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 ...

The third particular called Laudanum Anodinum, the which is most excellent of all other secrets in asswaging griefs and paines in divers diseases.

TAke Liquoris aquae inexpertis & inspissati ℥. ii. and put there∣to the spirit of wine, and set it in Balneo to digest, untill it

have drawn away the Tincture: then pour it forth into a clean vessell, and put on more, and so set it to digest againe, so long as it will give any Tincture or colour. Then take the gumme of Henbane dried in the sunne ℥. i. and draw away his tinct∣ure with the spirit of wine, as thou diddest out of the liquor aforesaid, then take Di••mber, ℥. ii. and likewise draw away his Tincture with the spirit of wine, and keep it very close un∣till such time as I shall shew thee: then take Momia, ℥. ss. and draw away his tincture with the spirit of wine, and when thou hast done, mix it with the other, then take Crocus Orientalis, three drachms, and draw forth his tincture, and mix it with the rest, and every day stir it, and keep it in a warm place close stopped fifteen daies; that being done, distill it in Balneo, and there will remaine a little matter in the bottome, then put thereto a little of the Tincture of Diambrae, the which ye re∣served afore, and so let it stand in digestion untill it be thick, stirring it three or four times a day, untill the smell of the li∣quor be in a manner consumed, the which will be in six weeks. Then take these that follow, the liquor of Corrall, clear Amber, or Succinum, of each ʒ. i. Ʋnicornes-horn, six graines, Ma∣gisterium Perlarum, one scruple, Ossis de corde Cervi, half a scruple, Aurum Potabile, or his Tincture, half a drachm. All these being finely beaten and mixed in a stone or glasse mor∣ter, with the spirit of Diamber, put in with the residue being thick, and so stirring it sundrie daies afterward, distill all the spirit of wine away, then put thereon the residue of the spirit of Diambrae, and when it is almost dry, put thereto Olei Succini, Olei Maci & Cinamoni, of each about one scruple. Then take one part, and reserve it for women without musk, for it hurteth them. But to the other part, for men, put in half a scruple of the extraction of Musk, made with the spirit of wine, and set it in a warm place that it may dry, and so keep it to thy use. Ye may give it in form of Pills, or dissolve it in some conve∣nient liquor, the Dose, three graines, or six graines for those that are of strong nature. It comforteth much against the Collick, the Frensie, hot Fevers, Arthritide, Podagra, the weak∣nesse of the stomack, the Yex, and comforteth against vomit∣ing, provoketh sleep. Against the falling sicknesse, ye shall

give three graines with the spirit of Vitrioll and Essentia Cam∣phora that is drawn with oyle of sweet Almonds, the which is made in this order.