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 ...

Emplastrum Diaphoreticum, or a Diaphoretick Plaster.

Take yellow Wax eleven ounces, Colophony and Bdel∣lium, of each four ounces; yellow Amber three ounces, Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar and white Turpen∣tine, of each two ounces; Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar, Sandarack, of each an ounce; Mastich and Frankin∣cense, of each half an ounce. Mix them, and make a Plaster according to Art.

Virtue and Use. It consumes, discusseth and draws out Flegm, as by the use of it may appear, certain drops of water standing upon the Skin and Plaster when it is pulled off: Hence it is good in the Sciatica, swellings of the Feet, Kings-evil swellings, and Tu∣mors of the Glandules, where we are not willing to bring them to Suppuration. It takes away pain and the Scorbutick hardness of the Legs, and is of good use in fractured Bones, pains of the Joynts, Luxations, Falls and Contusions; for it consumes the humidity of humors that falls upon the part. Other ingenious and successful Practitioners use this following, which is of great virtue also, which use is the same with this: Take yellow Wax sixteen ounces, Bdellium pul∣verized five ounces, Colophony and Ship Pitch, of each four ounces; yellow Amber three ounces, Gum Ammo∣niack two ounces. Mix them, and make a Plaster, which make soft with Oyl of Eggs.