The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

To make Oyl of Hypericon.

Take of the best Oyle Olive three pound, of the best Turpentine three pound, white Frankinsence half a pound, Wheat sweet and clean picked, Hiperico and Saint Johns wort, of each halfe a pound, Valerian four ounces, Carduus Benedictus four ounces, of White Wine

or Sack a quart, take the Herbs and cut them small, then put them into a tinned pot that hath as narrow a mouth as may be, then powre in the Wine, and let them stand in sleep six hours, then powre in your Oyl, and stop up your pot very close that no aire can get forth, set the same on a soft fire of coales without smoak or flame, let it boil very softly, stirring it now and then with a wooden slice, and having stirred it, stop it up a∣gain, and so let it boil till the Wine be consumed, which you shall know in this manner, by dropping the Oyl into the hot coales, the which Wine being not consumed, will hisse in dropping on the coals, and being consumed it will not hisse but burn very clear. And so the Wine being consumed, take it from the fire, and straine the liquor through a thick canvass cloth: then make clean your pot, and put the liquor (that ran through the canvass) therein, and set it on the fire again, then put in your Tur∣pentine and Frankinsence, the Frankin∣sence must be beaten and searsed, and let them boil very softly, stirring it with your slice the space of a quarter of an hour, then take it from the fire, and

strain it through another strainer. This Oyle must be put into a Glasse bottle, and the mouth stopt very close.