Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...

Pulvis Refectivus, or a Refective Powder.

Take white Sugar Candy concrete in Syrup of Violets an ounce, Lac Sulphuris half an ounce, compound flowers of Sulphur, Confectio Alkermes, of each two drams; Ma∣gistery of Pearls, red Coral, and Saturn, of each a dram. Mix them, and make of all a fine Powder.

Virtue, Use and Dose. It repairs strength, comforts the Heart, and Nature it self; it nourishes and fat∣tens; it drys up the Rheum in the Head, roborates the Brain, allays the Cough, cures the Asthma, Con∣sumption and wasting. The Dose is a scruple in wa∣ter of Calves Lungs, or Aqua Caponis, or any other

Specifick, or so much of the Powder is mixed with any thing as will tinge the Vehiculum white: and of this mixt Liquor the Dose is morning and evening one or two spoonfuls.