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 ...

SECT. XX. Of mixed Liquors. (Book 20)

Nectar Vitrioli, or Nectar of Vitriol.

TAke white Sugar candy ten ounces, Spirit of Vi∣triol rectified two ounces. Mix them, and in a glass Vessel close covered keep out the flies and filth: let them stand for some months, till it all appear black like Pitch; then take of this black matter four ounces, Rose-water an ounce and a half, wa∣ter Mint-water half a pound, Cinamon water buglossated six pound, Syrup of the juyce of Citrons four ounces, Ma∣nus Christi simple two ounces. Mix them, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is commended in all in∣temperature of the Stomach as well cold as hot: For it refresheth the languid and decayed strength there∣of. It provokes Appetite, prevents Putrefaction. It is good in malignant Feavers, and allays Thirst. The dose by it self is from two ounces to three.

Liquor Vitriolatus, or a Vitriolated Liquor.

Take Syrup of Violets and Roses, of each half a pound; juyce of Citrons or Lemmons four ounces. Mix them diligently, and being mixed, add water of Endive ten ounces, water of Sorrel and Roses, of each eight ounces; of water-Lily and Scabious, of each six ounces; of Cina∣mon water buglossated two ounces, Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make all tart and grateful. Again mix them, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is of a curious cooling quality in the Plague, Hungarian disease, burning Feavers, and all other Inflammations. It also allays Thirst, &c. The dose is from two ounces to three.

Liquor Ophthalmicus subalbidus, or a whitish Water for the Eyes.

Take our Ophthalmick water of Crabs half an ounce, water of Eyebright and Fenil, of each two drams; our Ophthalmick Troches and Powder, of each a scruple. Mix them, and make according to Art a whitish Colly∣rium.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is of great virtue in the dimness and dulness of Sight, and in Suffusions of the Eyes; and it may be dropped into the Eyes without any pain, it being void of all acrimony whatsoever, and with it the Eyes may be washed every morning, and so continue it for many days together.

Liquor Nitratus, or a Nitrified Liquor.

Take water distilled from the juyce of Carduus bene∣dictus nineteen ounces, Rob of Goosberries four ounces,

simple Manus Christi two ounces, Nitre prepared an ounce. Mix them well, and keep them for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is a most admirable Dia∣phoretick, Diuretick, Bezoartick, Refrigerative, &c. and is good in all hot and malignant Diseases what∣soever. The dose is by it self from one ounce to two or three.

Liquor Cephalicus, or a Cephalick Liquor.

Take of our Aqua Apoplectica four ounces, Aqua Epileptica and Lily of the valley, of each three ounces; water of Marjoram, Betony and Sage, of each an ounce and a half; Rotula's of Diambra an ounce, Confectio Smaragdina half an ounce, Salt of white Amber a scruple. Mix them faithfully, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is of good use in all disea∣ses of the Head, and gives present help in the Ce∣phalalgia, Hemicrania, Epilepsie, Apoplexy, Mad∣ness, Vertigo, &c. It quickens the Senses, sharpens the Understanding, and recovers a lost Memory. The dose is from one spoonful to two.

Liquor Pectoralis, or a Pectoral Liquor.

Take Cinamon water buglossated and Capon water, of each four ounces; water of Calves lungs, Ground-Ivy, Fluellin and Coltsfoot, of each three ounces; milk of Sul∣phur three drams, flower of Sulphur a dram and a half, Magistery of red Coral and Oriental Pearls, of each half a dram. Mix all, and with Manus Christi simple three ounces edulcorate it, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is of admirable use to all those who are troubled with the Asthma, Pleurisie, Phthisick and Hectick. It comforts the Heart, and to admiration it takes away the grievous and dange∣rous Coughs, and restores the Patient to his former health. The dose morning, noon and night is from

one spoonful to two: But before this Liquor is given, it ought to be well shaken.

Liquor Cordialis, or a Cordial Liquor.

Take of our hot and cold Cordial waters, of each four ounces; of Cinamon water buglossated and water of a Stags heart, of each an ounce; Confectio Alkermes two drams, Salt of Oriental Pearls and red Coral, of each a scruple. All being mixed, let it be edulcorated with an ounce and a half of simple Manus Christi, and reserved for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is good for the Heart∣burning and pains of the Heart caused by sorrow. It cures Palpitation, Trembling and Swooning. It ani∣mates the Spirits, exhilarates the Mind, refresheth those who are weak and languid. It comforts the Heart in general, and preserves it from the Plague, and many other evils. The dose is from one spoon∣ful to two.

Liquor acidus Perlarum Orientalium, or an acid Liquor of Oriental Pearls.

Take Vinegar of the solution of Oriental Pearls, and again drawn off in Balneo two ounces, Spirit of Vitriol duly rectified with Spirit of Wine. Mix them, and you shall have a whitish liquor of wonderful operation, which keep as a Treasure for your use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It strengthens the Head, Brain, Stomach, Heart, Liver, and all the other prin∣cipal Members. It preserves the body from the Apo∣plexy, Epilepsie, Vertigo, Leprosie, Pox, &c. It raiseth an appetite in recovering Patients. It clean∣seth the Eyes of clouds and dimness, resists Putrefa∣ction and Poyson, and is the last refuge in all ma∣lignant Feavers and hot Diseases. The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram.

Liquor acidus Corallorum rubeorum, or an acid Liquor of red Coral.

After the preceding manner is this acid Liquor of Coral prepared for the affects of the Head, as Epi∣lepsie, Melancholy, also the Dysentery, Flux of the Womb, &c. and to rectifie the Stomach and Blood. It is also a good Medicine to root out many internal Diseases, and to refresh the Spirits and Mind. The dose is from half a scruple to half a dram.

Liquor Nephriticus, or a Liquor for the Stone and Urine.

Take Citron water distilled by it self in Balneo, our Nephritical water, of each a pound and a half; Syrup of the juyce of Violets a pound, white Sugar candy an ounce, Salt of Perch stone and Crabs eyes, of each two drams; Nitre prepared with flower of Sulphur, salt of white Amber, of each a dram. Mix them, and keep them for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is very effectual in break∣ing and expelling the Stone both in the Reins and Bladder. It provokes Urine, and takes away the pain which happens in those parts. The dose is in the morning fasting, or at a good distance from eat∣ing, from one spoonful to three.

Liquor Diaphoreticus.

Take of our Treacle water six ounces, Spirit of Tar∣tar often rectified three ounces, Spirit of sealed Earth di∣stilled by it self and rectified, Spirit of Guajacum recti∣fied, the acid liquor of Oriental Pearls, the acid liquor of red Coral, of each half an ounce. Mix them, and in a Glass close shut let them digest for three or four weeks, then filter it, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It expels all Poyson from the Heart by Sweat. It is good in Syncopes, sudden Fits, Epilepsie, Melancholy, Quinsie, Palsie, Dropsie,

Jaundice, Pleurisie, Pox, Plague, Epidemical disease, Asthma, malignant and putrid Feavers, retention of the Courses, Contractures, Scurvy, Scabs or Itch: For this Medicine doth excel all others in taking away all Obstructions and Putrefactions. And if it be given daily in the Palsie, it doth wonders. It pe∣netrates the Nerves, Muscles, Marrow, and whatso∣ever it finds hurtful it expels. The dose is from half a dram to two drams in our Harts-horn water, or Carduus water, or any other Vehicle respecting the Disease.

Liquor refrigerans, or a cooling Liquor.

Take water of the juyce of Succory four ounces, water of Rasberries, Carduus, Roses, Endive and Sorrel, of each four ounces; Rob of Goosberries and Barberries prepared without Sugar, syrup of the juyce of Citrons, of each three ounces; Nitre prepared eleven scruples. Mix them.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It cools and comforts admi∣rably in Feavers and all acute hot Diseases. The dose is from two ounces to three at a time.

Liquor Vulnerarius, or a Wound-Liquor.

Take roots of the lesser Galangal, Zedoary, Crabs eyes and Mace, of each half an ounce; Foreign Mummy two drams, of Nux vomica fifteen grains. Let them be grolly bruised, and infused in a pound of good generous Wine, let them stand in a warm place.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. The dose of this Mixture is morning and evening a spoonful, and if any thing remains fixed in the bottom of the body, it removes it; but in wounds of the Head let the Nux vomica be omitted.

Liquor Camphoratus.

Take spirit of Wine camphorated two ounces, water of all the flowers and Frogs spawn, of each an ounce and a half; the Anodyne Sulphur of Vitriol a dram, liquid

Styrax, Thebane Opium, spirit of Vitriol, of each half a dram. Mix them, and keep them for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. Let it be applied to the part affected; for it allays the pain of the Gout; and all pains proceeding of a hot Cause. Or it may be given twice in the day with two scruples of prepared Ni∣tre in Elder-flower water.

Liquor Tartareus, or a Tartarized Liquor.

Take of the best Rhenish Wine a pound, Tartar vi∣triolated an ounce. Let them be mixed and dissolved according to Art, and then add Barley water with Raisons, boiled Cinamon water and syrup of the juyce of Violets, of each half a pound. Mix them for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is an universal Digestive, and is given in many Diseases, where purging Medi∣cines are requisite. It is given warm, unless in an intense Feaver, or a hot intemperature of the Sto∣mach be present. It is given for a Feaver in the morning; but if the Fit happen in the morning, it is to be given in the evening. In Chronical diseases it is continued for five days, and may be given twice in a day, that is, morning and noon: But in diseases of the Head it is given at going to bed, and the Belly ought to be loose; for if the Belly is bound, pain doth usually succeed, because the matter that is mo∣ved and cleansed away by the Medicine, if it cannot pass out of the body, it is converted into wind, and that causeth pain. The dose is, when occasion re∣quires, a good draught at a time.

Liquor Arthriticus, or a Liquor for the Gout.

Take Virgin Honey with the comb two pound, Vitriol calcined to a yellowness a pound, River Flints calcined half a pound, Rosemary and Vervain, of each six oun∣ces; white Hermodactyls three ounces, Gum Ammonia∣cum, Mastich, Olibanum, red Myrrh, Bdellium, Opo∣panax,

of each two ounces; yellow Sulphur, Sea-salt, white Tartar, of each an ounce and a half; juyce of Henbane made thick, Foreign Mummy, Thebane Opium, of each an ounce. All being mixed, pour upon them the Spirit made of the Faeces of red Wine, or else of that Spirit which is left in making Laudanum Opia∣tum, five pound, or so much as will suffice, and let them digest for certain days: then put all into a glass Alembick well luted, with a head sufficiently large, and a large Receiver, and distil them so long as you can see any Spirit come forth. When all is cold, take the Caput mortuum, and pulverize it, and pour the distilled Liquor upon it the second time and distil it: And repeat this labour three or four times, and so you have the Liquor Arthriticus prepared.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is a Secret in all continual and inveterate pains, and defluxions on the Members and Joynts: Let the part affected be anointed with it often in the day warmed, and at certain intervals of time also, till all the tormenting pains cease.

Liquor Antipodagricus triunus, or an Antipo∣dagrick Liquor of a threefold Preparation.

1. Take of spirit of Wine well rectified two pound, Frog spawn water a pound and a half, of Virgin Honey a pound. Mix them, and distil it in Balneo, and the Liquor drawn off keep by it self; then take the Caput mortuum and pulverize it, and then add to it Lixi∣vium made of Vine twigs two pound, white Tartar half a pound, flegm of Vitriol not yet separated from the spirit four ounces, true Castor six drams, Oriental Saffron half an ounce, Venice Turpentine two drams, calcined Salt a dram. Let them macerate for the space of 24 hours, then distil it, and keep the distilled Liquor by it self, then take out the Caput mortuum, and pulverize it,

and pour upon it all the Liquor before drawn off in the first distillation. Mix them, and after due dige∣stion distil them again the third time: Lastly, the Li∣quors being mixed, rectifie them in Balneo Mariae, and let it be called, A Compound Water of Frog-spawn.

2. Take Cloves six drams, white Hermodactyls and Iu∣niper-berries, of each half an ounce; Nutmegs two drams, Vervain and Elder flowers, of each two handfuls; flow∣ers of Lavender, Spicknard, Marjoram, Rosemary and Betony, of each a handful. Cut those that are to be cut, and bruise the other, and infuse them in five pound of Rhenish Wine: Let them stand in digestion 24 nights and days, and then distilled in an Alembick, and called Aqua Arthritica, or the Gout-water.

3. Take Alum two pound, white Vitriol and Verdigriese, of each half a pound; white Tartar, Litharge, Cuttle∣bone and Ceruss, of each four ounces. Let all be most finely powdered and then mixed, set it upon the fire, and let it fume, so that the Verdigriese may evapo∣rate, and then call it Lapi•• Admirabilis, or the won∣derful Stone.

4. Now follows the Composition.

Take of the Compound water of Frog spawn four pound, of the Aqua Arthritica a pound, of the Lapis admira∣bilis three drams, clear and white Nitre two drams, Ori∣ental Saffron ten grains. Mix them, and let them stand in infusion a whole night, and afterward filter the Liquor, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. In this Liquor (which Chy∣mists and Practitioners in Physick use at this time with good success) wet linen Cloaths, and frequent∣ly apply these warm to the part affected, or at least

three or four times a day, and this continue till all the intolerable tormenting pains cease and utterly vanish: For it is a singular and an incomparable Me∣dicine in all Gouty pains, and is well experienced in repelling the violence of the adventitious Humor, and it is called Triunus from the three several Prepara∣tions in the Composition.

Liquor Vestimentalis, or a Liquor for Cloaths.

Take Fountain water two pound, ashes of Hearts-ease the quantity of a great Walnut, one Citron cut into small pieces. Mix them, and let them stand in digestion twenty four hours, then filter it, and keep the clear liquor for use.

Virtue and Use. It takes away the filth, all greasie and pitchy Spots, as well from Hats as Cloaths, either in Silk, Woollen, or Linen. And the Spots being taken out, and the place clean, it is to be rinsed im∣mediately with fair water.

Liquor Mercurii vivi.

Take crude Mercury and Aqua fortis, of each an ounce. Dissolve the Mercury in the Aqua fortis, and to the solution add Plantane water two pound, Lapis medicamentosus made with Rose-water. Mix all, and keep it for use.

Virtue and Use. This whitish Mercurial water is to be applied to all the external parts and diseases thereof: It drys up all old Ulcers and Wounds, and skinneth them over, but especially the old sordid Aphrodisia. It takes away all Morphew, Spots, Scurff and Pimples of the Face. It is also a good Remedy in drying Erysipelas's, and healing Fistula's: But in applying it take heed, lest you touch the Eyes or Teeth therewith.

Liquor Cerussae, or a Liquor of white Lead.

Take the best white Lead an ounce, of Pompholix half

an ounce, of Lapis Calaminaris and Litharge, of each two drams; Tutty prepared and Spodium, of each a dram. Let all be finely pulverized and mixed, and then pour upon them water of Housleek, Plantane and red Roses, of each three ounces. Again mix them, and keep them for use.

Virtue and Use. It is used externally, and cools and drys any part infested with a Tumor, Redness, or In∣flammation. It allays pain, cures blood-shot Eyes. It takes away the yellow spots of the Face and Body, and renders a mans Countenance clear and vivid. The use of it consists in often using divers day to∣gether.

Liquor Tutiae, or a Liquor of Tutty.

Take Tutty prepared, Litharge and Ceruss, of each half an ounce; Camphire a dram, crude Alum half a dram. Let all be diligently mixed, and then add water of Plantane and Roses, of each four ounces. Again mix them, and keep it for use.

Virtue and Use. It cools and drys the external parts of the Body infested with Tumors and Inflammations.

Liquor Mercurii Saccharatus, or a Liquor of Mercury with Sugar.

Take water of Plantane and Roses, of each four oun∣ces; Ceruss an ounce, sublimate Mercury, white Sugar Candy, and the best Spirit of Wine, of each half an ounce. Mix them, and then add to it a scruple of Aqua fortis.

Virtue and Use. It cures all contumacious Ring∣worms, Tetters, and such like disease of the Skin. But before it is used, let it be shaken, and the part effected touched with a Feather or such like thing.

Liquor Mercurii Acetosus, or a sour Liquor of Mercury.

Take white Vitriol and Camphire, of each half an

ounce; sublimate Mercury, Ceruss, white Tartar and burnt Alum, of each two drams; white Pompholix half a dram. Mix all and make a Powder. Take of this powder half an ounce, the best Wine Vinegar four ounces. Mix these, and keep it for use.

Virtue and Use. We use it in the same manner as before, to cleanse the Skin. It perfectly cures all Ring-worms, Tetters, and such like.