Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

A water called the mother of the bawme.

Take Tu••pen••ine six pounds, olibanum two ounce, Aloes citrine, cub••bs, Mastick, Cloves, galingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs of everich one ounce, gum of the fig-••ree and of the juice, of each three ounces, then make the drugs in powder and put all into a Limbeck of glas••, w••ich you must joyn to the capitel with hot flower ashes and whites of eggs, so that no breath come out, and let it still with a slow fire, ••nd the first water will be white and clear, the second like hony and the third like bawm, which you shal receive into three receptories. These be of vertue as they be in order, they will burn in fire and a drop will turn a vessel of milk as Bawm it self will, two drops thereof powred into the ears will take away the great noise that some have in their head••, likewise in the eyes will heal all watrie and red eyes and other diseases of the face, it c••reth any im∣postume, green wounds and ulcers, scabs and all other superfluous humours and the tooth∣ach, ye any fis••ula or canker in nine dayes, also the no••i me tangerea, the small pox if you wash the places therewith, it is good for all old hurts and for dry blowes of staves or stones, It heal••th, strengtheneth, and all other things, re∣ctifieth the ••i••ewes, it is so hot and penetrative that it will run through your head without grief to you, It healeth all pain•• of the Leggs and joints, with all other diseases that come of cold and it is as precious as bawm it self.