation, for than your labour is lost, but when you found by a little that 'twill melt easily, put to it three parts of pure white sand, put it in a Glass coated Retort, apply a large Receiver, by a violent strong fire drive over the Oil to spirits.    

Of Salt-Petre.  
SAlt-Petre is by art drawn forth of the earth, its Mother, and by often solution, filtration, coagulation is made pure, white and Crystalline, in which work you will found the three principals, or beginnings are extracted out of the earth, that is after the evaporation of the water to a skim, the pure Virgin Earth settling in the Liquor, but the true Salt-Petre, or fiery and airy Part or Mercury, and sulphur congealed to the sides of the Glass or Pan in pure white Crystals, in which separation we may see three principles or distinct Natures, which nevertheless do subsist or have a being from one and the same Essence, that which remaineth in the water is a true fixed Salt of the nature of Salt Marine, the other two that Christalized to the sides of the Vessel are Volatile Salt, yet of two distinct Natures joined in one, and of different qualities, the one being truly Mercurial, of a sour acid and ponderous Nature, and a dissolver of Metals, Mineral, and the most hardest Stones, the other a pure sweet Etherial Sulphur, or the soul and spirit are here united together, called Salt-Petre, which is a special key to the Alchemist, for it openeth the most hardest Bodies, as well Stones as Minerals, and Metals, and hath power to make Volatile, an● also to fix and incorporate spirits, and therefore is of a most wondered Nature, well known to few, for although this Petre well prepared, doth outwardly appea● white which is the Mercury, and as Common Mercury doth, yet in it, as I said befor● is a most pure redness, the like is observed in Common Mercury. This is the true Mercury of the world, as may appear, for if this Body of Petre be put into a Glass and set i● Sand, over a fixatory fire without any addition, you will than in some time see in i● contained all manner of Colours, which b● many will hardly be believed, but a few hours will discover the truth of this matter. This Sulphur being the true fire o● Nature, Spirit of the world, or Soul of the Universe; this Oil without any other addition may be made a true Balsamic Medicine, curing almost uncurable Diseases.  

Spirit of Salt-Petre.  
TAke three parts of pure white sand and one part of Petre, grind and mix them well, put them in a coated Retort, and set it over a naked fire, lute fast your Receiver, and let it be very large, make but a very small fire, and in few hours will come over the volatile Spirit, of a very deep redness, keep your fire but small as long as this redness appeareth, and when it gins to vanish, and your Receiver to clear, increase your fire and more read Spirit will arise differing from the former, and not of so deep a read; after these Spirits have appeared a while, increase your fire at last to the height, and when your Receiver cleareth and grow cold, although a violent fire, the Spirits are than all come over. If these Spirits be put into a glass Retort, and placed in B. M. with a Receiver luted, make first a small fire, and the volatile Spirit will come over, which is known by its colour, next will come over the phlegm, and next the true Spirit, which are all known by their colours; for when the first volatile Spirit cometh, 'tis of a deep read, when the phlegm cometh 'tis of no colour, and when the true acid and corrosive Spirits come, the Retort is read and fiery again; you must catch these Spirits apart.  

Their Virtues and Use.  
This volatile Spirit, which if freed from phlegm is always read, it cureth the Colic, assuageth the pains of the Gout, taketh away all tumors and Inflammations; It healeth Scabs, Tetters, and Ringworms, Cancers, Fistulaes', Wolves: It extinguisheth all Inflammations, Scaldings, the Gangrene; It dissipateth and consumeth congealed Blood in the body, being applied outwardly in some convenient waters, and used inwardly.  
As for the acid corrosive Spirit, its use is of little worth in Physic, but in dealing in Metals and Minerals 'tis of special use.    

Aquafortis.  
TAke three pounds of Vitriol, and two pounds of Petre, let them be well ground and mixed, and distilled as spirit of Niter, or Salt-petre, and you will have the same signs appear as did there, until all the spirits be came of.  

It's Virtue.  
It is not used at all in Physic, but for Metals, Minerals, and Stones, to reduce them into Vitriol, Calx, Flowers, and Crocates.    

To make a sulphurous Aquafortis.  
TAke of Salt-petre 1 lb. of Danzig Vitriol 24 ounces, of powdered Sulphur four ounces, grind them well together, put them into a coated Retort, and distilled as Spirit of Niter.   

Aqua Regis.  
IN one pound of Aquafortis, put four ounces of white decrepitated common Salt, rectify it by a strong fire two or three times, till all the Salt come over with the spirit, and nothing remain. In six ounces of this dissolve two ounces of Salarmoniack that is three times sublimed, and it will be very strong.   

Water and Spirit of Salarmoniack.  
TAke of Salarmoniack one part, and of Salt of Tartar two parts, mix them into a Paste, by addition of common water, and put them into a Retort, place it in an open fire, apply a large Receiver close luted, and distil it first with a small fire, and than increasing it according to Art, the spirit will come over into the Receiver, which you must pour into a Glass and seal it up with hard wax. In the neck of the Retort will rise a sublimate, which taken out and placed upon a stone, will resolve itself into a water, and is called Water of Sal-armoniack.  

The Virtue of the Spirit.  
The Spirit rectified is sharp and penetrating, for eight or twelve drops taken in a convenient Vehecle, doth penetrate the whole body, causing sudden sweat, opening the obstructions of the Spleen, cures Quartans, the Colic, Suffocation of the Matrix, driving out malign humours by sweat It cureth outwardly the Erysipilas, Gangrene, allayeth the pain of the Gout, allayeth swell, discusseth congealed blood helpeth benumbed members.    

Purified Niter, or Lapis Prunello:  
TAke a Crucible, place it in the fire, fi● it full of Petre, even up to the brin● the Salt-petre will melt, when it is melt cast in one spoonful of pure sulphur in powder, which immediately will take fire an be consumed, the flame ceasing cast in mor● and this continued until all the fire of th● Niter be perfectly precipitated to the bottom of the pot, and it become so clear 〈◊〉 melting that you may see the bottom of the Crucible through the Niter, which bein● done, pour it out into a Copper tinned ve●sel heated, and spread it all over the bottom, which immediately put into cold water that it may not stick too fast to the bottom of the Kettle, and your Petre will in its coagulation look pure white, and very clear.  

It's Virtues.  
This purifying of the Nitre causeth it to be lesle corrosive, more airy and penetrating, it cools much, and resists corruption, and is Diuretic, therefore very good in Inflammations, or Ulcerations of the Reinss; the Dose is from 1 scruple to a dram inwardly    

Spirit of Salt-Petre.  
TAke three or four pound of Niter, put it in a large Glass Retort, and place it in a Sand kettle, so that you may be able to make a great fire under; make a small fire first, and that continued for four hours, than make your fire somewhat bigger for four hours more, after that increase it for six or eight hours to the very height, as if you were distilling Aquafortis, and you will find the Spirit cleaving to the outside of the Glass, which sweep of with a feather, and keep for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
This pure sulphurous Niter and penetrating Spirit is most wondered; a few grains penetrateth the whole body, openeth all obstructions, consumeth those things amiss in the body, even as fire; It expelleth the Epilepsy, Convulsions, cureth the Fits of the Mother, the Hypocondraick Melancholy, the Tertian and Quartan, and all diseases proceeding from obstructions, or corruption of Blood, the Colic, outwardly the Gout Fistulaes', Ulcers, Cancers, etc.     

Of Vitriol.  
VItriol (as saith Paracelsus) is a very noble and excellent Mineral, and wa● always held in great esteem by the Father of this Art, by reason of its great endowments, and is called The Philosopher's Earth wherein is contained the true Salt, Sulphu● and Mercury of the Philosopher, which an to be separated by a peculiar manner, pr●scribed by Nature itself, and not by any violent Calcination, or Distillation; for b● this way the true Greenness being the sou● separateth itself from the body, and leave● it dead, it being converted into a read volatile Sulphur. Now Vitriol containeth in self many vicious imperfections, and therefore before you attempt to obtain this A●canum, you must separate those imperfections, of which the manner followeth.  

Purifying of Vitriol, of Sympathetical Powder.  
TAke very good Roman, Hungarian, or Cyprus Vitriol, powder it, put it into a glazed Vessel, and pour upon it so much water as will dissolve the same, stir it well about, and when 'tis settled, pour the coloured water through a Strainer of Cotton into a copper Kettle, and if all the Vitriol be not dissolved, put on more water, stirring it well, and after the filtering it well pour it to the rest; which being done, and all the Vitriol extracted, cast away the yellow seddiments, being nothing but common Sulphur and other impurities; set the Kettle upon the fire and boil away about one third or more, until the sign appeareth with a skin on the top, than take it of, pour it into an Earthen glazed Pan, set it in a cold place crystal will shoot, which take out, the remaining water boil up again till the sign appear, and pour it of into the earthen Vessel, set it to chrystalize as before, which Crystals take out and put to the other, and dry them by the sun, or before the fire gently, and after powder them, dissolving, filtering, and coagulating them as at first, till the five times, or until no settlements be at the bottom of the Solution, but all remain pure, and of a bluish colour; which work of purification being ended, let be put in an earthen Pan and covered, that no defilement come to it, and let it be set in a very small heat until it be converted into a white powder, which is called The Sympathetical Powder; which Powder, if good, you may cast it into a Basin of water, it will colour it blew, and if it do not 'tis good for nothing.   

Calcination of Vitriol.  
TAke Danzig Vitriol (which is the bes● to draw a spirit from) put it into Earthen Glasen Pan, and set it over the fire and 'twill in a small time melt, stir it with stick and let it be upon the fire until it ha●● lost his Greenness, and is turned somewhat yellowish, break the Pan (for otherwise will not come out) and take the Vitriol Powder and sift it for your further use, 〈◊〉 distil the Spirit and Oil, and for the sublemation of Mercury.  
But if you will calcine it read for the use Chirurgeons, it's than called Colcother of Vitriol, and is made thus; Take an Iron Kettle very clean, and put as much of the calcined Vitriol in Powder as you please, spread it thin upon the bottom of the Kettle, make a fire under and at last your Vitriol will begin to fume, keep your fire pretty big, and stirring it with an Iron Rod, titl at last it be as read as blood; than let the fire cease, let this be three or four times washed with fair water, and keep for your use after 'tis dried.  

It's Use.  
It's use is to make the Chemical Plaster before mentioned, or to put in other Plasters according to the will of the Chirurgeon, or if it be mixed with any unguent, and be laid on an ill Ulcer, it maketh a Scar which you need not endeavour to take of, but continually lay more on, and leave the Scar in the Sore; for the virtue of this Vitriol is so great, that it causeth the flesh to grow under Scars; and when the flesh is enough grown, it will fall of, and than you need nothing but to skin it.    

The preparing of Vitriol, and the making Ens Veneris.  
TAke the Colcother of Vitriol, or rather the Caput Mort of Aquasortis that is made of Vitriol & Salt-petre, being burnt to a sad redness, let the Salt be all drawn away with fair water, and after dried and powdered, pour upon this matter the Spirit of Salarmoniack or Urine, stir it well, and let it dry again before the fire, and do this moistening and drying seven times, at last powder it, and mix with it two parts of Sal-armoniack purified, grind and mix them very well, put them in a Glass Retort, and place it in sand, and by degrees of fire sublime for twelve or fourteen hours, stopping the mouth of the Retort with a little Cotton, and the Ens Veneris will be in the neck of the Retort of a yellow colour, put it to its weight of Colcother, mix them well, and sublime them again, and once more if you please by its self.  

It's Virtues.  
'Tis a famous Anodine, suppressing all noxious humours, causing rest; the Dose is three or four grains.    

Spirit and Oil of Vitriol.  
FIll a Retort almost full of Vitriol powdered and calcined white, as before, place it in a Winde-Furnace, and apply a large Receiver well and close luted, make a small fire for forty eight hours, and after increasing your fire to the highnst, till your Receiver groweth clear and cool, which which than take of and put it into a Glass Retort, place it in sand and apply a Receiver, distil of the Spirit and the heavy Oil will remain pure and clear.   

A Rare Spirit of Vitriol.  
TAke Vitriol calcined only to a whiteness powdered, put it into a Retort well coated, place it in your Wind-Furnace and apply a large capacious Receiver, whose body let lie in moist sand, and let it be fast luted to the Receiver, and let a very small fire be made under it for forty eight hours, than you may increase your fire greater for twenty four hours more, and to the highest degree you may, or possible you can for twenty four hours more, or until the furnes cease, and the Receiver grow cold; before the Receiver be cold take it of, and pour it into a Glass, stop it close. The Caput Mort, or Colcother, take out, powder it, and mix it with its weight of Sulphur, put it in a strong fire, and calcine it throughly. Powder it and put it in a Long-body, and pour upon the same as much of the distilled Spirit as may moisten it, than place it in sand and abstract the phlegm, and the Spirit will remain inbibed by the Colcother, than put on more, and do this six or seven times, till at last it will inbibe not more, which you may know by its standing coloured read on the top; dry this matter well, put it in a Retort, and let it be distilled by a violent fire until all be perfectly come over, and of a yellow colour, and a most pleasant smell; take away the Receiver whilst hot, & pour the spirits in a glass, which keep close stopped.  

It's Virtues.  
It most certainly cureth the Epilepsy, Convulsion, in all obstructions of the body, purifieth the blood from every disease; cureth Pox, Gonorrhoea, the Gout, Dropsy, Scurvy, Hypocondraick Melancholy, the Apoplexy, Palsy, Coma, Lethargy, the Colic, etc.    

Read Oil of Vitriol.  
TAke Colcother of Vitriol powdered out part, and two parts of Powder of Flints, mix and grind them well by themselves, and after grind them into a Paste with spirit of wine, put this matter into a Glass or Earthen Retort, in a reverberatory fire, with its Receiver distil it according to Art, and you obtain a heavy ponderous Oil, to be used with Metals.   

Spirit and read Oil of Vitriol.  
DIssolve Vitriol in common water, filter it from residence pour upon the green water some Spirit of Urine or Salarmoniac, and the green will settle and the water clear up; pour of the clear water, and coagulate it into a white mass, which powdered and put to two parts of fine white sand, in a Retort place it in sand, and distil from thence the Spirit, or else you may reserve the Salt, and 'tis a good purge; about 24 grains take. The Earth remaining, you may dry well and mix it with powdered Flints, and distil it into a blood read Oil.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil perfectly cureth the Falling-sickness.    

Ens Veneris.  
TAke purified Roman Vitriol, dissolve it in fair water and filter it, pour upon it so much Spirit of Urine or Salarmo●i●● as will precipitate the green or blue Sulphur, let it settle and pour of the waters, and wash it very well from salt, and bedew it again with Spirit of Salarmoniac, and gently dry it; this dewing and exicating by the sun, or before a fire, do seven times, and 'twill be a most fine subtle Powder. Take half of it, and add to it twice its weight of Salarmoniac purified, grind and mix them very well, put them in a small Retort in a Sand-kettle, but so that the fire may come round it, make fire by degrees, and at last a very strong fire, and the Sublimate will ris● green, and partly yellow, leaving a Regular behind whitish; grind this Sublimate and add it to the other half part, mix it well, pu● it in another Retort, sublime it again, casting away the Fecies, grind this Sublimate again by its self, and sublime it until it b● fixed and will rise not more.   

Arcanum of Vitriol.  
VItriol being purified, as in the description of the Sympathetical Powder, mus● be digested in several Glasses close shut, fo● so long until various colours appeareth, and at last the highest redness, which being brought to this pass, powder it, put it in a Glass Long-body, pour upon it distille● Rain-water a little warm, stir it well, let i● stand twenty four hours, and than decant ●t, and put on more warm distilled Rain-water, which work reiterate so long as any aci●lity or sharpness may be attracted from the Earth: the Waters put together, and after alteration put it in a Long-body, place it ●n Sand and draw of about two thirds of the Water, which done set the Glass in a cold place, Crystal will shoot, which with a wooden spoon take out, the remaining wa●er evaporate again, and let it shoot as be●ore, and this Evaporating and Christali●ing must be used so often until all the Salt ●s converted into Crystals, which you may out altogether and dry them by the fire or ●he sun, and if they be not pure and white you must dissolve, filter, and coagulate them again, as in the making of Salt-Petre out of the Earth, for the process is the very same. This pure Salt put inro a Glass Retort, set in Sand with a Receiver well luted, make fire by degrees, and you obtain your Acetum, which rectify from all defilements, and 'tis prepared; take now your Earth very well dried, pour upon it this Spirit that it overtop it three fingers breadth, set it in digestion and the Spirit will be tinged of a yellow colour, somewhat reddish, which spirit decant and put on more, and extract all the tincture, put all the tincture together abstract the Spirit so often in a gentle fire per● Retort in Sand, until all the tincture come over in a golden coloured Oil, sweet, fragrant and pleasant, which is the Arcanum of Vitriol, the Earth remaining white.  

It's Virtues.  
It cureth perfectly the Falling-sickness, and Convulsion in young or old, the Blood in the whole Body is hereby renewed, and the Gonorrhoea, Pox, Gout, Leprosy, and other such like Diseases perfectly cured, Surfeit, Pluresies, Fevers and Agues of all sorts, and is counted for a Panacea in all Diseases     

Of Antimony.  
ANtimony or Stibium is of kin to common Lead, and like an abortive thrown out from him before his perfection by reason of his too much Sulphur, neither could he arrive to the perfection of a Metals for it overmuch abounding with Sulphur doth overcome the Mercurial part, that i● cannot attract Salt sufficient for his coagulation into a fufile or Maluable Body, and therefore remaineth a Mineral, and that merely Volatile poisonous in its crude Nature, and hurtful to the body of man, which has made it be condemned and thrown aside by many men, yet it is a most certain truth that by experience is found, that one Poison may attract and expel another by its attractive quality; that is, the attractive Poison must first be prepared, that its medicinal faculty may be transmuted into such a Medicine sufficiently able to destroy the other Poison by its attractive Power. As for example, a Toad in its self is mere Poison, yet if first dried in the Sun, after put into a pot with a cover close luted, and to burn to ashes, if these ashes be laid upon a place stung or venomously bit, or the like, you shall see one venom attract the other, and the place freed from venom; the reason hereof, because the virtue of the Toad by his preparation is opened and rendered effectually powerful to attract its like Poison; as Oil, or Fat will slain, or defile Cloth, but being prepared into Soap, it atttacts its like, and than not more able to slain or defile, but has power to attract or take away such defilements; so Antimony, though full of venomous Arsnical qualities, after his Poison is taken away, may be transmuted into Medicine, which never more for the future retaineth Poison, but be so able and effecatious as to attract the Poison of Diseases to it self, and expel it out of the Body, with itself. Now by reason every one that is willing to operate in Antimony, know not how to distinguish the good from the bad, know that the best being broke is of a yellowish or golden Cast, with broad straight veins, shining like silver, and is of a Golden Nature, abounding with Mercury; the other looketh pale and dull, has no yellow Cast, neither are the veins broad or straight, and this abounds with more Sulphur.  

Vitrium, or Glass of Antimony.  
TAke Antimony finely powdered, lay it very thin in a Earthen or Iron Pan, set it over the fire, and when it gins to fume stir it with an Iron Rod until it cease to sum; but if it chance to grow too hot that it run into a lump, let it than cool, take it of and beaten it fine again, and lay it very thin as before; calcine it until it be white, this white Powder put in a Crucible, place it in a most violent fire, that the Antimony may flow like water, than put in an Iron Wire that it may stick to the same, which hold up against the light, and if it be transparent 'tis sufficient, than pour it out into a Copper Pan by little and little, and you obtain a yellow transparent Glass.  

It's Use.  
It is used powdered about eight or ten gr. steeped in Sack all night, the next morning strained and the Wine drank, in such Diseases requiring Vomiting, it likewise purges by stool also.    

Regulus of Antimony.  
TAke Antimony one part, and calcined Tartar two parts, powder or grind them well together, and fuse them strongly ●n a Crucible for one hour, pour it out into a heated Cone, the Regulus will settle, which when 'tis cold, separate the Fecies about the Regulus containing, the Sulphur of Antimony reserve for further use.  

It's Use.  
It purges both by Stool and Vomit, yet much more milder than the Vitrium.    

Diaphoretick Antimony.  
OF Regulus one part powdered, and three parts of pure Niter, grind and mix them well, put them in a Crucible, and let them fuse for half an hour, and than empty it in a Cone, 'tis a white Mass, wash away the Salt by often pouring on of warm water, and dry the Powder by the Sun or the Fire, the Water evaporated leaves a Salt called Sal Prunella, and far better than that made by Sulphur.  

It's Virtues.  
This Dose is from a Scruple to a Dram, given in any Disease requiring Sweat, its Doses is for Children, to 12 gr. to elder Folk from 30 gr. to a dram.    

Tincture of Sulphur of Antimony.  
TAke the Fecies of the Rugulus before, powder it, make a Lixivium, pour upon it Spirit of Urine or Salarmoniac, distil● it by a gentle heat in sand, and there will come over a fair Tincture. Whilst it is yet dry pour upon it the spirit of Urine, and it will extract the Tincture of the Sulphur, decant the same and put it into another glass, draw of the spirit of Urine and there will remain a blood read Liquor, which extract with spirit of Wine, and the Tincture will be yet fairer, and if it stand in the sun two months it will be very pleasant. The fecies of the Regulus before, if water be added and a Lixivium made, it cures all Sabs.  
If you pour Vinegar, or any other acid Spirit, there will precipitate a read Powder, which edulcorate and dry the same. It is called Auratum Diaphorecum, or the Golden Diaphoretic, but causeth strong Vomits, and therefore falsely so named; for from 10 to 20 gr. worketh both by Vomit and Stool.   

Regulus Martis.  
TAke Antimony two parts, filing of Steel one part, burnt Tartar four parts, beaten them finely and mix them well, and fuse them in a strong fire and set it to cool, the Regulus will settle, break the pot, take out the Regulus, and add to it twice its weight, melt it as before, and let the Regulus settle, and do this three times and it will be pure white and shining like the finest silver, and is called The Star of Antimony. If this Regulus be often stilled by fire with the Salt of Tartar, it will at last be consumed, which than resolved in the air it turns to an Oil, and by often calcination and resolution, it will at last come over the helm. This Regulus may be made with Petre and Tartar, but 'tis far more excellent if it were made of Petre alone: this after it is fixed, if it be made volatile, dissolveth all bodies, both Metal, Minerals, or Stones:   

Crocus Metallorum, or Liver of Antimony.  
MIngle one pound of Antimony finely beaten and sifted, to one pound of Salt-petre, than set a Crucible in the fire, and heat it read hot, put in one spoonful of the matter after another until the Crucible be full, cover it with a tile, and make it fuse, and pour it into a Mortar heated, which being cold is like a Liver, and beaten to Powder called Crocus Metallorum.  

It's Use.  
This both vomiteth and purgeth; the Dose is from 10 to 20 grains, or else may be used by Infusion, viz. about half a dram infused in one ounce of Wine all night; or put one ounce of this Liver to one pound of Wine, whereof you may drink to two ounces.    

Fixed Powder of Antimony.  
TAke very fine sifted Antimony, pour upon it a Lixivium of Petre, let it overtop the Antimony four or six fingers in breadth set it in sand, and make a strong fire for ten or twelve hours and than cease, decant the water, and than boil it away till it is perfectly dry, fuse it in a Crucible, and pour ●t out in a Cone, after bray it whilst hot, ●nd pour upon it Spirit of Urine, and extract all the Tincture, abstract the Spirit of Urine, and abstract it again with Spirit of Wine, abstract the Spirit of Wine, and a ●ed Powder remaineth.  

It's Virtues.  
It driveth forth coagulated Blood, and opens all Obstructions of the whole Body, breaketh Imposthumes, radically cureth the ●ues Veneria; the Dose is 30 gr. and may ●e taken two or three times a day.    

Balsam of Antimony.  
TAke one part of Antimony, half apart of fine common Salt, and six parts of ●ne Sand, grind and mix them well, and ●istil them by a most violent fire, and a read Oil will flow, from which abstract the moiture to a dryness, grind it and place it ●pon a Marble, and a pelucid Balsam will ●ow. Excellent in all Wounds, Ulcers, fistulas.   

Oil of Antimony.  
TAke Mercury sublimate finely searsed, and Antimony searsed, of each equal parts, put them in a coated Retort, and set them over a Reverbatory fire, make a small fire until the thick Oil, like Butter, be all come over, and if it chance to stick in the neck of the Retort, hold a little fire under and 'twill melt and run down into the Receiver. This Butrium let stand in the Air, and it will attract a moisture to make i● more thinner.  

It's Use.  
This Oil is used by Surgeons in such wounds as are desperate and almost incurable, by dipping a feather in it, and touching the part, so to separate the impurity, &c as in the Cancer, Wolf, Nolimetangere, &    

Cinaber of Antimony.  
AFter the Butrium is all come over make a strong fire by degrees, an● there will rise in the neck of the Retort th● Cinaber of Antimony.  

It's Virtue.  
'Tis a good Diaphoretic in the Pox, Gonorrhoea, and the Dose is to 20 grains.    

Mercurius Vitae.  
TAke of your Butrium as much as yo● please, upon which in a Glass pour ●reat quantity of water, and the white flowers will settle, decant of that water, and ●ash it ten times more, or until it be sweet, ●hen dry it by the sun, or the fire, and put ●t up for your use.  

It's Use.  
This is not fit to be given to Children, ●eak people, or such as are not used to vomit, but in strong bodies, 'tis a good Medicine for the Pox, Gout, Scurvy, Dropsy, ●eavers, etc. It is good for those that are scorbutical, or possessed with the Hypoconraick Melancholy; the Dose is from five ●o eight Grains.    

Bezoardicum Minerali.  
TAke what quantity of Butrium you please, put it into a Gallon Receiver ●f Glass, pour upon the same drop by drop, ●ntil the ebullition end; put on so much ●hore as will make it the weight of the Bu●rium, as soon as it is done, pour a great quantity of cold well-salted water, and the precipitate will settle white, let it settle for ●o or 12 hours, after wash it with fair water.  

It's Use.  
It is a good Sudorific against all Diseases requiring sweat, as the Plague, Pox, Fevers, scorbute, Leprosy, used from 8 to 30 gr, in a ●roper Vehicle.    

Flowers of Antimony.  
TAke one part of Antimony finely powdered and seared, two parts of whit● Salt, & four parts of Danzig Vitriol, grinned and mix them very well, put them in a● earthen Jugg, commonly called a Long-neck place it over the fire, apply a Receiver lute● having one pound of water in it, make fire by degrees, and at last as strong as possible you can make, for the Flower will com● over both yellow and white. If you dra● of the phlegm and set them in the air, or in cold and moist place, they will resolve into Butter. If you only wash them with fai●● water often, and dry them, they are of th● same nature of Mercurius Vitae, and th● Dose is the same. If the Flowers be dissolved in Spirit of Petre, the Spirit again abstracted from thence, it leaves behind it fixed Powder, which is Bezoardicum Mineral   

Tincture of Antimony.  
TAke one part of Regulus Martis, and fou●● parts of purified Niter, mix them wel● and in a Crucible fuse them into a blue Mas● which pour out whilst hot, bray it and mi● with it one part of the pure calx of Gold, that has been seven times extracted with Aqua Regis, and after reverberated with Sulphur, put it into the Crucible again, and fuse it into a clear transparent Rub or Colour; which pour out into a heated Cone, and bray it whilst hot, and pour upon the same of the best rectified spirit of Wine, and extract the Tincture, leaving only a white Body behind; the tinged spirit of Wine put in a small Retort, and draw of the half part, and keep the remainder as a Panasea.  

It's Virtues.  
It is a most pleasant and general remedy in all Diseases, and cures those that are hurt by Mineral Vapours, or hurt by Arsenic or Mercury.    

Sulphur of Antimony.  
TAke six ounces of Antimony, 12 ounces of purified Petre, 2 ounces of Common Salt, one ounce of powdered Char-coal, mix them well and cast them in a read hot Crucible one spoonful after another, until the Crucible be full, or all your Materials in than, let melt or flow one quarter of an hour and than pour it out in a heated Cone, when 'tis cold, pour hot or warm water upon it, and this do ten or twelve times till 'tis wel● dulcified, and you have a yellow Sulphur, which dry and put up for your use.   

Salt of Antimony.  
TAke the Regulus of Antimony made pe●se, powder and searce it, put it in Long-body, put it in Sand, and by a moderate fire the Antimony will sublime, but every day brush down what is sublimed to th● botttom, which do until it all remain fixed than take it out and grind it most subtly leave it in a Cellar upon a Marble, and i● half a year it will resolve into a Liquor, som● Fecies remaining, for the Salt only melt● filter this Liquor, abstract the Phlegm in ● to a thick Liquor, set it in a moist Cella● Chrstial will shoot of a reddish white, whic● pure until they be white; Salt of Antimony may be obtained in half the time another way.   

Vinegar of Antimony.  
TAke the Es. or Mineral out of whi● Antimony is melted, beaten or grinde● to very fine powder, put it into a Long-b●dy, pour into it distilled Rain-water, that t● Glass may be half full, lute it about, putrify it in B.M. or Horse-dung, until the Es. begin to form or froth, put this digested matter in a Crucible, lute on a head and to it a Receiver, and abstract the water which will be a little acid, which being drawn of, increase the fire somewhat sublimer, which mix again with the Fecies, moisten it again with the Water, that was extracted from it, and distil as before, which labour you must reiterate until it be so strong as distilled Vinegar. Every time putting down the sublime to the Fecies, pour this Vinegar upon new easily, set in a small heat for twelve days, it will have extracted a redness; this Vinegar separate so that no Feceys come with it, and again separate the Vinegar from the read Tincture, the Tincture again extract with spirit, and reserve it as a supreme Medicine; rectify your Vinegar in B. M. that the Phlegm may be separated, than to one pound of Vinegar put four ounces of the Salt, distil it in Sand strongly, so the Vinegar will be more fortified.  

It's Use.  
This Vinegar allayeth Gangrenes, helpeth Scalding or Burn, and if it be ground with the Sulphur of Lead, so thick as an Ointment, than mixed and ground with Sal Prunella and the Water of Endive, it divideth and cures the Squinancy, and extinguish all preternatural heat.    

Mercury of Antimony.  
TO the powdered Regulus put the Spirit of Tartar, close stopped digest it two months than abstract the Vinegar to the remaining matter, add four times its weight of filing of Steel, put it in a Retort, applying a Receiver close luted, and half full of water urge it by a strong fire, the Mercury comes in fumes, and turns to true Quicksilver.   

Sulphur of Antimony.  
TAke Antimony as it comes out of th● Mine, of the best, and Petre purified, ● each equal parts, grind and mix them wel● set fire from above, and a dark matter will be left, the Alcali being separated, make Glass as before, which Glass powder and scarce, and with the Vinegar of Antimony Extract all the Tincture, the Tinctures pu● in a Glass by themselves, drive of all th● Vinegar in B. M. and a powder remains which again extract with highly purified Spirit of Wine, separate it from the Fecie● and thou hast a most read Extraction profitable in Medicine.  

In Use.  
It purgeth the Blood, cureth the Asthmatick, P'tisick, it allayeth the Cough, and cureth the diseases of the Lungs, and most violent Diseases.    

Acid Oil of Antimony.  
TAke Antimony, Sulphur, Petre, of each a like quantity, put them under a Campane, and distil them according to art, and there will come an Oil resembling the common Oil of Sulphur, but much more stronger by reason of the addition, but if you add two parts of Salt-Petre, you will have more Oil, by reason it will be more free in burning.  

It's Virtues.  
It has all the Virtues of the common Oil of Sulphur, and operates more potently, it inwardly doth help the defect of the Lungs, and outwardly to all old Sores, or Ulcers.    

Purge of Antimony.  
TAke Flower of Antimony, and grind them with their weight of decripitated Salt, put them in a gentle Body in Sand, and let them stand 16 hours in a good strong fire, the which let cool and separate the Salt, and dry for your use. These Flowers only purge downward, for the Vomitive quality of the Flowers lying in a Volatile Salt is hereby separated, and therefore rendered wholly purgative.    

Of Arsenic.  

An easy Way of purifying Arsenic from its venomous qualities.  
TAke Arsenic what quantity you please, put it in a glazed Pot finely ground, mix therewith the best and sweetest oil-olive, so that it may be all like an Ointment, and after put so much more of the said Oil that it may overtop the whole two fingers breadth, make it hot at a gentle fire for one hour, and than the Oil will be very black, which decant and add more Oil, and do as before until the Oil at last comes of as clear as it was put on, after wash the Asnick with a Lixivium of Petre that the unctuousness of the Oil may be taken away, and after cleanse it from its fixed Salt, for it is prepared.  

It's Virtues.  
It is used and approved by some to be a good Diaphoretick indangerous Pestilential Diseases.    

To Sublime Arsenic.  
TAke Arsenic one part calcined, Vitriol two parts, grind and mix them well put them into a Retort, set it in a sand kettle, make a gentle fire under for six hours, after increase it according to art, and it will rise in the neck of the Retort, part Crystalline, and part in fine Flower; the Crystalline part you must resolve and keep for your use, casting away the light powder; this must be two or three times sublimed from fresh Vitriol, and afterwards sublimed with its weight of Flowers of Sulphur Vive.  

It's Virtues.  
It is used to move Sweat, and in Diseases of the Lungs, the dose is 8 gr. it cureth outwardly Cancers, and malign Ulcers ..    

Fixing of Arsenic.  
TAke of Arsenic and Petre of each equal parts powdered, put them in a Crucible and fuse them for ten or twelve hours, and    

Of Flints.  

Powder of Flints.  
TAke Flints what quantity you please, heat them glowing hot, & quench them in cold water, and they will crack and look whitish, which after you may pulverize, searce, and keep for your use.  

It's Use.  
This Powder is used and approved by many in the Disease of the Stone.    

Oil of Flints.  
TAke Flints prepared as before, mix them with half so much of purified Salarmoniack most subtly ground together, put them in a Retort, sublime them by a strong fire in sand, this sublimation use seven times from its fecies, and there will rise a fair Sulphur, which in a cold and moist place will resolve into an Oil.  

It's Virtues.  
This Oil consumeth the Stone, and expelleth the same, mightily increaseth man's natural strength, being given in any liquor, it dissolveth calcined Gold, and carrieth it over the helm. This Oil may be made by dissolving the Flints, or more properly extracting this Sulphur with graduated Spirit of Salt, the phlegm extracted in B. the remainder will upon a stone resolve into an Oil of the same nature, as before.    

Artificial Precious Stones.  
OF Flints may be made Artificial Rubies, Emeralds, Amethists, Saphires, etc. seeming very much like Natural, for which purpose you must have Flint that are not coloured, which you may know, for which they are quenched in cold water, if any Metal be in the stone 'twill show it in veins, of read or other colour; or you may use the pure, clear chrystaline Pebbles gathered by the sea side, or of Crystals of Flints, etc. prepared into Powder, and of pure Salt of Tartar, of each alike, and of the colour you intent, so much as is necessary, fuse them so long till the Salt of Tartar be evaporated, and the Flint and colour be like fusible Glass, which is known by putting in Iron-wyer.   

Salt of Crystals.  
TAke of Crystals prepared in Powder as the Flint, put them into a Crucible with two parts of Niter, fuse them for some hours and than separate the alcali with often ablution with water.  

It's Use.  
The Crystal thus prepared, are good Divereticks and Stone-breakers.    

Of Talc.  
REduce English Talc, or Venice Talc into fine powder, wash it well with water, until it come of clear, and dry it, than dissolve it in Aquafortis, and when the solution is made, precipitate the matter with Spirit of Wine or Urine, and it will precipitate, which wash well with water, and keep it for your use.  

It's Use.  
It is a very good Fucus, and is used in the deformities of the skin, as the Freckles and Sunburnt.    

Calination of Talc.  
TAke one part of Talc, and four parts of Salt-petre, grinned and mix them well, and artificially distil them in a Vessel containing burning coals, let a large Receiver be applied, and you obtain in the Receiver Flower and Spirits, and in your Distilling-vessel will remain a white mass, and sometimes a little radish, which take cut and dissolve it in fair water, and a white powder will precipitate, which wash well and dry, and keep for your use: but if it precipitate not well, than a little Spirit of Vinegar, or Salt, and it will all precipitate; dry this powder and keep it for your former use, the Flower may also be dulcified, and keep for the same use.   

Spirit Flores, of Zinck or Spelter.  
IF two parts of Spelter be mixed with one part of Salt-petre, and distilled as that of Talc, you obtain a great many Flowers, with a Spirit and Oil.  

It's Virtues.  
They provoke Sweated abundantly, and sometimes Stools and Vomits, the Dose is two Grains, outwardly they consolidate fresh Wounds, old Sores, such as always drop water, they are great dryers, they may be strewed by themselves, or made up with some unguent, and in plasters, or in deep wounds, let a Suppository be made with Honey and these Flowers boiled together to a hardness, and so put in the wound, and over it a same plaster. If strewed upon the place healeth the galding of children, or others.    

Preparation of Lapis Calaminaris.  
TAke one part of Lapis Calaminaris, and three parts of Petre, let all be powdered, and well mixed, and put in a very clean Iron-kettle, and a fire made under until it melt; keep it thus fusing until the mass be ●f a deep green colour, which sign appearing take it of, and before 'tis cold put in a good quantity of fair water, and all the greenness will be extracted out of the fecies, which immediately decant in a Glass-body, let it stand a little, the green will precipitate in a read powder, which edulcorate and dry for your use. Or if you take the water before the green be precipitated, and coagulate into a green mass, you may extract the Tincture with the Spirit of Wine, the most part of the Spirit again extracted, you have a Tincture of the Nature of Gold of excellent use.  

The Virtue of the Powder and Tincture.  
It hath the same virtues of the Flowers of Antimony, but more effectual and far more safe, it causeth gentle Stools and Vomits, purging forth choler, and evacuating phlegmatic humours from the stomach, and such other tough humours as will yield to no other Catharticks; they open Obstructions, resist the putrefaction of the blood, helps Agues, Fevers, Hppocondraick Melancholy, Scorbutic Distempers, and such as are infected with the Lues Veneria.  
The Tincture being continually used, is good for all the aforesaid Diseases inwardly, outwardly it cureth all sorts of Ulcers of the body. Those of the Mouth, the Cancer, Fistula, Wolf, Nolimetangere, or any kind of eating Serpentine Ulcers, such as continually run, or drop water, or the like.     

Of Sulphur.  

Flower of Sulphur.  
SUlphur may be distilled by itself, but if to one part of Sulphur you add two parts of Colcother of Vitriol, or common Salt, both powdered a part and than mixed, may be sublimed Flower far more excellent in Medicine.  

It's Virtues.  
It is a great Dryer, and is used in Disease's of the Lungs, etc. and for Worms in Children, for Distillations or Catarrhs, for Scabs and Itch, etc.    

To purify the Flower of Brimstone.  
TAke one part of Flowers prepared, as before, two parts of common Salt, grind and mix them well upon a stone, and add to them in grinding some Spirit o● Salt, so that it may be like Paste, which ended put it into a glazed Pipkin, and pour to it so much fair water as will cover it six inches, boil it (keeping it stirring with a stick) until two hours be over or more, than take it of and let it cool, and decant th● water, and the white matter will settle, which if it be not white enough, put mor● Water, and Salt and Vinegar, and Alum, and boil it again until no Tincture ris● from the Brimstone, but it remain pure and white, which after dry and keep for you use.  

It's Use▪  
This is more purer than the Flower, b● reason of its preparation, 'tis a great Disficature used in all kind of Scabs, Itchy Boils, Sores, old Ulcers, Ulcers of th● Lungs, drieth up defluxion that falleth upon the Breast and Lungs, expels Phlegm, kill Worms; for the Lungs or inward Diseases it may be given in any Syrup, or made into a Balsam, with Oil of Turpentine. Out wardly, it may be mixed with any Ointment Oil proper, and so used, or with some Pomatum, or with Butter; The Dose inwardly, is from a scruple to a dram.    

Balsam of Sulphur.  
TAke one part of Flowers of Brimstone, and two parts of Oil of Turpentine, put them in a Long Body, set it in Sand, make a fire under that is not very big, continued this for eight or nine hours, and than let it cool and decant your Balsam, keeping it in a Glass for your use.   

Tincture of Sulphur.  
TAke Balsam of Sulphur put in a Long-body, and put into it some Salt of Tartar calcined until it looks blue, and after for two hours' melte● in the fire, separate all the Oil of Turpentine by distillation to a dry Mass, out of which in B. M. with Spirit of Wine extract a Tincture.  

I●● Virtues.  
This Tincture is a good Diaphoretic, and likewise purgeth by Urine, it driveth out Surfeits, the Small pox, Meazels, helpeth Coughs, Catarrhs, Appetite lost, driveth out Gravel in the Reinss, helpeth the Consumptive, Ulcers in the Lungs; outwardly it cureth Itch, new Sores or old Ulcers; the Dose inwardly to be taken daily is to six drops, but to sweated upon it, to one dram.    

Tincture of Sulphur.  
TAke one pound of Flowers of Sulphur, put it in a Long-body, place it in Sand, make a good fire under for ten or twelve hours 'twill extract a read Tincture, after coagulate the same Tincture into a read dry Mass, which extract which Spirit of Urine; extract the Spirit of Urine again from the Tincture, par B. M. to blood read Liquor, which extract again with Spirit of Wine, and 'twill be of a fair redness, and of a yellowish cast poured into any Liquors, and not unpleasant.   

Oil of Sulphur par Campane.  
THis Oil of Sulphur is made in Glass, which opens at the Top in this Form following.   glass for making oil of sulphur 
B A Ring about the Glass, whereby it may the more facilely be handled when hot.  
C Represents the body of the Bell, which the Brimstone in burning must keep always very hot, else little Spirits will come.  
D The Basin placed under to receive the Oil, with some water in it, that the Spirits may not corode the Basin.  
E The Earthen Vessel set in the Basin of water, containing the Brimstone to be burnt.  
FF are square pieces of Glass, or Glass Bottles set upon the Brim of the Basin, upon which the Campane must stand, there must be three at lest.  
To put this in use, you must take the Vessel E, fill it full of powdered Brimstone, set it in the Basin D, than let the square piece F F, viz. three of them at equal distance upon the brim of the Basin, so that the Bell may handsomely stand upon them, than with a read hot Iron thrust into the Brimstone, set it well a fire, and clap over your Bell C, taking of it of the Ring B, and stir it well with a read hot Iron, and when the Brimstone is decayed or burnt, supply i● with more; your Oil will distil down th● sides of the bell into the Basin, which whe● the distillation is ended, pour out in a glas● and keep for your use.  

It's Virtue.  
It is good in such Diseases as are accompanied with wind or putrified humours or Melancholy; it giveth help to Fevers Agues, quenches the preternatural thirst● relieveth the stomach, dissipateth tough Phlegm, it cleanseth the Reinss, bringet● forth Gravel; It helpeth all Inflammation internal or external. It helpeth Wound● Ulcers, Cancers, Nolimetangere, or an● stinking, nasty, putrid Sores, and ma● other Diseases.      

The Third BOOK. Of the Preparation of Metals.  

Mercury Sublimate.  
TAke of Mercury, of Vitriol calcined yellow, of decrepitated Salt, of each one pound, of Salt Petre 4 ℥ grind and mix them well upon a stone, put them into a Retort, apply a Receiver luted, distil it with a small fire until all the Spirit be come forth, and the neck begin to look white take away the Receiver, stop the mouth with Cotten, and increase your fire for eight or ten hours more or till all be sublimed, if it be well done, 'twill be the same weight 'twas before or heavier, you may reiterate the sublimations as often as you please.  

Read Precipitate.  
TAke three parts of Spirit of Salt-Petre, and Vitriol or Aquafortis, and Spirit of Quicksilver, set it in Sand till it is dissolved; than urge the fire that all the Spirits be evaporated dry, than pour upon it so much more Aquafortis, dissolve it and do as before; do this a third time, a fair read Precipitate remaineth, put this in a Glazed earthen Vessel that will hold not more, lute on a lid, and set it in a Sand Kettle for 24 hours with a strong fire under, and than edulcerate and dry the same.  

It's Use.  
It is excellent for all old Sores which cannot be helped with other Medicines, it cleanseth and healeth them; It eateth away all dead and proud Flesh.    

Turbith Mineral.  
TAke two parts Spirit of Niter, six parts Oil of Vitriol, and one part of Quicksilver, set it in Sand four hours, abstract the Spirits, and the Mercury looketh somewhat yellow, do this three times with fresh Spirit and it will be at the highest, always making a strong fire, at last dulcify it with warm water until 'tis sweet.  

It's Use.  
It purges strongly, and often provoketh to Vomit, it is used in the Pox, and the verrulent Gonorrhoea. This Turbith may be made by Spirit of Sulphur, adding two parts of Oil of Sulphur to one of Mercury.    

White Precipitate.  
DIssolve one pound of Mercury in two pounds of Aquafortis, and by addition of salt water precipitate it into a white Powder, pour the water by inclination, and that Precipitate wash with fair water until the Acrimony be lost, than dry it.  

It's Virtues.  
It's inward Doses is from six to twelve gr. it is especially used in venerial Diseases, it purges downward, and being mixed with Ointment is used outwardly, by friction cureth the Itch.    

Mercurius Diphoreticus.  
TAke purified Sol. in thin Laments one part, the mineral Eagle purified twelve parts, mix them according to Art into an Amalgama, put them into a retort of Glass, put upon the same twice the weight of the Amalgama of the sweet read Lion, digest it twenty four hours and than distil it of until all the moisture be separated, make a strong fire at last, this done put as much more of the read Lion, do this three times, and every time making the fire very strong, at the end take your Retort out, pour freshwater into it a great quantity, set it in Sand, and boil the water, than decant it, and wash it with more fresh water many times, and dry the same, pour upon it the spirit of Wine, stop it close and set it in B. twenty four hours, than decant it and put on more, this do three times and 'tis prepared; If this be again put to its weight of the read Oil, and three parts of good spirit of Wine digested in B. it resolveth into a read Oil.  

It's Use.  
It is a most excellent Medicine, the Dose from 5 to 8 gr. use morning and evening, sweeting two hours upon it, in the Pox if any pustles arise use the read Oil of Calcothar, it cureth likewise the Gout, Dropsy, Pleurisy.    

Purging Mercury.  
IF from Mercury the Oil of Salt be once abstracted, it leaves a white Precipitate, which only purges downward.  

It's Use.  
It cureth the Pox, Gonorrhoea, heals the Ulcers of the Bladder, and Throat, and radically cureth the Gout, and all Favours, the dose is 8 gr. if the Liquor of the whites o● Eggs be three times abstracted, and will be read and called Arcanem Corallinem.    

Mercurius Dulcis.  
TAke Quicksilver twelve ounces, of Mercury sublimate one pound, grind them together, adding by little and little the Quicksilver, and if you please add a little distilled Vinegar, mix it so that not live Mercury appear, and it look blackish, than put it to sublime in sand in a Retort, for eight or ten hours, let it cool, cut of the Glass, and separate the matter sublimed from the fecies, and sublime it once again by itself.  

It's Virtues.  
This Medicine is much used in the French Pox, Gonorrhoea; the Dose from 15 to 30 grains in any proper Pill.    

To make Mercury of Metals.  
TAke Saturn, Jupiter, or Luna, in thin Laments, pour upon them distilled Vinegar, and twice their weight of purified Salarmoniack and Salt of Tartar, let them stand ten or twelve days until they be dissolved, and than distil them into a Receiver, holding fair water: but the best way is as the Mercury of Antimony.   

Oil, or Water of Mercury.  
MElt Tin, and when 'tis almost coagulated add to it equal weight of Mercury or Quicksilver, which incorporate until they become a Paste, which finely grind● on a stone, and add to it of sublimate so much as it weigheth, work them together, and i● a moist place they will resolve into water which distil par Retort, and keep the wate● for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
It cureth Cancer, Nolimetangere, eating Ulcers, and the like.    

Arcanem Corallinem.  
TAke of the read Precipitate one part, pou● upon it fair warm water, stir it and waste often until it be sweet, put this sweet Precipitate into a Retort, decrepitated common Salt half a part, and two parts of Spirit of Salt, set it in Sand, draw of the Spirit of Salt, and at last make the strongest fir● you can in Sand, for the Spirit of Salt wil● fix the Mercury, so as to be fit for Medicine, sweeten the Precipitate with much warm water, and after reverberate it by itself.  

It's Virtues.  
It purges and cureth the Pox, and verruleth the Gonorrhoea, the dose is to 8 gr.     

Of Lead and Tin.  

To calcine Lead.  
MElt Lead in an Earthen Crucible, add to it thus melted its weight of Qucksilver, and than stir it till it become a Powder, which wash with Salt and Vinegar and after with water till the blackness be extinct, and it become fair and sweet, than calcine it with Salt in a Reverberatory, and edulcerate the matter for 'tis prepared to make the Mercury.   

To calcine Lead. or Tin.  
MElt it in an Iron kettle and purge it well, and cast into the same a little Salarmoniack, increase the fire that the pan be read hot, than add one quarter part of prepared Salt, and one eight part of the calx of Vitriol and Petre, and keep it in a strong fire till it be rubified than dulcify it.  

It's Virtues.  
This Calx is used in good success in Plasters and Unguents for new and old Sores, and for Burns and Scalding.    

To Calcine ♄ purse.  
MElt Lead in a Leaden kettle, cleanse it from the Scoria or Dross, increase the fire that the Matter be read hot, continually stirring it with an Iron Spatula until 'tis reduced into a Calx, which searce and reverberate into Minium.   

To sublime Lead or Tin.  
TAke one part of Calx of Lead, and one part of pure Salt-Petre, distil them according to Art, and you get pure white Flowers.  

It's Virtues.  
They are used in Unguents and Plasters, to dry and heal, and appease all outward Inflammations, or where places are galled.    

Lacca Virgins.  
IF equal parts of Salt or Sugar of Lead, and salt Gem be dissolved in Plantain-water, and afterwards mixed together makes a Milk that taketh away redness in the Face, Sun-burn, Morphew, Freckles, Pimples, Pushes, or any Inflammations.   

Salt, Spirit, and Oil of Lead, or Tin.  
TAke Letharge, pour upon the same good distilled Vinegar in a Pipkin, boil it over a fire for six or eight hours, that done put on more distilled Vinegar, and boil it again with the Fecies eight or ten hours, and than decant it to the other Vinegar; these tinged Vinegers put into a Pipkin and evaporate the Vinegar to a Skim or the half part, and set it in a cold place Crystal will shoot, and with a wooden spoon take them out; than boil the remaining Liquor to a Skim, set it in a cold place Crystal will shoot, put these Crystals together, dry them and keep them for your use: but if you will make an Oil than dissolve these Crystals in fresh Vinegar, and proceed with boiling, and after chrystalizing, until they are sufficiently impregnated with the Salarmoniack of the Vinegar, than digest them in B. M. until they be resolved into a water, or liquor, which distil par Retort in sand, and there will come over an Oil of most fragrant smell, and a yellow Oil at the top, and read Oil at the bottom.  

It's Virtues.  
The Salt dissolved in Rose-water and dropped in the eyes, cureth Inflammations.  
If upon the Saccarum Saturni, or Crystals, you digest Oil of Turpentine, you extract a blood read Tincture, which is called Balsam of Saturn.    

To make Glass of all colours, for the Inamelling of Rings, etc.  
TAke one part of Minium, & three parts of Crystals, or Powder of Flints, set them in a Potter's Furnace, and fuse them into a Glass, which will be green or yellow; of this Glass, Venice Glass, ashes of Jupiter, and the proper colours mixed may be made Glass diversely, and such as the Goldsmith's use, but the best Glass is mentioned before: as for the colouring of Glasses you may find in another place.   

Spirit and Oil of Saturn.  
IF Vinegar of the Philosophers be so often poured upon Letarge of Saturn, drying it every time, and so continuing inbibing and drying the same, until it will not more dry by a small heat, which than put into a Retort, and distil a sweet Spirit, and read Oil, or Balsam.    

Of Iron, or Steel.  

Crocus Martis.  
TAke of the Filings of Steel and Sulphur, of each equal parts, grind or mix them well, and put them in a Crucible, set them in a Furnace in a naked fire, until the Sulphur be all burnt, which being ended, extract the Tincture with distilled Vinegar, the Vinegar again abstracted leaves a read Crocus, which calcine in a Furnace for two hours, and wash away the Acrimony with warm water.  

It's Use.  
The use of Crocus Martis is usual to stop Fluxes of the Belly, Diarrhea, and Decentery. Externally used in Ointments and Plasters, for the drying up Wounds or Ulcers. Note that if the Salt be not well cleared from the Crocus, than 'tis rather opening than binding; and Steel unprepared is better than that in the body.    

Oil, and Crocus Martis.  
Dissolving the Filing of Steel in Aquafortis, or distilled Vinegar, and the Solution pour of from Fecies, and draw of the acid Spirit and the Crocus remaineth, which lay upon a stone in a cold and moist place, will resolve itself into a Balsam, or Oil.   

It's Virtues.  
It helpeth all coroding Ulcers, Fistulaes', Cancers, etc.   

Crocus Martis.  
TAke fresh Calxvive as much as you need, and moisten it with Urine until it be like Pap, take a Crucible at the bottom, make a lay of this lime, and upon it a lay o● Steel-dust, and so to the filling of the pot and than firmly lute and set it in a Potter Furnace for 24 hours, than let it be cannoneer very fine and searsed, and after wash awa● the Lime.   

Oil, or Tincture of Mars.  
TAke one part of Crocus Martis, and three parts of Nitre, fuse them very strongly for four hours, which pour out in a Cone, and whilst hot bray it, and extract the Tincture with Spirit of Urine, and after with Spirit of Wine; the half of the Spirit of Wine separated leaves a good Tincture, safely to be taken in Fluxes of the Belly, without any danger.   

Ens Mars, and Oil of Mars.  
TAke Crocus Mars, inbibe it with the water of Salarmoniack, two or three ●imes a day before the fire, stirring it until it ●as inbibed its weight of Salarmoniac, than ●ry the same, put it in a Sublimetory, and ●y degrees of fire, yet at last very strong, you may sublime the Tincture, or Ens Maris, which you may extract with Spirit of Wine, and than the half part of the Spirit ●gain abstracted, leaves the true Tincture ●r Oil of Mars, and a most excellent Medicine.   

Salt, or Vitriol of Mars.  
TAke one part of the Oil of Vitriol, and two parts of common water, put it into a Long-body of Glass, and put therein your Powder of Steel, set it in a sand-kettle, let it boil till the Oil will dissolve not more, pour away that liquor, filter it through a Brown Paper, and put it into a short Glass, set it in sand, and make the phlegm to evaporate to skin appearing, than let it cool, set it in a cold place green Crystal will shoot, take them out and dry them upon a filtering paper, the remaining liquor which did not shoot, you must evaporate again to a skin, and more Crystal will shoot, and do this till all the liquor be turned into Vitriol.   

It's Virtues.  
It is operative or opening very much, it opens the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, cureth the Green-sickness, bringeth down women's Courses, helpeth th● Jaundice; the Dose is from one scruple t● one dram.   

Oil, and Flower of Mars.  
TAke of the Crocus Mars made with A quafortis (but the Spirit must not b● drawn of too dry) and pure Salt-petre, of each equal weight, mix them well and distil them, and there will come over flower very useful for Surgeons, as you may read of the Crocus; but these flowers, the body being more opened by sublimation, are the more excellent for use. If the flowers of Mars, or any other Metal be dissolved in Aquafortis, and a like weight of Salt of Wine even fificated, dissolved in the same menstruum, these joined together and distilled, the Metal will come over in an Oil.    

Of Silver.  

To calcine Luna with Mercury.  
MAke Luna in very thin Plates or Laments, than take of Mercury six parts make the Luna very hot in a Crucible, than take it of and pour into it the Mercury, stir it together until it be brought to a Powder, than add to it of common Salt that is decrepitated, set it to the fire again until the Mercury vanish, than edulcorate the Matter, and 'tis calcined.   

To calcine Luna with Aquafortis.  
DIssolve Luna in Aquafortis, to one part of Luna take three of the water, set it to dissolve in ashes by a very small heat, which pour of in a Glass or Glazed Pan, and upon this solution put a great quantity of Salt water, and your Silver will turn into white Curds, which will precipitate and fall to the bottom; which wash well with fair water and a white Calx remains, which put up in a bottle close stopped for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
It is used by Ladies and Gentlewomen as a most excellent Fucus to give an ornament to the Face.    

Purging Crystals of Silver.  
TAke one part of Luna and half a part of Mercury, with three times its weight of water made out of the cold Earthen-Salt, set them in Sand, let the Matter dissolve in in a gentle heat, than separate the solution and draw of the Spirits to a skim, and crystal will shoot like Allum-stones.  

It's Virtues.  
These are used from six to five grains in Pills for to purge the head, and to cure the Venerial Diseases.    

Crystals, or Vitriol of Luna.  
TAke the water of Niter, dissolve in the same your Luna, separate it from Fecies if any, abstract the one third part to a skim, set it in a cold place and Crystal will shoot, which is the true Vitriol of Luna.  

It's Virtues.  
It may be very safely used inwardly for purging the Body in Diseases of the Brain: but it is very bitter and therefore not toothsome; its dose is to twelve grains, it may be put to a little water of Walnuts, and it will die the Hair black; If it were made with Aquafortis made of Vitriol, and the Luna pure without mixture of other.     

Of Venus.  

Crocus Veneris.  
TAke thin plates of Copper and Sulphur a like proportion, lay them stratum super straetum in a melting Pot, cover it close and set it in an open fire until the Brimstone be all burnt, than take it out, the Plates will grow thick and like a black Crust, powder them in a Mortar, and wash them well with warm water ten or twelve times, and than dry them, and with distilled Vinegar extract a blue colour; from whence abstract all the Vinegar, and a Crocus remains, which reverberate by itself in a Crucible, and sweeten it with warm water.   

Crocus Veneris.  
TAke thin Plates of Copper, and in a earthen unglased Pot lay them stratum super stratum with decrepitated Salt, let the Salt be first and last, set it in an open fire by little and little, till at last it be read hot, cast them than out in a Vessel of cold water, and cleanse the Plates from their blackness, and salt and dry them, and with Salt again calcine them and cast them in cold water, than let the water wherein the Plates were quenched be mixed with hot water, wash them from blackness, and the Crocus will be left at the bottom very read; which wash very well, and grind to a most subtle Powder.   

Crocus Veneris, and Verdigreece.  
TAke good Calx Vive as much as you need, and moisten them with Urine until it be like Pap, put some of the Pap at the bottom of your Pot, and than your Copper Plates, and after your Lime till the Pot be full, let the Lime be uppermost, jute on a head and set it in the Potter's Furnace for twenty four hours; than take out the Matter and beaten it to most subtle Powder, and wash away the Calx Vive with warm water, and dry the remaining Matter and keep for your use.  

It's Virtues.  
This Crocuses are used by Chirurgeons to make their Styptic Plasters, and to mix with Unguents, in venerial Sores.  
Amalgama, Honey, Salt, Vinegar and Laments of Venus, and calcine the same, and all the Venus will be converted in Verdigreece.    

Corrosive Oil of Venus.  
TAke Plates of Copper or Crocus Veneris pour upon the same good Spirit of Salt, and extract the greenness; if any Fecies remain separate them, and from the dissolved Body draw of in B. the Spirit of Spirit, and a green mass remaineth, which placed upon a stone will resolve in a cold and moist place into green Oil▪  

It's Virtues.  
It cureth all old Ulcers, Fistulaes', Cancers, Nolimetangere, or stinking putrified Ulcers, and any venomous Sores.    

Ens Veneris.  
TAke reverberated Crocus, make it moist in a earthen dish with Spirit of Wine, and let it dry before the fire, do this ten times and than mix them with equal weight of Salarmoniack, which after sublime three or four times by itself, and you obtain a yellow golden Powder, of the same use as the former Ens Veneris.   

Flowers of Venus, or Copper.  
TAke Venus that has been dissolved in Aquaforttis, and it again separated almost to a dryness in B. grind them with equal weight of Salt Petre, and distil them according to Art, and you obtain a great many Flowers.   


It's Virtues.  
These Flowers are used in the same manner as the Crocus, in Plasters and Unguents, but more effectual.    

Salt, or Vitriol of Venus.  
TAke Verdigreece powdered (beware of the fumes) pour upon the same distilled Vinegar, and extract the Tincture, separate the coloured Vinegar, and put on more Vinegar, extract the Tincture as long as any will arise; these coloured Spirits pour together, and draw of the Acitum to a skin arising on the top; than set it in a cold place Crystal will shoot, which take out and evaporate the Vinegar as before to skin, more Crystal will shoot; take them out and proceed as before until all the Tincture be converted into Vitriol, this Vitriol eight or ten times extracted with fresh Vinegar, and than ditilled, it yields a read Oil, which turn Mars into Vitriol.  

It's Virtues.  
They are used inwardly in Gonorrhoea, outwardly used for the Itch or Scabs.     

Of Gold.  

To Calcine Gold with Mercury.  
TAke eight parts of Mercury, set it in a fire in a Crucible till it begin to smoke, than take it of and add one part of thin pieces of Gold, stir it until you see no more Gold, than set it to the fire again, and stir it so long until all the Mercury evaporate, take out the Powder of Gold and grind it with its weight of decrepitated Salt, put it in a Crucible, and set it to calcine again for a few hours, than take it out and wash away the Salt, and a yellow Calx remains, keep for your use.   

To purge and calcine Gold by Aqua Regis.  
PUt one ounce of Gold, and one dram of Gold, into three parts of Aqua Regis, dissolve it in warm sand, the Luna will descend in a black Calx, and lie at the bottom of the Glass, decant the Aqua Regis containing the Gold, and precipitate it with Oil of Tartar, or Spirit of Salarmoniac, or put in so much Mercury as will dissolve that water, and the acid Spirits will forsake the Gold and dissolve the Mercury, the Gold falling to the bottom in a yellow Calx; but if that water is not sufficient to dissolve all the Mercury you put in, you must add more. This yellow Calx thus purely purged, wash well with Rain-water, and after dry in the sun, or before a small heat of fire.   

Purging and exalting Gold by Cementation.  
TAke of Gold, of Copper, of each one ounce, melt them together, and cast them in an Ingote, beaten them in thin Laments, put them in strong distilled Vinegar, for 24 hours, than take Tiles powdered, Salt purified, and decrepitated, Vitriol rubified and dissolved in distilled Vinegar, which coagulate and calcine it again. Of Verdigreece dissolved in Vinegar and coagulated, and Salarmoniack purified and dissolved in distilled Vinegar, as much as there is of the other Powders, make these Powders moist with the Armoniac Vinegar, and make a lay of this Paste in the pot, than a lay of your Gold and Copper, and again a lay of Paste, until the pot be full, let the uppermost be the Powder; Lute on a Lead with a hole in the middle, set it in a Potter's Furnace for 24 hours, and than take it out, separate the matter from the plates, and do this seven times with new powder, melting the Gold with new Copper, and your Gold will be so much augmented in Colour or Tincture, that if it were melted down with its weight of Silver, yet it would be at the height of Gold in colour, and like fine Gold.  
If Gold be heated read hot, and quenched several times in the water where new melted Lead has before been often quenched, it will be augmented in its weight.   

Tincture of Gold.  
TAke of Gold purged as before, one part, and six parts of Mercury, make it into an Amalgama, and to it add two parts of common Sulphur, put it into a broad pan over a fire, and let it evaporate, continually stirring it, and let it be a small fire, 'twill at last be brought into a Calx, which you must reverberate strongly, and than powder it; to this Powder add three parts of Aqua Regis, set it to dissolve in sand for three or four hours, and the Solution decant and put on more water, and extract the remainder, which decant and put to the other; set these Solutions in a Long-body, with a Still-head luted set it in B. M. with a Receiver fast luted, make a small heat for 24 hours, and than draw of the Spirits, cohobate them seven times, than let it stand in digestion nine days, and again draw of the Spirits to an Olitie, than add fresh Spirits, digest them 24 hours, separate the Fecies, if any be, and abstract the Spirits to a specitude, set them in a cold and moist place, Crystal will shoot, take them out and abstract more Spirit, more Crystal will shoot; do thus till all the Gold is converted into Crystals, dissolve these Crystals in distilled Rain-water, and add to it three parts of Mercury purged, shake it about many colours will appear, and the Amalgama fall to the bottom, and the Water will clear up; take the Amalgama, wash it well with water and dry it, put it in an earthen Vessel, evaporate the Mercury, stirring it continually, and a purple coloured powder will remain, which extract with the Animal Mercury, and there will arise a blood read Tincture, which decant from the Fecies, after the Tincture is extracted, put them in digestion close stopped for eight or ten days, than draw of the Spirits two or three times in B. M. the Calx remains as read as blood; which extract once again with well rectified Spirit of Wine, and you have the true Tincture of Gold, not to be paralleled by any other Medicine.  

It's Virtues.  
The virtues of this Medicine is great, and generally to be used in all Diseases of what rank soever; It preserveth health & strength of the body, keeping it free from Diseases, until old age, and not that only, but the most violent and malign Diseases, as the Leprosy, Gout, Dropsy, Apoplexy, Epilepsy, Hypocondraick Melancholy, the Lues Venerea, the Asthma, Ptissick, Inward Imposthumes, and all other Diseases either Cronick or Acute. The Dose is to seven or eight drops in some convenient Spirit, and so sweated upon the same in bed.    

Oil of Talc.  
TAke English Talc commonly called Spade, beaten and searce it into most subtle Powder; take thereof twelve pounds, pour upon the same good distilled Vinegar, let it overtop it a hands breadth, set it in B. M. stir it with a stick three or four times a day, and let it stand so about eight days, and the Vinegar will be tinged yellowish, decant the same and put on more, and set it again in digestion until it hath again got a Tincture, this do three times, and than put the tinged Spirits together, and draw away the Vinegar in a small heat of B. M. until it drop not more, until the remainder be dry and of a white Mass; which put into a Retort, and in Sand make fire by degrees for forty eight hours, distil of a white water and read Oil reserve each by itself; the Fecies calcine for eight days, and than with distilled Vinegar extract the Salt, which filter and congeal so often until it be pure white, and Chrystaline you may know when the Fecies will yield no more Salt by the whiteness of the Vinegar; if this Salt be ground upon a stone, and be put into a earthen dish and inbibed with the white Oil, stirring it with a stick three or four times a day, and covering it with a cloth, and this inbibing be continued until it hath drawn the double or triple weight of the white Oil, in such wise that being cast upon a read hot Plate of Venus, it disparses itself in fumes; than sublime the same, and you attain a foliated white Earth, which will have a great brightness, and perspecuity, than can be seen in the most rich oriential Pearls, which hath admirable faculties and properties; this close luted set in B. M. will resolve itself in a most clear transparent white Oil, or in a cold and moist place.  

It's Virtue.  
This above all others is the most excellent Fucus in the world, for without doing the lest prejudice to nature, it maketh the old age look young and lively, it taketh away all Wrinkles, Morphey, Sun-burn, Spots, or other such like defects at once or twice using at most, by only anointing the Face.    

Of the colouring of Glass.  
FOr a Sea green take from four to six gr. of the read calcined Venus, with one ounce of Glass; the Iron in the same proportion or to ten grains, maketh a yellow, or Jacinth colour.  
Silver calcined and precipitated as before from Aquafortis, edulcorated and dried, whereof to six grains added to one ounce of Glass, make a mixed colour.  
Gold precipitated with Liquor of Flints edulcorated and dried, whereof from grains four to thirty grains in one ounce of Glass, maketh a most elegant Saphire; from three to six grains of the Rub mentioned in the treatise of Antimony, be added to one ounce of Glass, it giveth a most perfect Rub co●our, Magnesia Parlaerized from six to four●een grains maketh an Amathist; The Tincture of Lapis Calaminaris giveth a yellow ●olour.   

The best way for the calcining of Metals, for the colouring Glass, and for painting.  
TAke the filings of thin Laments, or filings of Copper, add to it twice as much Mercury, and grind them upon a Marble, ●ith some distilled Vinegar, and some Salt, ●nd they will come into a Mass, than wash ●way the Salt and Vinegar with common water till the Mass be bright as silver, but ●oft; than set it in a gentle heat all night, ●t will be hard, than grind it with a little Quicksilver more, (and not too much that it ●ay be very liquid) and set it in a gentle ●eat again until it be very hard, and this ●ork reiterate till it will drink up no more Quicksilver; than are the Filings burst in atoms; than evaporate the Quicksilver ●n a Crucible with a gentle heat first, and ●fter make it read hot, so will the Copper be ●n a read Powder; this read Powder must be ●amped in a Marble Mortar, with warm ●ater, and ever as the warm water is coloured read, it must be poured into a J● Glass, and new water put to it, and so th● work must be reiterated until it will colo● the water not more, than let the water s●●● all night till the Copper be settled at th● bottom, than pour of the clear water a●● dry the rest in the Sun, or by a gentle he● and it will be as fine as any Wheat-flower which may be ground upon a Painter's Marble stone with Gum water, until a Painte● may paint with it, or it will serve to mi● Glass, and to give it what colour you please according to the nature of the Metal or Mineral.  
Thus (courteous Reader) having finished my persent intended work, if thou bestow s● much labour as to read this Book, and put i● in practice, I wish thee as to myself, good success in all thy lawful and godly endeavours, and so commend both them and the to the Lord.    
FINIS.