Balsamum vrinae, the which through the great vertues it hath, deserueth to be called Catholicum, and is made thus.
TAke the vrine of yong Children aboute the age of 12. * 1.1yeares, that hath dronke wine for certaine moneths if it be possible, the same putrify in Balneo, or dung, a philo∣sophers yeare, then distill it with a gentle fire in sand being also luted, the which ye shall note diligently: the fleme ye shall put vpon the feces 4. times, then the last water keepe close shut, the which is white and stinking, and therfore ye may giue it both tast and smell with sinamom and sugar, the feces that remained in the bottom being blacke yee shall sublime by degrees of fire, and you shall haue a most pre∣cious salt, the which some affirme will dissolue gold, siluer & other mettalles: some philosophers call it their menstrua. The vertues of this Balsamum vrinae are infinite, and may rightly be called Catholicum remedium, because it hath mar∣uellous vertues in all maner of diseases, and doth nourish nature wonderfullie by his similitude and not by contrarie∣tie. It cureth the dropsie, prouoketh vrine and menstrua that are suppressed, it resisteth corruption, it cureth the plague, and sundrie feuers, as pestilential, tercians, quartanes, and quotidianes, it withstandeth vomitting.
There is no doubt but that al these vertues are contained in this blessed Mumia: for that we see the effect in crude v∣rine, for it moueth vrine and menstrua, it cureth tumors & the dropsie, it helpeth the paines and wind in the gut••es, & collicke, it is profitable against the feuer tercian, quartan, & quotidian, and against the plage and pestilent feuer it is a re∣medy, if it be dronke 15. daies together with safron: or cer∣taine graines of this powder following, whose wonderfull vertues daily experience doth shew as well in curing as pre∣uenting, as hath bin proued in the time of the pestilence.