A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.

A very Efficacious Remedy against the Epi∣lepsie, or Falling-Sickness, wherewith Sir Kenelm Digby Cured a Ministers Son, named Mr. Lichtenstein, at Francfort in Germany, in the Year 1659. to which I was an Eye-Witness.

TAke of the Skull of a Man that died of a violent Death, of the parings of nails of Man, ana ʒij. Reduce this to a subtil Powder, and grind it upon a Marble stone; then take Polypody of the Oak very dry, ʒij. Misletoe of the Oak, gathered in the Wain of the Moon, ℥ss. Misletoe of the Hasle-tree, Misltoe of the Tile-tree, of each ʒij. Piony-root ℥ss. Reduce all into a sub∣til Powder: Then take ℥vj. of Sugar, boyl it to the consistence of Rose-Sugar; then mix all the Powders with it, and stir them well together over the fire that they may well incorporate together: Then take it from the fire, and make it up into little Tablets of about a Dram apiece; whereof give one in the Morning fasting, and two or three hours after Dinner, and another two hours after Supper: Continue this whilst the Tablets ••ast.