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 ...

Extractum Polychrestum, or an Extract good for many things.

Take Aloe rosata, leaves of Sena, of each four oun∣ces; Hermodactyls, white and gummy Turbith, Ialap, of each three ounces; black Hellebore, Mechoacan, Tro∣ches Alhandal, Gum of Peru, red Myrrh, the best Ma∣stich, Ammoniacum, Sagapen, Opopanax, Sarcocol, of each an ounce and a half; Troches of Agarick, dwarff Elder-berries dryed, the best Rhubarb, of each an ounce; Myrobalans Indian and yellow, Polypody of the Oak, Dodder, Cummin seeds, flowers of Arabick, Stoechas, of each half an ounce; true Castor, Indian Spike, Cloves, of each two drams. These being mixed, draw a Tin∣cture according to art in the best Spirit of Wine, of which make an Extract of a just consistence for our Pills, called Pilulae Polychrestae.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is called Polychrestum, be∣cause it is profitable in many distempers of the body, and purgeth all humors. The Dose is from half a dram to a dram by it self, or mixed with other Pills: it is quickned with our Scammony rosated.