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 ...

Sal Epilepticum, or an Epileptick Salt.

Take roots of Palma Christi two pound, roots of An∣gelica, Peony and Pellitory of the wall, of each a pound; seeds of Peony, shavings of Cyprus wood, Misleto of the Oak, of each half a pound; Cinquefoil, Millefoil, Rue, Mullein, Lavender, Rosemary, Henbane, of each four ounces; flower of Primrose, Stoechas, Teil-tree, Peony, and Elder, of each two ounces. Being mixed, let them be calcined in a Reverberatory, and then add the ashes of young Magpies and Swallows, and Peacocks dung, of each an ounce. And with an appropriate Liquor, according to Art, make a white crystalline Salt.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is effectual in all Epile∣psies, Vertigo, Lethargies, and other stupefying Dis∣eases; 'tis also given to those who fear or are trou∣bled with dangerous diseases of the Head. The dose is from ten to twenty or thirty grains in Teil-tree flower-water, or in our Epileptick water.