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 ...

Claretum Chalybeatum, or a Claret prepared with Steel.

Take the best Malmsey Wine three pound, Steel pre∣pared with Vinegar of Tamarinds an ounce, roots of Scor∣zonera and cream of Tartar, of each half an ounce; the lesser Galangal, Cassia lignea and Cloves, of each a dram. Put these mixed into a glass Vessel, and let them di∣gest in a warm place, often shaking them for the space of two days; afterward strain them, and cla∣rifie them through Hippocrates sleeve, and you have a chalybeate Claret.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It opens all the obstructions of the Liver, Spleen and Meseraick Veins. It cor∣rects an ill habit of Body, and expels all vicious Hu∣mors, cures the black Jaundice, provokes the Terms, and stays them if too superfluous. It expels water in Dropsies, and discusseth Wind: it promotes the reso∣lution of the Salt tending to Coagulation, and by its Martial rays it drys the Microcosmical Earth swel∣ling with too much moisture. But in the use of this Liquor for the aforesaid Affects, it is convenient to give gentle Purgers as often as may be, that as this Wine prepares the body and humors fit to be pur∣ged, so the purging Medicines cleanse and carry it off, as in other Cures. The dose of this Claret is from one ounce to two or three morning and eve∣ning:

But in defect of the Courses in Women, it is given five days before the New Moon to young ones; but to those more in years, so many days before the Full Moon, and so to proceed till the Courses appear.