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 ...

Tinctura Stiptica, or the Stiptick Tincture.

Take the yolks of twenty one Eggs boiled hard, Con∣serve of the roots of great Comfry, flowers of wild Poppy, of each four ounces; of the thorny pricks of Fishes, of Nutmegs, Gum Arabick, of each two ounces; the heads of Poppy with the seeds, flower of red Archangel, juyce of Acacia (or instead of it juyce of Sloes) of each an ounce. Mix them, and let them infuse 24 hours in six pints of red Stiptick Wine, then add of our Aqua Hypnotica ten ounces, and distil all in Balneo.

Then take of this distilled liquor four pints, Dragons blood moistned with spirit of Vitriol as much as doth suffice to give it a red tincture, then filter it, and the red Tincture edulcorate with Syrup of the Juyce of wild Poppy-flowers, and reserve it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is very profitable, and of great power and force in all Fluxes of the Belly, as Dysenteries, Diarrhoea's, Lienteries, Tenesmus, &c. The Dose is four ounces.