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 ...

Pearls Trochiscated.

TAke white Salt of the Oriental Pearls, and free from all its acetosity, what quantity you please, dissolve it in water made of May-dew gathered from the standing Wheat, or in some Cordial liquor: to this solution add by drops of Spirit of Vitriol recti∣fied as much as shall seem requisite for precipitation, and a white Powder will precipitate to the bottom, which (the flegm being removed) edulcorate and dry it according to art, and you have the true Magistery of Pearls. Then take of this Magistery an ounce, the true Oyl of Roses, and Oyl of Cinamon, of each a scruple. Mix them, and with Tragacanth dissolved in equal parts of Rose-water and Cinamon-water, let little Troches be made according to art, which lay by for use, and reserve it like a Treasure.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is a most excellent Com∣fortative in all affects of the Heart, as Pain, Sorrow, Trembling, Pulsation, Palpitation, defects of the Mind, &c. Also in pains of the Head, Vertigo, Epi∣lepsie, Apoplexy, Palsie, Contractures, resolution of the Nerves, Convulsion, Phrensie, Melancholy, Mad∣ness,

Gout, and Gouty pains in the Joynts, Con∣sumption, Blasting, the numbness and decay by Age, Stone, Dropsie, Scurvy, French Pox, and Feavers, &c. It purifies the Blood; it comforts all the Sen∣ses, Brain, Memory, and Heart, and preserves the whole body sound. It fortifies Nature within, also the Child in the Womb; it roborates the Spirits, re∣pairs the strength, and increaseth the humane Seed: it amends Milk in Women, takes away the spots of the Eyes, and consumes Catarrhs, &c. And these Troches of Pearls thus made by our ordination have been highly approved by many Great and Noble men, and by them esteemed as a great Secret, and equal in effect to the Aurum Potabile. The Dose, according to the nature of the infirm, and the Judgment of the Physician, is from six grains to eight in appropriate Vehicles.