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 ...

Decoctum Arthriticum, or a Decoction for the Gout.

Take small Raisons eight ounces, shavings of Guaja∣cum eight ounces, roots of China an ounce, roots of Li∣quorish and water-Acorus, of each half an ounce; Ci∣namon and the lesser Galangal, of each a dram. Let them be cut and bruised, and then infused 24 hours in ten pound of Barley-water; afterward boil them over a gentle fire to the consumption of the third part, and make a clear Potion according to Art.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. I use this happily in all Ca∣tarrhs and running Gouts, proceeding from a destil∣lation

of cold Humors, especially where the sick is very dry, I also ordinarily give it in ill Habits and Dropsies for their common drink; for it roborates and drys the body of all its superfluity. The Patient cannot well erre in the dose, but let him drink at his pleasure.