The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

To prepare and correct Sene.

2 R. Of the best Sene lib. i. cleanse it from the stalkes and naughty leaves, and to every ounce of Sene adde of fennell seed or Aniseed ʒ. i. and powder them, first your seeds, and when they are well beaten, then adde your Sene, and beat them all well together, and searse them in a covered searce; that which will not passe beat againe, and searse it till all be finely searsed: this is used in Pilles, Electuaries, Powders, &c. and is never used otherwise then with his Correctives.

When you powder Myrrhe, or Saffron, they must be done by themselves, by dropping a drop or two of Oyle Olive into the bottome of the Mortar, that it may not sticke: the same way you shall powder Rubarb, Aloes; or Assa foetida, and also Scamonie; but Mastich must be powdered by dropping a little Rosewater into your Mortar. Before you beat Camphire you must grinde ii. or iii. sweet Almonds in your Mortar; the like in beating Cinamon.

Oyles are boiled enough, when if you throw a drop in the fire, it burneth cleare, and without cracking.

Plaisters are boiled enough, when if you put a drop into faire water, it runneth not abroad, but riseth whole to the top of the Vessell: those Plaisters that have Oile in them, when you make them up wet your hands in faire water, or white wine; those that have none, wet your hands in Oyle.