Natura exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man. / Collected and preserved by several persons of quality and great experience in the art of medicine, whose names are prefixed to the book. Containing in the whole, one thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their owne health, or that of their friends. VVhereunto are annexed, many rare, hitherto un-imparted inventions, for gentlemen, ladies and others, in the recreations of their different imployments. With an exact alphabetical table referring to the several diseases, and their proper cures.

Chymicall Extractions.

TAke L seven times rectified, and put it in a pelican, and let it Circulate forty dayes, and this is his burning water or quintessence or Heaven, and hath a smell so odoriferous that it being open in any Roome, all that passe by will be forced to come in, if this smell be wanting when you open it, put it in a bolts head well stopped with wax, and bury it in Horse dung with the bottom upwards, some part being bare to the Ayre, and having stood so many dayes, take it out, and with a small warm wyer bore a hole in the wax, and let out all the feces, but when the spirit quintessence comes, stop it suddenly with your finger, and ••urne it up.

The quintessence of all manner of Herbs, flowers, roots, flesh, blood, or Eggs is thus done, take any of these things, and bray them in a Morter, or on a grinding stone, with fifteen times as much common salt, then put them being stopped in horse dung (which must be renewed once a week) for the space of fortie dayes, by which time they will be pu∣trified, and become water, then put it in a glass Still, and draw off as much as will come, then put that which came o∣ver and the feces together again, and bruise them on astone, distill, and grind it often, then take the water and Circu∣late it in a Pellican, as before. To seperate all the foure Elements out of any of these things, put the putrified wa∣ter into a Glass Still, and in Baln. M. draw of as much as will come which is the element of water poure back that water, and set all together againe in Baln. M. to Circulate the space of eight dayes, then set your Vessell in ashes or sand fornace with a head, and recever well luted, in a stronger fire then before, and a yeallow water will rise which is water, and ayre, put those again in Baln. M. and

the water only will rise, so you have them seperated, then to every pound of matter remaining in the bottom of the Glass put four pound of water, and set it as before to digest in Bal. Ma. eight daies, then set them in a sand fornace, and give a strong fire, and there will ascend a red water which is fire, and water, separate them as before the water and ayre so you have all the foure Elements asunder, Calcine the earth, and rectifie the other Elements as you did for the quintessence.

Aurum Potabile.

MAk an Amalgama of Sol and Mercury, vapour away the Mercury, then take that Sol being in fine pouder, and heat it upon a Plate of Iron till it be red hot, and quench it in L but be sure to stop the Vessel suddenly, that too much of the L burne not away do this fiftie times till the L be tincted yellow.

Another way.

TAke your Aurum in powder as before, cast the pouder in∣to distilled Vineger or Vrine, set it in the hot Sun, and you shall see it rise in a thin Filme or Skin, take that off with a feather, and put it in a Glass where water is, do this as often as any will rise, vapour away the water and the oile will remaine.

The quintessence of Quick-silver.

TAke sublimate, and disolve it in Aqua sortis, distill of the water, and then the quintessence of Quick-silver will follow, rising white as Snow, put back the Corasive water upon the feces left behind, untill all be come over.

The quintessence of Brimstone.

TAke pouder of Brimston, and put it in old Urine, set it upon a soft Fire, till the Vrine be coloured, then poure of that, and

put on fresh Vrine, till you have all the tincture, vapour away the Vrine, then put your tincture in a broad vessell with distild Vinegar upon a soft Fire, and skim of the fatness of the Brimston if any rise.

A burning peircing Water.

TAke Quicksilver sublimate with vitrioll, and comon salt then take Sal Armoniack often times sublimated equall parts grind them well together, and set them to resolve in a Cellar this wa∣ter will peirce through a mans hand, or a Plate of Iron or Cop∣per, and hath strange vertues if it could be repaired.

The quintessence of Antimony.

TAke Antimony in fine pouder, and put it in vinegar distilled till it be red, pour of that distilled Vinegar and put on more, till it will receive no more colour, put all your coloured distil∣led Vinegar in a Glass Still, and give fire under it, and when the fleame is come, you shall have a red Oyle ascend in threds which you must save to your use.

The white water or Maids milk of Mercury or Quick-silver.

TAke sublimate or the quintessence of it, and put it in a large Glasse well sealed, and set eight daies in an Athanoure then take it out, and grind it very small, then hang it in Baln, M. let it vapour till the matter be resolved, then put it in a Still, and Maids milk will rise.

To make a diphoretick of Antimony and Sol that work∣eth in dose, foure, five, six, or seven graines.

TAke Antimony and Mercury sublimate equall parts, and draw them in a Retort as you know, and rectifie the oile that you get five times as you know, then make the Aqua sortis, and make it Aqua Regis in a large Glass, into which put in your re∣ctified oile, and then let them stand in a gentle Balneo untill it be dissolved perfectly, then dissolve sixty grains of pure Sol in

another part of your Aqua Regis, and being dissolvd perfectly, pour you dissolved Sol upon your dissolved Oyle of Antimony, drop after drop soft and fair, for fear you spill all, and all being put therin, lute theron a head and Receiver very close, and put it into ashes for two daies, with so easie a fire as you can keep, then remove it into sand and draw off your Menster by degrees, untill at the last the bottom of the glass be as red as you can make it, then cease the fire and let it cool, and then cut away that part of it in the bottom which is not sublimed, and gather it clean, and put it into a Crusible, and give it fire until the cru∣sible and matter therin be as red as any coal, then take it out of the fire, and keep it safe, for it is ready for your use.

To a dram six grains of Diagredium,

To make the Diaphorettick of Antimony, Mercury, Sr. Walter Rawleighs way.

TAke ♁ Cruda, and grind it very smal, two pound Anti∣moni sublimitate, grind it well and fine, and then mix them wel together, and grind them well together, and then put them into the flattest bottom Bason you can get, and put it in a cold Cellar, where they must stand until they come in the form of very Liquid pap, then take it and put it into smal bottles not a quarter ful, and put a head theron, and receiver therto wel luted, and draw of the moisture so long as any com∣eth, in sand, and then increa••e the fire so long, untll that the Antimony be all sublimed, and in the like sort you must do until you have gathered all your Antimony from the ♁ then recti∣fie all the waters you have gathered therfrom, and keep the last part therof by it self, for to put upon your Antimony to work it up, the which must be very often reiterated upon the Anti∣mony, and drawn off again, and at the last sublime up all your Antimony from the bottom which gather, and grind very smal, and mix with it so much of that Antimony that hath been four or five times sublimed and quickned at the least, and sublime them together, and then in two or three times subliming, you shall separate the Crude Antimony therfrom, and then sublime it by it self, so long til it leave no feces in the bottom, alwayes putting away the upper part of the sublimation, for in that work it wil not serve the turn, and then have you finished a very great labour, but you have gotten a good Medicine, and

before you begin, though the words be few, yet it is a very toil∣som labour.

To make the Purge of Tartar, what quantity you will, two pound or more.

TAke the best white Tartar, and pound it very smal, and put it into a well glased Pipkin, and boyl it strongly, and skim it continually until there ariseth no skim, then have a good many of broad, and flat milk pans, into which you must pour your boyled Tartar, being clean skimmed as aforesaid, and let them cool, and in the cooling there wil arise a cream upon the top, which take off with a Lanthorn-horn, and within half an hour after you may skim it again, and again, as oft as any cream ariseth, if the water consume put in more cold water, and then put it on upon the fire, and boyl it again, and pour it again in∣to the milk-pans, and skim it as before as oft as any cream ari∣eth, and so boyl it, and skim it in like manner so long as a∣ny cream ariseth, then wash it if you will have it pure, with two or three waters, or else dry it and grind it smal.

Chymicall Characters.

• 24 Grains one penny waight.
• 20 Grains a Scruple.
• 3 Scruples a Dram.
• 60 Grains a Dram.
• 8 Drams an Ounce.
• ♄ Saturn, Lead.
• ♀ Venus, Copper.
• ☿ Mercury, quicksilv.
• {antimony} Antimony.
• {arsenic} Arcenick.
• {alum} Allum.
• {vinegar} Vinegar.
• {vinegar distilled} Vinegar distilld.
• {aqua fortis} Aqua fortis.
• {aqua regis} Aqua Regis.
• {wax} Wax.
• {potash} Pot-ashes.
• {oil} Oyle.
• {purify} To purifie.
• {nitre} Salt Peter.
• {salt} Salt.
• {sal armoniac} Salarmoniake.
• {tartar} Tartar.
• {blood} Blood.
• {fire} Fyre.
• {air} Ayre.
• {water} Water.
• {earth} Earth.
• {day} Day.
• {night} Night.

Luting.

TAke pouder of Bricks searsed, of Smiths sinders, of sand, of each eight ounces, pouder of Glass searsed one pound and a halfe, of Potters earth four pound, of Flocks four ounces, beat all these well on a board with an Iron wand, and arme your Vessell.

To draw Chymicall Oyles by the Lymbeck.

ALL vegetables which are Aromatick in scent, and hot in Tast, yield Chymicall Oiles, and no other, whether they be leaves, flowers, fruits, hearbs, bark, seeds, rinds, or roots.

Seeds, flowers, and leaves, need no bruising.

Barks, fruits, and roots must be grosse bruised, not fine least they sticke to the bottom, and burn in the Stil.

To every pound weight of any vegetable put foure pound of com∣mon water, the heavier the water the better.

Let the water, and the vegetable be distilled assoon as you can with∣out macetation.

Let your fire be as great as may be so it run not over, nor come out whole.

The quantity that your Stil contains is four pound of any spice, seed, &c. and of hearbs, as many as it will hold.

When a a third part of the water is distilled, the most part of the Oile is come, then take off that Receiver, and put into the body of the Still as much water as you drew out, and distill it into another Re∣ceiver:

Every thing must be distilled untill the water that cometh forth have no sent, nor tast of the said vegetable.

Seperate all Oiles that swim, presently assoon as you take the recei∣ver away, but let those that sink stand in some cool place two or three daies as Cynamon, Mace, Cloves, Sassafras.

The water which is the vehiculum of the Oile yeildeth not forth his Oile, till it be exuberate with Oyle, therefore keep every water by it selfe to serve the next time for then it will yeild a greater quantity of Oile.

For a Cancer, a Tettar, a Wart, or a great bunch on the face.

TAke a pint of the best white wine-vinegar, the roots of Salen∣dine, a Manuple, of red Sage leaves a pugil, of burnt Alome a spoonful, of blew Vitriol a spoonful and half, boyl all being stopped together til half be consumed, strain and squeeze them hard through a linnen cloath, save it for your use in a glass stopped while it is hot, into which put half a spoonful of the flow∣er of Brimstone in a little lawn bagg, so as it may hang in the middle of the glass, about which the Vitreol wil shoot, and hang when you use it warm it, and drop a little upon the soar, and rub not the soar though it smart a little.

For a Fistula.

THe root of our Ladies Candle, the old lead of a window cut from the soder, Hogs grease, beat all in a Morter til it be perfectly incorporate, make a tent for the soar of one of the roots, and annoint it with this Oyntment, and put it into it, and lay a Plaister of the same Oyntment upon it.

For a Burn.

TAke Semper vive, Plantane leaves, and the green ryne of Elder, of each a like quantity, and boyl them in Sallet Oyle, so much as will draw out all that Tetter by boyling, then strain the Oyle well out, and put it on the fire again, and put to it a smal quantity of {vinegar distilled} of Wine, and so much yellow wax as will bring it to the consistence of a Lineament.

To sweeten Amber.

PUt it in a Sand Stil in a low body with a great head wel luted, and stil it gently of, and the stinking part, which wil be one half wil come off first▪, which you must set by, and unlute the head, letting it drop into a•• unluted Receiver, and so as you find it sweeten change the Receiver, letting it continue so til the Balmson within be hard enough to make a Plaister, which

you may try by lifting of the head, and taking some of it ou•• with a long spoon, and cooling it in the aire.

A Laudanum.

TAke Opium Thebaise, cut it in thin slices, and dry it gently in an Oven upon glass Plates, til you may crumble it be∣tween your fingers: Take the Tr▪ of this with L of {vinegar distilled} filter it and vapour it to the consistence of honey, to an ounce of which Tr. take as much of ••he Tr. of Saffron, of the Tr. of Species of Amber one dram, Magisterial of Pearl, and Corral, of each one scruple, the Tr. of Gold one dr••m, mix them, and vapour them in Bolarmoniack to the consistence of a Pill, the doss is from one grain to four.

TAke a part of ☉ and a dram of ☽ unto which add 12: parts of Mercury mixing them well together secundum artem, then put them in a bolts head, and give it a reasonable strong heat in a Fornace, so it will rise up like shrubs of trees, then break the glass, and take out those things, adding the fourth part of that weight of more Mercury mixing it wel together, and put it in∣to a bolts-head, and giving it fire as before: And when it is come up, it will fall all down unto powder by little and little, and it will fix into a colour between red and brown, and the more it is fixed the higher colour it wil take. Take three grains of this in bread, keep your bed with your armes on your sto∣mach, in four hours you may rise.

A Purge of Antimony that works without Vomit, by Dr. Jordain.

TAke an ounce of yellow Stibium poudered, melt it in a Cru∣sible, then put upon it while it is in infusion a spoonful of wel refined Salt petre, and burn it off, do so four times, then grind it upon a stone and it wil be a white pouder, to which you must put as much oyle, an ounce of Vitriol, or Sulphur as wil cover it, and vapour it away in a Sand Fornace, til the pouder be perfectly dry, the dose is from four to seven grains; if you use oyle of Sulphur or Vitriol to it, I hold it best to wash it af∣terwards once or twice.

A Recept to make Vinegar.

Mr. Sawer.

FIrst take a quantity of the best sweet wort, that may be had so much or as little as you will, according to the proportion you mind to make, let it cool, then work it in a guyld▪ fat as you work your Ale, then tun it into your vessell, and let it spourg when it hath spourged, then put in a quantity of Bay Berries beaten in pouder after the rate of one ounce to a firkin, and stir it well together, then it will spurge again, when it leaves spur∣ging, than draw it out at the Tap, every three or four dayes, the space of a Moneth, then put into your Vessell of Helder flow∣ers a good quantity, you may put in of Red Rosc leaves of Vio∣lets or of Barberies. But I take it the best waye is to let it stand till it be fyned, and then draw it into Bottles of Glass, and put into it, either redd Rose leaves or Violets, and so make Rose or Violet Vinegar as you please, so you may have it white, and if you like to have it redd, you may put in Barberies Hel∣derberies, Senaper knopps turnfall or such like:

Also if you will you may determine at the first, how much you will have Violet o•• Rose Vinegar, white or red as you like, and put it in severall vessells.

A Receipt to make Raison Wine.

TAke twelve pound of Maligo Raisons, pick the stalks of them, put them into a Vessell that hath a spiggot neare the bottom, and let them stand at the least eight and fortie hours, (being often stirred) having at least three Gallons of good wa∣ter put in with them, then draw it off into a Rundlet or other Vessell, that you mean to work it in and set it in some corner, where you may keep a constant heat to it, and let it continue till it will work no more, which will be at least two daies, then draw it out into Bottles, and fill them to the neck, and be sure to stop them close, and set into a cool Cellar, you may when you fill the Bottles, put in three or six more or lesse of Cloves, or a Bag of Tiffene or Sar••••ne•• filled with Coriander seeds which will give it a very good tast, also when you have drawn of your first Liquor from your Raisons, put on halfe so much water as at the first, and use it as the former.

To draw Oyle of Tartar and Turpentine.

TAke a pound of Calcined Tartar and a pound of ordinary Turpentine put them into a Retort and lute the Retort to the receivor, then set it in a pan of Ashes upon a furnace and keep it some eight hours with a small fire that it may digest, then make a strong fire some eight houres longer, in which time it will be all drawne.