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 Polychrestus Imperialis, or an Imperial Powder good for many things.

Take white Sugar Candy six ounces, Crocus Martis prepared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce and an half, seeds of Fenil, shavings of Ivory, the Ankle-bone of a Hare, Pikes eyes, Cardamoms the less, white Gin∣ger, Nutmegs, roots of Liquorish, of each an ounce; Cinamon, Cubebs, Cassia lignea, Spicknard, roots and seeds of Peony, Misleto of the Oak, acid Tartar, of each an ounce and a half; Magistery of the Carp-stone, of Crabs eyes, of the Pearch-stone, Oriental Saffron, seeds of Parsly and Smallage, true Castor, Cloves, red Myrrh, wood of Aloes, Hysop, Oyl of Aniseeds, each two drams; Magistery of Pearls and red Coral, the best Mace, of

each a dram; leaves of Hungarian Gold forty three. Mix them, and make them all into a fine Powder.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It expels wind, flatulencies, and all peccant humors from the Stomach and Inte∣stines, and also comforts those parts; it preserves from putrefaction, and roborates the Brain; it in∣creaseth Memory, and is excellent in the Epilepsie, in the trembling and debility of the Heart, difficulty and straitness of the Breast, Cough, Asthma, &c. It sweetens grief, exhilarates sorrow, removes timidi∣ty, and opens all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen. It cures the Tympany coming of a cold cause, and many other long and confirmed diseases. It stops the running of the Piles, purifies the blood, procures a fresh colour; it warms a frigid Matrix, and amends a corrupt intemperature of the Womb; it purgeth the Reins and Bladder of stones, sand, &c. It opens the Urinary passage, and gives ease in the Strangu∣ry. The dose every morning is the quantity of a Chestnut, either by it self, or in some Liquor respect∣ing the disease.