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 ...

Aqua Benedicta Serpilli, or Aqua Benedicta of Mother of Thyme.

Take Mother of Thyme with its flowers, and gather it in the morning before Sun-rising, the Moon decreasing, eight ounces, Roman Chamomil two ounces, Savory and Thyme, of each an ounce. Put them into eight pound of the best Rhenish Wine, and let them infuse cer∣tain days, and distil them, and in the distilled Li∣quor again infuse Mother of Thyme with its flowers eight ounces, Cassia lignea an ounce, wood of Aloes and Mace, of each half an ounce. Cut them small, and after due digestion, distil them again in an Alem∣bick in Balneo, and so it is truly prepared.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It stops all Catarrhs and De∣fluxions, and preserves the Head from them. It ro∣borates the Brain, Stomach, and all the Intestines being vitiated with Cold. It stirs an Appetite, pro∣vokes Urine, expels the Stone, mitigates the pains of the Belly, but chiefly the Colick. It dissipates wind from the Bowels and Hypochonders. It allays Pains and Hiccup, stays Vomiting, provokes Wo∣mens Courses, brings forth the Birth, After-birth, and dead Child. It dissolves concreted Blood. It is a good Remedy for those oppressed with a Com∣pression of the Lungs, difficulty of Breathing, or any Rupture in those parts. The dose is from half an ounce to two.