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 ...

A discourse upon a Composition that preserveth a man or woman in health a long time.

IF thou wilt make a paste that shall have vertue to preserve whole bodies, and to help the sick, it were necessary to look out simples that have vertue to doe it, and when thou hast found out those drugs that have vertue to preserve, thou mayest put thy trust in them: which I discoursing by the way of reason, and conferring it by experience, have found out a number of drugs that are friends unto our nature, and pre∣serveth it, of the which I will shew thee some that are of great importance, which may be proved by reason and experience, and are these.

℞. Aloes hepatica, Olibanum, Mirrha, ana. ℥. ii. Beat them into fine powder, and make them into a paste like a salve with rectified Aqua vitae, then dry it in the Sun, then beat it into powder again, and make it into a paste with our Oleo del Bal∣samo, and then thou shalt have a past of most marvellous ver∣tue, for if yee take thereof every morming ʒ. i. it will pre∣serve him long in health, it is most excellent for those that be wounded, or have any sore upon them, because it keepeth the sore from putrefaction, as by the ingredient thou mayest perceive.