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 ...

Tincture of Sulphur.

EXtract flowers of Sulphur with Spirit of Turpen∣tine in the usual manner; which being done, let the Spirit evaporate by degrees till the rest is dry; then take out the dr••ed matter, and pulverize

it, and with Spirit of Wine rectified extract a Tin∣cture from it; and when it will give no more Tin∣cture, add all the tinged Spirit together, and put to it the same quantity of our Pectoral water, and set them for some days in a warm place, that they may digest: afterward draw off the Spirit of Wine in B. M. with a gentle fire, and so the Tincture of Sulphur will remain in the Pectoral water. This take off by inclination to the quantity of half, evaporate the rest till it be like Oyl, what remains filter through a Paper, and keep it for use.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. This Tincture doth not only free the Breast from all thick humors that ob∣struct the Organs of Respiration, and cause the Cough, and shortness of breathing; but it cleanseth the Thorax, Lungs and neighbouring parts of all pu∣trid and imposthumous Tumors, and hastens their Cure, and gives freedom and ease in breathing. It succours, drys, and roborates a cold Brain in such as are falling into a Consumption. It also allays the pains of the Colick, and resists Putrefaction. It is likewise given with great success in the Plague pro∣ceeding from a moist Cause, but especially to the Common people, who by feeding upon gross and bad food, fill their blood with moist crude humors, and therefore more proper for this kind of infection, than to the others. The ordinary Dose is from five, six or seven to ten drops in a proper Vehicle.