A short discours of the excellent doctour and knight, maister Leonardo Phiorauanti Bolognese vppon chirurgerie VVith a declaration of many thinges, necessarie to be knowne, neuer written before in this order: whervnto is added a number of notable secretes, found out by the saide author. Translated out of Italyan into English, by Iohn Hester, practicioner in the arte of distillation.

Our solyble siroppe with the order to vse it.

SOlyble siropes made in decoction are very whol∣some and of great facultie, & specially in the cru∣dite of humours, and the reason is this: bicause it dis∣perseth the matter, and euacuateth it with great ease, and without daunger or trouble of the Patient, and the order to make it is thus.

Rec. Sage, Rosemary, Worme-wood, Cicory, Car∣dus sanctus, Nettels, Organy, of each a handfull. Figs, Raisons, Dates, swéet Almonds, Sal gem, ana ounc. 4. Coloquintida, Aloes hepatica, Cinamon, Mirabolani citrini, ana ounc. 2. Common hunny, two pound.

Stampe them all grosely, and put them to infuse in eightéene pounds of faire water, then boyle it till halfe be consumed, then strayne it, and distill it by a filter, and aromatise it with two caretes of Muske and a pint of Rose-water, and then it is made, the which ye shall kéepe in a bottell of glasse close stopte, the quantitie is from foure ounces to sixe ounces.

In Winter you shall take it very warme. And in the Spring and Autumne, ye shall take it but warm. In Summer ye shall take it colde, for this purgeth

the grose humors of the body, and hurteth not the sto∣macke, ye may vse it in a feuer .4. or 5. dayes together, and it will helpe it. In cruditie of humours, as the French Pockes, Goutes, Cattares, Doglie Artetiche, and such lyke matters, where there is no accident of Feuer, ye may take it .x. or .xv. dayes together, & can∣not hurt by any meanes, for it purgeth most excellent, it is giuen against the Cough, against fluxe of the v∣rine, & paynes in the head, and carnositie in the yard, for the Hemerhodes, and in summe it is good against al diseases caused of corrupt humors, for it hath such ver∣tue, that it draweth from al parts, and euacuateth the humours intestinall, for of this Siroppe I haue had great experience, in such persons as were in manner banished and had lost their taste, and presently vsing this, they came to good temperature, and I haue vsed it an infinite number of times, in persons that were vlcerated, and full of sores, euil bandeled of Fortune, and of the infirmitie, and finding no meanes to cure them as they should be, I gaue them this Sirop four∣téene or fiftéene dayes, and then they were cured, with a number of other things the which would be too long to write, and therefore I would wish euery one to vse this, not onely in the afore-sayd matters, but in all o∣ther diseases.