An exact collection of the choicest and more rare experiments and secrets in physick and chyrurgery (both cymick and Galenick) viz. of Leonard Phioravant, Knight and doctour in physick and chyrurgery, his Rational secrets and chyrurgery &c. : whereunto is annexed Paracelsus's One hundred and fourteen experiments : with certain excellent works of G.B. áa ortu Aquitano ; also Isaac Holandus, his secrets concerning his vegetal and animal work : with Quercetanus his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot : also certain collections out of some manuscripts of Dr. Edwards and other physitians of note ...

CHAP. XVII. Our Magno liquore, the which is of great vertue.

THis is of my invention, and the order to make it, is thus Take sweet Sallet oile twentie pound, white wine two pound, boil them together untill the wine be consumed, then

put it in a vessell of stone, and put thereunto these things following:

Take the flours of Rosemary three pound, Lignum aloes, ℥. vi. Olibanum, Bdellium, ana. ℥. x. then stop it very close, and bury it in the ground four foot deep, and this would be buried in the beginning of August, and there rema••n untill the moneth of March, then take it forth of the ground, and set it in the Sun, and put thereto these matters following, Sage, Rosemary, Rue, Beto∣nie, Millefolie, Comferie roots, Tamaro, Viticella ana, one hand∣ful: Galingal, Cloves, Nutmegs, Spikenard, Saffron, ana ℥. i. Sarco∣colla, Sanguis Draconis in grain, Mastick, ana ℥. ii. Aloes Epatica, Frankincense, ana ℥. viii. yellow Wax, Auxungia ana ℥. xviii. Co∣lophonie one pound, Hypericon with the seed and all two pound. Musk ʒ. i. mix these all well together, and boil them in Bal∣neo, untill the herbs become dry, and have no more sub∣stance, then take it forth, and strain it, and put thereunto for every pound, ʒ. vi. of our Balm artificiall, and when the moneth of September cometh, put thereunto two pound of the fruit of the herb called Balsamina, the which are red, and then it is ended, the which thou shalt keep in a glasse close shut, for the older it is, the better it is, and is of such vertue, that it helpeth the Etici, and Hidropsie, if ye give them eve∣ry morning ʒ. ss. with ℥. i. of Sirrup of Roses warm, the space of fortie daies, as I have proved: And this is the true and perfect Unction, that helpeth Petecchie, a disease so called in the Italian: If any were wounded, and had cut veins, sinews, and bones, let him joyn the parts close together, and dresse it with this Oyle very hot upon the upper parts, and in short time it shall be whole, without any alteration. It helpeth al∣so the white Scall if ye annoint it therewith: It helpeth cold∣nesse in the head, and Catarrs, if ye annoint it within the no∣strils at night when ye go to bed: If yee annoint the Sto∣mack therewith it causeth perfect digestion of the meat, it provoketh Urine where it is let through carnositie or Gonor∣rea, or such like matter; It causeth hair to grow, it preserveth the beard black, and it is good against Worms, and all these Experiments are true, and proved of me divers and sun∣dry times, in the aforesaid infirmities, and also in divers

others, the which I leave untill another time: Yee shall note, that if yee annoint any all over that is greived with the Pox with this Oil, it will increase his pain, and so by that meanes yee may know whether he be infected or no.