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 ...

Balsamum Puerorum dentientium, or a Balsam for Children breeding Teeth.

Take May Butter not salted three ounces, sat of a Hen and a Duck, of each two drams; flowers of wild Poppies a dram. Boil them in Juyce of living Crabs bruised and with water of Blue-bottles and Extract of roots of Marsh-mallows, of each two ounces. Let them boil to the consumption of the Juyces; then being prest, add white Sugar Candy four ounces, Gallia Moschata vera a scruple, the Yolk of one Egg. Mix them, and make a Balsam according to Art.

Virtue and Use. Infants in breeding their Teeth, are often in danger of their life, because of the hard∣ness of the Gums, by reason of the great pain that

attends it; but the use of this Balsam doth so rarifie and mollifie the Gums, that it removes all fear of danger, and makes them breed their Teeth easily, if the Gums be frequently anointed therewith.