Doron medicum, or, A supplement to the new London dispensatory in III books : containing a supplement I. to the materia medica, II. to the internal compound medicaments, III. to the external compound medicaments : compleated with the art of compounding medicines ... / by William Salmon ...

CHAP. XXIII. Examples in Compounding Catharticks and Sudori∣ficks, Diureticks and Ischureticks.

Examples in Compounding Catharticks.

I. Such as are Gentle.

1. ℞ RHubarb thin sliced, ℥ ss: yellow San∣ders ʒ ss: Salt of Tartar ℈j: infuse all night in Whitewine ℥ iii: Cichory. water q. s. strain, and to ℥ iij thereof add Syrup of Succory and Rhu∣barb ℥ ss: Cinnamon water ʒ ij: mix for a Potion.

2. ℞ Infusion of Rhubarb in Whitewine ℥ij: Syrup of Buckthorn ℥ ss: mix for a Dose.

3. ℞ Purging Line M.j: Sweet sennel Seeds ʒ ij: Spring water, q.s. boil to ℥ vj: strain, and add Whitewine ℥ ij: give it for a Dose.

4. ℞ Damask Roses ℥ j: clarified Whey, q.s. White∣wine ℥iij: boil to ℥vj: strain, then add Syrup of Roses pur∣ging ℥ j, and give it.

5. ℞ Peach Leaves or Flowers, M. ss: Roots of A∣grimony ℥jss: Spring-water q. s. Whitewine ℥ iij or jv: boil to ℥ viij: strain, sweeten with purging Syrup of Roses, ℥ j, and give it.

6. ℞ Pillul. Stomachicae with Gums ℈j: or ʒ ss: Tar∣tar Vitriolate gr. ij or iij: Balsam of Peru or Tolu, q.s. make 3 or 4. Pills.

7. ℞ Pill. Ruffi, gr. xxv. Tartar Vitriolate gr. iij: Scammony gr. ij. mix for a Dose.

8. ℞ Pill. do Succino ʒ ss: Salt of Wormwood gr. vi: Re∣sin of Jallap, gr. ii: mix them.

9. ℞ Pouder of Scammo∣ny gr. xv. Mercurius dulcis gr. x. mix in a fine Pouder.

10. ℞ Rhubarb in pouder ʒ ss: Salt of Wormwood ℈ ss: Cloves in pouder gr.iij: mix and give it in a spoonful of Cinnamon water, or in

a draught of broth.

11. ℞ Sena in pouder ℈j: Calomelanos gr. xvij: yel∣low Sanders ℈ss: Scammony gr. ij: make a pouder to be given in a little panada.

12. ℞ Mechoacan in pou∣der ʒ ss: Ginger ℈j: Scam∣mony gr. ij: make a pouder for a Dose.

13. ℞ Sena in pouder, Rhubarb, A. gr. xvj. Cloves in pouder gr. vij: mix them.

14. ℞ Electuary lenitive ℥ ss: Creamor Tartari ʒ ss: Syrup of Roses q.s. make a Bolus.

15. ℞ new drawn Cassia ℥ss: Rhubarb in pouder ℈j Sena, Cloves gr. x. Tartar vitriolate gr. vj: Scammony gr. ij: Syrup of Roses, q.s. mix and make an Electuary.

II. Such as are moderate, or strong.

16. ℞ Mechoacan, Gummy Turbeth in pouder, A. ℥ss: Diagredium, Cremor Tar∣tari, A. ʒij: Resin of Jallap, Red Sanders, A. ʒi: Con∣serve of Violets ℥j: Sugar dissolv'd in Rose-water and boyl'd to a fit Consistency lb j ss: make Tablets of ʒj: Dose j or ij of them, as you see occasion. Silvius.

17. ℞ Sena ℥ij: Turbith, Mechoacan, Rhubarb, ana ℥j strings of black Hellebor ʒj: Cloves, Nutmegs, Cinnamon bruised, ana, ʒij: Salt of Tartar ʒ j ss: Rhenish wine lb jv or v: digest 10 dayes in a cool place, in a great mouth'd Glass close covered: then dissolve in it Sugar-Candy or fine Sugar ℥ iij or ℥ iv: after strain it, and keep it for use: Dose ℥ iij, or more.

18. ℞ Sena ℥ v: Polypo∣dy fresh, sharp pointed dock, A. ℥ ij: Turbith, Mechoa∣can, A. ℥ j ss: Rhubarb sli∣ced ℥j: Epithymum, yellow Sanders, Coriander seeds, Juniper-berries, A. ℥ j ss: slice and bruise what are to be sliced and bruised: put them into a bag with a stone in it, and work them up with 16 quarts of Ale. Dose from half a pint to a pint, every or every other Morning.

19. ℞ Sena ʒ iij: Rhu∣barb, Troches of Agarick, A. ʒ j ss: Coriander seeds ʒ j: yellow Sanders ℈ ij:

Salt of Tarta ʒ ss: Spring∣water, white Wine, A. ℥ vj: infuse warm, and close co∣vered all night: strain and sweeten with purging Syrup of Apples ℥j, adding Myro∣balan water ʒ ij.

20. ℞ Cassia new draw••, Tamarinds, A. ℥ ss: Co••••∣ander seeds ʒ ij: Spring∣water ℥ x: boil to the con∣sumption of a third part: strain, and sweeten with Sy∣rup of Succory with Rhubarb ℥ j.

21. ℞ Pil. stomachicae with Gums ʒ ss: Resin of Jallap, Scammony, A. gr. v. Tartar Vitriolate, gr. vj: Gum Ammoniacum dissolv'd q.s. make iiij pills.

22. ℞ Quercetan's Pills of Tartar ʒ ss: Resin of Jallap gr. viij: Tartar vitriolate gr. vj: Balsam of Peru, q.s. mix and make iiij pills for one dose.

23. ℞ Pil. de Succino, Tartarae Quercetani, A. ℈j. Scammony gr. x. or xij: Tar∣tar vitriolate, gr. vj: Balsam of Tolu, q. s. mix, and make Pills.

24. ℞ Jallap in fine pou∣der ʒ ij; Scammony ʒ i: Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, A. ℈ j: with Ammoniacum dis∣solved, make a mass of Pills. Dose ʒ ss.

25. ℞ The pouder of Dia∣sena ʒ j: Cremor Tartar ℈j: mix and give it with a Draught of broth.

26. ℞ Resin of Jallap ℈ss: Calomelano's ℈j: Cloves, gr. vj: mix, and give it as the former.

27. ℞ Our Royal pouder ℈ ss: Scammony gr. xiij: Tartar Vitriolate gr. vj: Re∣sin of Jallap, gr. ij: pouder of Cloves, gr. viij: mix them.

28. ℞ of the Species Dia∣turbith à ʒ ss ad ʒj: Tartar Vitriolate, à gr. vj ad xij: mix them.

29. ℞ Jallap in fine pou∣der à ʒ ss ad ʒj: Ginger ℈j: Cloves gr. iij: mix: give it in a Glass of White-wine.

30. ℞ Jallap, Mechoacan A. ℈ j: Cremor Tartari gr. xv. Cloves, gr. viij: mix.

31. ℞ Mechoacan, Sena A. ʒ ss: Tartar vitriolate, Cloves, A. gr. viij: mix 'em.

32. ℞ Jallap, Mechoacan Sena, A. ℈ j: Cremor Tar∣tari gr. xxjv: Ginger ℈ ss: Gloves, gr. v. mix, and make a fine pouder.

33. ℞ Jallap, Mechoacan A. ℈ j: Cambogia gr. xiv: Scammony, gr. iij: Cloves gr. viij: mix them.

34. ℞ Elect. Lenitivum, ℥ ss: Cream of Tartar ʒss Resin of Jallap gr. vj: Syrup of Roses q.s. mix, and make a Bolus.

35. ℞ Elect. Diaphaenicon ℥ ss: Hermodacts ʒ ss: Sy∣rup of Roses, q. s. mix and make a Bolus.

36. ℞ Jallap in fine pou∣der ℥ j: Mechoacan, Cre∣mor Tartar, A. ℥ ss: Scam∣mony ʒj: Ginger ʒ ij: Cloves, Salt of Wormwood, A. ʒj: Syrup of Roses solutive, q.s. mix, and make an Electuary. Dose the Quantity of a Wal∣nut.

III. Catharticks which are stronger.

37. ℞ Decoct. Senae Gere∣onis (with Addition of strings of black Hellebor, Agarick, A. ʒ j ss:) ℥ vj: Water of Myrobalans ʒ ii: Syrup of Roses solutive, or of Peach∣flowers ℥ j: mix them.

38. ℞ of the best Sena ℥ ss: strings of black Hellebor, Gummy Turbith, A. ʒ ij: Coriander seeds ʒ i ss: wood of Aloes ʒ j: Salt of Tartar, Mechoacan, A. ʒ ss: White wine ℥ viij: infuse, close and warm all night: strain out; and to the clear add Cinna∣mon water ʒ ij: Elect. of the juyce of Roses, ʒ iij: Syrup of Buckthorn ʒ vj: mix and make a Potion.

39. ℞ Tincture of Colo∣cynthis ℥ j; Tincture of Cloves ʒ j ss: mix them.

40. ℞ Pil. Rudij ʒ ss: Resin of Jallap, gr. viij, x, or xij: Strasburgh Turpentine, q. s. mix and make Pills.

41. ℞ Pil. Cochiae min. gr. xxv. Mercurius dulcis ℈ i: mix them and make 4 Pills.

42. ℞ Pil. ex duobus ℈ j and ʒ ss: Mercurius dul∣cis ℈ j: Resin of Jallap, gr. iij: mix them.

43. ℞ Pil. de Sagapaeno ℈ j: Cremor Tartari gr. xvj; Resin of Jallap, gr. vij: mix them.

44. ℞ Turbith, Hermo∣dacts, A. ʒ iij: Scammony ʒ j: Cloves ℈ ss: mix. Dose à ʒ ss and ʒ i.

45. ℞ Pulvis Cornachinij

vulgar ℈ ij: Cambogia, Gin∣ger, A. gr. xvj: mix them.

46. ℞ Pulvis Cornachi∣nij vulgar ℈ij: Resin of Jal∣lap, gr. vj: Cloves, gr. viij: mix them.

47. ℞ Pouder of Hermo∣dacts compound, ʒ ss: Resin of Jalap, Cremor Tartari, A. gr. vj: mix.

48. ℞ Electuary of the Juyce of Roses ℥ ss: Resin of Jallap, gr. x: Cremor Tar∣tari, ʒ ss: Syrup of Roses so∣lutive, q.s. mix, and make a Bolus.

49. ℞ of our Family Pills, ℈ j: choice Turbeth, Cremor Tartari, A. gr. xvj: Balsam of Peru, q.s. mix, and make a dose of Pills.

50. ℞ of our Family Pills, of our Pil. Agregativae, A. à gr. xvj ad ℈ j: Balsam of Peru, q. s. mix, and make pills.

51. ℞ of our Family Pills, of our Agregative Pills, of Pil. Rudij, A. ℈ss, mix them.

After the manner of these Examples, you may make a thousand other Prescri∣ptions.

EXAMPLES in Compounding Sudorificks.

I. Such as are proper Anticatharticks.

52. ℞ Elect. de Ovo, Ve∣nice Treacle, A. ʒ ss: Lau∣danum gr. i, or ij: mix them.

53. ℞ Venice Treale ʒ j: Confectio Anodyna nostra, gr. vj: Dissolve in a glass of Claret Wine burnt with mint, and so drink it.

54. ℞ Barly-water aro∣matiz'd with Cinnamon, Mint-water, A. ℥ iv: A∣qua Epidemica, Aqua The∣riacalis, strong Cinnamon-water, A. ℥ iij: Magisteries of Coral and Pearl, A. ʒ j: Sy∣rup of Corn-Poppy flowers ℥j: mix and make a Julep.

55. ℞ of the former Ju∣lep, Aqua Epidemica A. ℥ij: Liquid Laudanum of Hel∣mont ℈j: mix them.

56. ℞ of our liquid Lau∣danum, gut. x. Oriental Be∣zoar, gr. x. Diascordium ʒ j: mix them.

57. ℞ Spirit of Mithridate or of Venice Treacle drawn with Sal Armoniack ℈ j: of the Julep above at Sect. 54. ℥ iij: mix them, and give

it every 3d, 4th, or 5th hour.

58. ℞ Pouder of Crabs claws compound, of Contra yerva, of Virginian snake root, of Oriental Bezoar, of Bezoar mineral, of Bezo∣ar animale, of Cinnamon, of Galangal, of Zedoary, of Tormentil roots, of Coche∣nel, of Saffron, A. ℈ j: mix and make a fine pouder. Dose à ʒ ss: and ℈ ij in the for∣mer Julep, or in Cinnamon water: mixt with Syrup of Clovegilliflowers.

59. ℞ Venice Treacle ʒ j: Spirit of Harts horn ℈j: Lau∣danum gr.j: mix them.

60. ℞ Electuarium de Ovo ʒ ss: Spirit of Soot, gut. x. Laudanum opiatum, gr. ij: mix them.

61. ℞ Ale or Wine lb ii: Mace, Nutmegs, Cinnamon A. ʒ ss: Cloves ℈ ss: boil them with a crust of Bread: strain out, and sweeten with Syrup of wild Poppyes ℥ j: give it as ordinary drink.

62. ℞ Venice Treacle ʒj of our Liquid Laudanum, gut. xv. or xx. mix them.

63. ℞ Venice Treacle, conserve of Red Roses vitrio∣lated A. ʒ j: Contra yerva, Virginian snake-root, Tor∣mentil roots, Alkanet roots, Pearl, Coral, all in fine pou∣der, A. gr. vij: and with Sy∣rup of Corn-poppy flowers, q.s. make an Electuary: drin∣king after it about ℥ iij of the Julep at sect: 54. above: and let it be taken every 4th or 5 h hour.

64. ℞ Cochenele, ʒ j: Contra-yerva, Virginian-snake-root, A. ʒ ss: Saffron gr. x. mix them. The dose ʒ ss: in any fit Vehicle, as Mint, Lettice, or Poppy-wa∣ter sweetned.

65. ℞ Red Roses, Scor∣zonera A. ℥ i: Tormentil, Bi∣stort: Contrayerva, A. ʒ iij Harts-horn burnt, Cochenele A. ʒ ijss: shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory A. ʒ ij: Saf∣fron ʒss: Spring-water lb iij boil all to lb ij: towards the end of the boyling add Con∣serve of red Roses ℥ jv: Ba∣laustians ʒ i ss: then strain out the clear, and add Trea∣cle Water, Aqua Epidemica A: ℥ ij: dose twice or thrice a day ℥ iij.

66. ℞ strong Mutton broth boiled almost to a Jelly ℥ xij; Oyl of Hypericon ℥ iij: Mi∣thridate

℥ ss: mix them for a Clyster.

67. ℞ Diascordium ℥ j: Cowslip and Cinnamon wa∣ter A. ℥ i ss: mix them, 'tis a good thing.

68 ℞ Cinnamon-water ℥j: Poppy-water ℥ j ss: Lauda∣num Cydoniatum gut xx. or more: mix them for a dose.

69 ℞ fine Bole (impreg∣nated with Juyces of the leaves of Tormentil, Bistort and red Roses, and dryed in the Sun:) Contrayerva, roots of Tormentil, A. ʒ j: Pearls, red Coral, whitest Amber, A. ʒ ss: make all into subtil pouder: Dose ʒ ss to ʒ i: in a fit Vehicle.

70. ℞ Red Roses dryed, tops of Cyprus, Myrtle, A. M. iv. leaves of Hypericon, Meadow sweet, Burnet, Pim∣pernel, A. M. iij. Roots of Tormentil, Bistort, Cinna∣mon, Nutmegs, Mace, A. ℥j: Berries or grains of Kermes ℥ iv: slice and bruise all to∣gether, upon which affuse red Florence Wine, red Rose∣water A. lbjv℥iij: distil in an ordinary still to driness: and sweeten the distilled Liquor with Syrup of Coral: dose ℥ iij or iiij.

71. ℞ of the Water just now described ℥ ss: of our gutt•••• vitae, gut xx. mix them.

72. An excellent purge in this case: ℞ Rhubarb ••••ic'd ʒij: yellow Myrobalans ʒjss; yellow Sanders ʒ ss: pouder of Cinnamon ℈j: Salt of Wormwood ℈ss: Plantane water; and Cinnamon barly water, A. ℥ ij ss: infuse all night: strain and add thereto strong Cinnamon water ʒ ij ad ʒ iij: give it for a dose: it purges, binds, and strength∣ens the bowels.

II. Sudorificks or Hydroticks simple, consisting of the whole Concrete.

73. First, simple Concretes, of a Volatile sharp or bitter Salt, Scordium, Carduus, Scablous Alexiterian, Mari∣golds, Camomil, Butterbur, Zedoary, Galangal, Guaja∣cum, Box, &c. To these may be added some compound

Confects of like Nature, as Mitridate, Venice-Treacle, Electuarium de Ovo, Dia∣scordium, &c. These being taken, awaken the Animal Spirits, by which the Praecor∣dia being more lively actu∣ated, the Circulation of the Blood is perform'd the more swiftly. They also go in and ferment the Blood in the sto∣machical Vessels, so that whilst it circulates quicker back towards the heart; it is at the same time more vehe∣mently circulated forwards, through the arteries into the habit of the Body, whence comes sweating.

74. Secondly, Simple Concreies of an Alchalisate and as it were fixed Salt. O∣riental Bezoar, Peals, Coral, Crabs-eys and Crabs-claws, Terra figillata, Harts-horn, Ivory, Oyster-shells, stony, bony, earthy and shelly Sub∣stances, &c. These by their alchizate Salt, sometimes meeting with an acid Salt, both in the Viscera, and also in the Blood, and ferment∣ing together, or growing hot, cause the sanguinious Mass to be fused, and its serosities to be separated and resolved into sweat. Of both these kinds of Sudorificks you may see a cloud in our Synop. Me∣dicinae, lib. 3. cap. 33. sect. 21. § 6.10.12.13. & 14. of the last Edition.

III. Sudorificks or Hydroticks, which have for their Basis the Integral parts of the Matter, in which a sharp Vo∣latile Salt is most potent.

75. ℞ Carduus M.j:boil in a sufficient quantity of Pos∣set drink ad ℥ viij: which give either alone, or with some other D••aphoretic pou∣der or confect.

76. ℞ of the former De∣coction ℥ jv: Mithridate ʒjss: mix them for a draught.

77. ℞ Camomil flowers M j: Scordium M ss: Spring-water, q. s. boil to ℥ viij: strain out, and add Venice Treacle ʒj: Treacle-water ℥ ss.

78. ℞ Roots of butter-but ℥ j: Seeds of the same ʒ ij: Elecampane root ʒ jv: Ca∣momil-flowers

ʒ iij: Spring water lb j: boil to ℥ viij: strain, and dissolve therein Venice Treacle ʒ ss.

79. ℞ Decoct. Sudorific. Emperici Germani, ℥vi: Mi∣thridate ʒ j: mix them.

80. ℞ Decoct. adversus Epilepsiam ℥ jv: Elect. de Ovo ʒ ss: Viper pouder ℈j mix them.

81. ℞ Decoct. Ligni Gua∣jaci Mynsichti ℥vj: Alexi∣pharmick pouder of Barbet, ʒ j ss: mix them and give it early in the morning.

82. ℞ of the sweating In∣fusion (in our Pharm. lib. 4. cap. 16. sect. 5) ℥ ij: Ve∣nice Treacle ʒ ss: Elect. de Ovo ℈ j: mix for a dose.

83. ℞ a strong Decoction of Carduus ℥ vj: of Treacle Vinegar ℥ ij: mix them.

84. ℞ a strong Decoction of Camomil-flowers ℥ vj: Acctum Pestilentiale ℥ j ss: Venice treacle ℈ ij: mix them and give it.

85. ℞ Mynsichts Acetum Mithridaticum ℥ j ss: solar Bezoar ℈j: mix for a Dose.

86. ℞ the Bezoartick Vi∣negar of Sala, ℥ j ss: Mithri∣date ʒ ss: Viper-pouder ℈j mix them.

87. ℞ Mynsichts Acetum Rhizoticum ℥ i ss: Extract of Carduus gr. xxv. mix them.

88. ℞ Mynsichts Acetum Theriacale ℥ j ss: Diascor∣dium ʒ j ss: Mithridate ℈j: mix them.

89. ℞ S.V. lb iij: Con∣tra-yerva lbj: bruise, and put all into a Matrass: digest till the Tincture is drawn forth: then strain and ab∣stract in B.M. to the thick∣ness of new Honey: the ab∣stracted spirit keep by it self: upon the residue put more fresh spirit, and lastly extract the Tincture. Dose à ʒ ss, ad ʒ j: in a sit Vehicle.

90. ℞ strong Carduns or Camomil posset drink ℥ vi; Mithridate ℥ ij ss: Conserve of Wood-sorrel ʒ j ss: mix them.

91. ℞ Scordium or Ca∣momil. posset drink ℥ vj: Ve∣nice Treacle ʒj: Salt of Wormwood ℈i: mix them.

92. ℞ Decoction of But∣ter-bur roots, or of Virgini∣an Snake-root, ℥ vj: Electu∣arium ad Tabidos ʒ j, or more: mix them.

93. ℞ a strong decoction

of Sope-wort, or of Raspings of Box wood ℥ vi, Viper∣pouder ʒi: mix them: this last is best in a Venerial Cause.

94 ℞ Shavings of Lignum sanctum ℥ jv: Sarsparilla ℥ vj: Antimony poudred and tyd up in a Rag ℥ vi: China ℥ ij: of all the San∣ders, A. ℥ j: shavings of Ivo∣ry and Harts-horn, A. ℥ ss: spring-water lb xvj: infuse and boil till half is consum'd, then strain it. To the Ingre∣dients put more water lbxvj: infuse and boil till one third is consumed, adding Rasins of the Sun lbj: liquorice ℥ j: strain and keep it for ordina∣ry use Drink. Willis.

95. In a hot Tempera∣ment cholerick, increase the Sarsa chiefly, and then the China, leaving the Guajacum wholy out. This is agreable with Experience. After the Sudorifick dose, in the morn∣ing, it's good in some diseases to provoke Sweat further, as in Bath, Chair or Stove, &c. so will the recrements of the Blood and nervous Juyce the better breath forth: also to continue the taking thereof, the space of 30, 40, 60, or more dayes, &c.

96. ℞ Virginian Snake∣root ʒj; Saffron ℈ss: Trea∣cle Vinegar ℥ j: Hippocrass ℥ iij: mix them.

97. ℞ Tinctura Diapho∣retica Paracelsi cum Opio, ʒ ss ad ℈ij: Bezoartick Vi∣negar ℥ j: mix them.

98. ℞ Elixir de Contra∣yerva, Elixir of the Virgini∣an Snake-root, A. ʒ ss: Hip∣pocrass ℥ jv: mix, and give it: if you add Salt of Wormwood, gr. xvj: it will be much better.

99. ℞ Viper-pouder ℈ijss Saffron in pouder, Salt of Wormwood A. ℈ ss: mix them.

100. ℞ Pouder of Toads prepared by a close Calcina∣tion à ʒ ss ad ʒ j: Oriental Bezoar ℈ ss. Saffron gr. vii: mix them.

101. ℞ Contrayerva, Vir∣ginian Snake-root, Zedoary, A. ʒ j: Saffron, Cochinel, A. ʒ ss: Oriental Bezoar, ℈ j; mix them.

102. ℞ Extract of Virgi∣nian Snake-root ʒ ss: pou∣der of Crabs-Claws com∣pound ℈j: mix them.

103. ℞ Pulvis antipestilen∣tialis ʒ ss: Bezoartick water ℥ j: Hippocrass ℥ ij: mix them.

104. ℞ Pulvis sudorificus Barbetti ʒ ss: Saffron ℈ ss: Musk gr. v. mix them.

105. ℞ of our Pouder of Crabs claws compound ℈ j: Extract of Carduus ℈ ss: with Balsam of Peru, q. s. make a Bolus.

106. ℞ Crabs Claws, Con∣tra yerva both in fine Pou∣der, Ceruse of Antimony, A. ℥ ij: Pearl, Coral both sorts, whitest Amber, Crabs-Eys, Harts-horn, Crystal, all pre∣pared by Levigation, A. ℥i: Western Bezoar, Lemnian Earth, Cochinel, A. ℥ ss: Ambergrise ʒi ss: Musk ʒss: make all into subtile pouder, which form into little round Balls with Gelly of Vipers∣skins: Dose ℈j ad ʒj: This is Dr Willis's Bezoartic pouder.

107. ℞ of the former Be∣zoartick Pouder ℈ j: pouder of Toads prepared: gr. vj: mix them, and give it in a spoonful of Treacle-water.

108. ℞ of the former Be∣zoartick pouder, ℈ i: ex∣tract of Treacle ʒ ss to ʒ j: make a Bolus.

109. ℞ of the said Bezo∣artick pouder ℈j: Extract of Carduus ʒ ss: Salt of Worm∣wood gr. xv. Syrup of Juyce of Citrons: q. s. make a Bo∣lus.

110. ℞ of the said Bezo∣artick Pouder ℈ j ad ʒ ss: Mithridate ʒ ss ad ʒ j: Sy∣rup of juyce of Citrons, q. s. make a Bolus.

111. ℞ of our Bezoar∣tick stone (hereafter to be taught, viz. at the end of the Sudorificks) ℈j ad ʒj: bruise it, and give it in Confect of Alkermes ʒ ij: or in Hippo∣crass ℥ iij.

112. ℞ of our Bezoar∣tick stone ℈ j ad ℈ ii: Mi∣thridate ʒ ss: mix and make a Bolus.

113. ℞ of our Bezoartick stone ℈ j ad ʒ j: Electua∣rium ad Tabidos, ʒ j: mix and make a Bolus.

IIII. Sudorificks or Hydroticks, which have for their Ba∣sis, a spirit.

114. ℞ Hyppocras ℥iij: Spirit of Treacle camphora∣ted ʒss ad ʒ j or more: mix them.

115. ℞ Hyppocrass ℥ iij: mixtura simplex ʒ j or ℈ iv mix them for a dose.

116. ℞ Spirit of black Cherries, Hypocras, A. ℥i ss: Treacle-water ℥j, mix them.

117. ℞ Spirit of Juniper berries, Hippocras, A. ℥jss: Angelica water the greater composition ℥ j: mixtura simplex ʒ ss: mix them.

118. ℞ Hyppocrass ℥ iij: Tincture of Salt of Tartar ℈ j ad ʒ j: mix them.

119. ℞ Hyppocrass ℥ jv: Tincture of Antimony ℥ ss, ad ʒ j: Tinctura Vitae ʒ j ss: mix them.

120. ℞ Aqua Epidemica ℥ ij: Hypocrass ℥ j ss: Crol∣lius his Treacle-water cam∣phorated ℥ j ss: mix them: 'tis a good thing.

121. ℞ Roots of Butter∣bur, of Valerian, A. ℥ij: Ze∣doary, Contrayerva, Virgi∣nian snake-root, A. ℥ i ss: flowers of Butter-bur, M. jv: Saffron ʒij: cut, bruise, and affuse thereon Canary lb jv: distil S. A. and let the whole Liquor be mixed. Dose ℥ ij ad iij: In the Beak of the Alembick hang Saffron ʒ j ty'd up in a rag.

122. ℞ Roots of Angeli∣ca, of Imperatoria, A. ℥iv: Zedoary, Elecampane, Con∣trayerva, Gentian, lesser Ga∣langal, A. ℥ j: Tops of Car∣duus, Rue, Angelica, A.M. iij: middle Bark of Ash ℥ vj: of the best Wine lb vj: Spirit of Vinegar lb ii: mix and distil S.A. dose ℥ iij: These spirituous Sudorificks are good for old People, cold and moist Constitutions, and such as are obnoxious to the Palsy and Dropsy: but in Feaver. ish, hot, cholerick Constitu∣tions, &c. They are naught.

V. Sudorificks or Hydroticks, whose Basis is a Sulphure∣ous Matter, which are commonly given in a pituitous and frigid Constitution, thereby rarifying the Blood.

123. ℞ Balsam of Peru, à gut, x ad ℈j: Angelica or Bawm water ℥ iij: Bezoar∣tick water ʒ ss or ʒ vi: or more: mix, and give it eve∣ry morning for many days.

124. ℞ Balsam of Tolu, ℈ j: strong Bezoar water

or Angelica-water, the grea∣ter Composition, ℥ j ss: mix them, and give it every mor∣ning.

125. ℞ Opobalsamum, gut. x. or xij: Bezoartick wa∣ter ℥ j: mix, and give it ma∣ny Mornings.

126. ℞ Tincture of the Balsam of Peru, or Tolu ʒjss Spirit of Angelica the grea∣ter Composition ℥ is: Syrup of Corn-poppies ʒ vj: mix and add thereto Hyppocrass ℥ iij.

127. ℞ Resin of Guaja∣cum ʒ ij: Chymical Oyl of the same ℈j: Bezoar mi∣neral, GumGuajacum, A. ʒjss Balsam of Peru, q.s. make a Mass for Pills. Dose ʒ ss a d ℈ ij: drinking after it a dose of some Sudorifick water or Decoction. Willis.

128. ℞ Balsam of Peru ʒ ss ad ʒ j: Spirit of Harts∣horn ℈ j ad ℈ ijj: mix and add thereto Bezoartick water ℥ j: Hypocras ℥ ij.

129. ℞ Balsam of Tolu ʒ ss ad ʒ j: Spirit of Soot, à gut xvj ad ʒ ss or more: mix and add Angelica water the greater Composition ℥ iij or iiij.

130. ℞ Balsam of Peru ʒ ss ad ʒ j: Spirit or rather Powers of Amber ℈ j ad ℈ij or more: Angelica water aforesaid ℥ iiij: mix them.

VI. Sudorisicks or Hydroticks, whose Basis is an acid Salt, which are given when the Mass of blood is too much shut up or bound too fast by saline fixed Particles, combined with Sulphureous and ••crrestrial, whereby its serosities are not easy to be sent away by Sweat, as in continual Fea∣vers, Scurvy, &c. where this Acid meeting with the said fixed Salt in the Body, dissolves the Combinations, and so unlocks the fermenting Blood, disposing it to an Ephidro∣sis or Sweating.

131. ℞ Angelica water the greater Composition: ℥ij: Tin∣ctura diaphoretica Mynsichti ʒ iij: Spirit of Tartar ʒ ss to ʒ j; flowers of Sal Armo∣niack ℈ ss: mix them.

132. ℞ Sudorifick water ℥ iij: Spirit of Tartar ℈ ij:

flowers of Sal Armoniack ℈ j, mix them.

133. ℞ Aqua Bezoartica, Prophylactick water of Syl∣vius A. ℥ ss: Mixtura sim∣plex ʒ ss: mix them.

134. ℞ Aqua Epidemica ℥ ii ss: Tinctura Diaphore∣tica Paracelsi ʒ ss: Volatile Sal Armoniack ℈ ss: Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers ʒ vi: mix them.

135. ℞ Aqua Theriaca∣lis ℥ j ss: Tinctura Pestifera ℥ j: Tinctura Diaphoretic. Mynsichti ʒ ij: Bezoartick Vinegar ʒ iij: Syrup of Juyce of Citrons ℥ j: mix them.

136. ℞ Carduus water ℥ ij: Aqua Epidemica ℥ i: Bezoartick Vinegar ʒ vj: mix them.

137. ℞ of Aqua Imperi∣alis Tinctura Pestifera A. ℥ j simple mixture ʒ j: Syrup of Juyce of Citrons ℥ ss: mix them.

138. ℞ Treacle-water ℥ij: Bezoartick Vinegar ℥j: Mi∣thridate ʒ ij: choise Hyp∣pocras ℥iij: mix them, and give it: 'tis an excellent Dose.

VII. Sudorificks or Hydroticks whose Basis is a fixt or Vo∣latile Salt, which may be given to such whose Blood abounds in a Sercus humor, degenerating into a Sowrness, as in a Dropsie, Cacochymia, and Convulsive affections: for, these Salts meeting with the acid, saline Particles of the humors, and combining with them, unlock the joynting together of the Blood, and by their Heterogenity agitate its Mass, whereby its Scrosities are the more easily sepa∣pated in Sweating.

139. ℞ Aqua Epidemica 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ij: Syrup of Clove-gi••i∣••owers ℥ i: Spirit of Harts∣horn ℈ j to ʒ ss: mix them.

140. ℞ Bezoartick water ℥ ij: Syrup of Citron-Peels ℥ j Spirit of Soot, gut. xiv: mix them.

141. ℞ Tincture of Juni∣per berries, Hypocras, A. ℥iss Spirit of Sal Armoniack gut. viij, x or xij ad xv. Syrup of Citron-Peels. ʒ vj: mix them.

142. ℞ Crollius his Trea∣clo water ℥ ij: Hypoeras

℥ iv: Salt of Tartar gr. xv. flowers of Sal Armoniack ℈ss: mix them for a draught.

143. ℞ Scordium water compound: Butter-bur wa∣ter compound A. ℥ jss: Sy∣rup of juyce of Sage ℥ j: Powers of Amber, Volatile Salt of Amber A. ℈ ss: mix them.

144. ℞ Ceruse of An••••∣mony ℈ j: Salt of Tartar gr. xij: Volatile Salt of Amber gr. viij, mix.

145. ℞ Bezoartick pouder (at Sect. 106. aforegoing) ℈j volatile Salt of Amber, flow∣ers of Sal Armoniack A. ℈ss: mix, and give it in a spoon∣ful of Bezoartick water.

146. ℞ Pouder of Crabs-Claws compound, Bezoar mineral, A. ℈ j to ʒss: mix and give it as the former.

147. ℞ Ceruse of Anti∣mony ℈j or ʒss: flowers of Sal Armoniack, Salt of Am∣ber A. gr. viij: mix.

148. ℞ Mithridate ʒj: volatile Salt of Amber gr.viij Bezoar-Mineral gr.xvj: make a Bolus.

149. ℞ Diascordium ʒ j: Bezoar mineral ℈j: flowers of Sal Armoniack, Volatile Salt of Amber, A. gr. iv. mix, and make a Bolus.

150. ℞ Extract of Cardu∣us ʒ ss: Bezoar mineral, Salt of Tartar A. ℈ ss: mix them.

151. ℞ Venice Treacle ʒss of our Bezoartick stone ℈ j: Salt of Harts-horn ℈ ss: mix them.

152. ℞ Extract of Gen∣tian ʒ ss: of our Bezoartick stone ℈ j: Salt of Amber ℈ ss: mix them.

VIII. Sudorificks or Hydroticks, whose Basis is a nitrous Salt, which may be given in the same Cases with the for∣mer, for that they destroy the Power of the acid Salt, and so dispose the Mass of Blood, that whilst it ferments, its serum and Excrements may be the more easily separated and sent away.

153. ℞ Sal prunellae ʒ ss: Viper pouder ℈ j; flowers of Sal Armoniack, volatile Salt of Amber, A.

℈ ss: mix them, and give it in a spoonful of Plague water

154. ℞ Sal prunellae ℈ij: Salt of Harts-hord, gr. xii, or xv. mix, and give as the former.

155. ℞ Sal prunellae ʒss: Salt of Vipers, gr. x or xij: mix, and give as the former.

156 ℞ Sal prunellae ʒss: Salt of Harts-horn, Volatile Salt of Amber, A. gr. viii: mix them.

157. ℞ Sal prunellae ℈ ij: Salt of Soot, volatile Salt Armoniack, A. gr. xij: mix them.

158. ℞ Sal prunellae ʒ ss: Bezoar minerale ℈ j: flow∣ers of Sal Armoniack, gr. vj: mix them.

159. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒss: Ceruse of Antimony ℈j: volatile Salt of Amber, ℈ ss: mix them.

160. ℞ Mithridate ʒ j: Sal prunellae gr. xxv. Volatile Salt of Amber gr. xij: mix them.

161. ℞ Venice Treacle ʒss: Sal Prunellae ℈j: flowers of Sal Armoniack gr.xv. mix.

162. ℞ Diascordium ʒ j: Sal prunellae ʒ ss: Salt of Harts-horn, gr. xij: mix them.

163. ℞ Diascordium, Ve∣nice Treacle, A. ℥ j ss: of our Bezoartick stone ʒ vj: Confectio Alkermes Chymi∣ca ʒ iij: Electuarium ad Tabidos, Salt of Vipers A. ʒj mix them well together: dose ℈j: ad ʒ ss: in a glass of Hyppocrass.

IX. The Composition of Lapis Bezoarticus noster, or, Our Bezoartick Stone, aforementioned, which is two-fold.

First, For the Ordinary sort of People.

164. ℞ Terra sigillata, Viper pouder, A ʒviij. Ex∣tractum Bezoarticum dryed, ʒv, ℈j. dryed Extracts of Contra yerva, of Virginian Snake-root, of Spicknard, of Cloves, of Opium; Magi∣stery of Pearls, Magistery of Coral, Grains of Kermes, A. ʒiv. Volatile Salt of Am∣ber, Aurum Mosaicum, Saffron, Cochinel, Amber∣grise, Musk, Oriental Be∣zoar,

Mineral Bezoar, A. ʒijss ℈ss. Red Diaphoretick Mercury, ʒjss, gr. xij. Solar Bezoar, Camphir, A. ʒj ℈j. Purple Calx of Gold ℈ijss. Oyl of Cinnamon ℈ij. The in∣gredients being in fine Pouder mix them; and with Gelly of Vipers Skins q. s. make a Mass, which Work exceeding well together, and make it up into little Oval Balls like small Eggs, weighing about ʒij or ʒiij. a piece; then dry them in a shady place, till they become hard like Stones.

In this Composition (set∣ting aside the Gelly of Viper Skins) there is about ℥x. gr. ij. in Weight; containing a∣bout 192 Doses; so that each Dose weighs about gr. xxv. and contains in it of O∣pium about gr. 1.¼. And ℈j of the Compositum contains just gr. j. of Opium; of the Perfumes, about one grain, and a third part of a Grain: of the Diaphoretick Mercu∣ry, about 5/12. or almost half a Grain: and of the Solar Bezoar, and of the Camphir, of each about the third part of a Grain: and of the Pur∣ple Calx of Gold, about the fifth part of a Grain, or som∣what more. Notwithstand∣ing all which Proportions, the Medicament has a very great Essicacy; and is also very Dear: but in a full Dose those Proportions are some∣what larger; and after it is made up with the Gelly may be given à gr.xv. ad ʒss. and in strong Bodies to ℈ij: it Sweats powerfully. Now here is to be understood (as in all other the like Cas••s) That many small or minute things, of themselves incon∣siderable, being conjoyn∣ed, may make one great thing, and that of mighty force. This is most appa∣rent and demonstrable in Gun-pouder, so much as will discharge a Musket, has a mighty intrinsick force in it self; yet the particulars being unconjoyned, are very small things, and of almost inconsiderable worth: the same understand of this Our Medicament.

Secondly, For the Gentry and Nobility, which for di∣stinction sake, We call, Bezoarticum Regale No∣strum, Our Royal Be∣zoartick.

165. ℞ Solar Bezoar, Purple Calx of Gold, A. ʒviij. Ambergrise, Musk, Viper pouder, A. ʒvj. Red Diaphoretick Mercury, Camphir, Oriental Bezoar, Bezoar Minerale, Saffron, ••••chinele, Volatile Salt of Amber, dry extract of The∣bian Opium, A. ʒiv: Grains of Kerines, Extractum Be∣zoarticum dryed, dryed Ex∣tracts of Contra yerva, Vir∣ginian Snakeroot, of Spick∣nard, of Cloves, Oyl of Cin∣namon, A. ʒ ii: Aurum Mo∣saicum, Terra Sigillata, A. ʒj: The ingredients being in fine Pouder, with Gelly of Vi∣pers Skins, q. s. make a Mass, which work exceeding well together, and make it up into little Oval Balls like small Pigeons Eggs, weighing about ʒij. a piece: dry them in a shady place, till they become hard like S••••••es. If you add to the Mass fine leaf Gold in Pouder ℈iv. the Me∣dicament will be both more Glorious, and more Virtuous.

The whole of this Compo∣situm (setting aside the Gelly of Vipers Skins) is ℥x ʒiij, ℈j: of which the Greatest Dose is 25 Grains; so that in all there is just 200 Doses. In each Dose of which there is contained, of the Solar Be∣zoar, and Purple Calx of Gold, of each, almost gr.ijss: or about 2 •• •• grains: of the Persumes and Viper Pouder, of each almost one Grain and 3 quarters, or, 1 41/52. grains: of the Diaphoretick Mercu∣ry, Camphir, and Thebian O∣pium, &c. of each almost a grain and a quarter, or about gr. 1 〈◊〉〈◊〉. by which it may ap∣pear, That this much exceeds the former in Power and Vertue. After it is made up with the Gelly, it may be gi∣ven â gr.x. ad xxx. nearly: either in a Bolus, or in some proper Vehicle, as the Sick likes best: It is a great Me∣dicine, and almost of Infinite Virtues. Given in the lar∣gest Dose it provokes Sweat powerfully, and expels all

manner of Poyson and Ma∣lignity from the Heart, whe∣ther it proceeds from the Bi∣ting or Stinging of any Ve∣nomous or Poysonous Crea∣ture; Or, from the Conta∣gion of any Epidemick or Malignant Disease, as the Measles, Small-P••x, Calen∣ture, Sweating-Sickness, malign Feavers, and Plague it self. It mightily strengthens the Heart, revives all the Spi∣rits, Natural, Vital, and Animal, and fortifies the whole intire Man to a Won∣der: it is extream good a∣gainst melancholy, melts fri∣gid, clammy, and viscous hu∣mors, and thereby opens obstructions, prevails against affects of the Spleen, and Hypochenders, and discon∣tent of Mind; it is a singular good thing against the Scur∣vy, whether in a bot or cold Constitution, as also against the Leprosy, taking away Scabs, Scurff, Itch, Tettars, Ringworms, Morphew, Boyls, &c. by loosening the too strickt joynting of the Blood from a Comblnation of acid or fixt Salts, with Sulphurous Particles, whereby causing a new Fermentation, it sepa∣rates the Recrements and Impurities thereof through the Pores of the Skin, and sweetens it. It is a most excellent thing in all Burning, Continent; or Continual Feavers, for it interfers im∣mediately with their original Cause. It destroys the very Essence of Venoms, gives rest and ease, and takes away all manner of pains in any part of the Body. It is good a∣gainst Catarrhs, and stops all forts of Distillations (whe∣ther thin, sharp, or salt) falling from the Head upon the Throat and Aspera Ar∣teria: It helps vehement Coughs, expectorates, quen∣ches Thirst, cools Inflama∣tions, eases the most acute pains, as those of the Cho∣lick, Stone, Pleurisy, Gout, &c. and is good in all Fluxes of the Bowels, Womb, &c. It is eminent against Palpita∣tions, Swooning, Trembling, and other Passions of the Heart, sickness of the Sto∣mach, Wind, want of Appe∣tite and Indigestion: It is good against Gravel, Slime, or any thing making a Stop∣page

of the Urine, whether in the Reins or Bladder; it provokes Urine, takes away the heat and sharpness there∣of, cures the Disuria, Ischu∣ria and Stranguria, and is profitable for such as are troubled with Weaknesses, or languish under Hecticks, Consumptions, Poyson, &c. You may give it in a Bolus, made with a Conserve of Red Roses, or of Wood-Sor∣rel, and Drink after it a Glass of Tent, Alicant, or Canary. It is a specifick al∣most in all Diseases, which may befal the Head, Brain, or Nerves, for that it mira∣culously strengthens those parts, and recreates the Ani∣mal Spirits. It is also pro∣fitable for Women in Labour, for it expels both Birth and After-birth; and after De∣livery, it stupendiously takes away all the After-pains. Both the Prescripts have like Virtues, but the latter is the more effectual by many de∣grees.

Examples in Compounding Diureticks.

All the matter of all sorts of Solutions and Precipitations depends only upon the affections of Salts. And as the Blood and Humors abound very much in Salt, and are wont to be variously changed by it from one state to another, causing a sickly disposition; so there will be always need of great Discretion and Judgment in the Physician, to ad∣minister such Saline Diureticks, whose Particles may suf∣ficiently differ from those in Our Bodies, whereby Health may be recovered again. The which by what means this may be done, we shall the easilier Judge by running over the Diuretick Salts of every kind.

I. Diureticks whose Basis is an Alcalisate Salt.

It is evident that Alchali∣zate Salts do somtimes move Ʋrine. For in great stoppages of the Water, Pouder of Egg∣shells,

or of Crabs Claws or Eyes, have to some been a present Remedy. The reason of which is this, For that they do not fuse or scatter, nor sen∣sibly praecipitate the Blood. Hence it appears, That these kinds of Salts, are to be given in an Acetous Discrasy of the Blood and Humors; for that they bind up the acid Salts by their Combination, freeing the Blood from Fluxions and Coagulations, that thereby it might be strengthened to re∣tain its superfluous Serum to transfer it by the Emulgent Arteries to the Reins.

166. ℞ Salt of Tartar ℈ss. Crabs Eyes levigated ℈j. mix them.

167. ℞ Gascoin Pouder ʒjss. Salt of Amber, Sal Prunellae, A. ℈ij. Salt of Tartar, Nutmegs, A. ℈j. mix in a fine Pouder. Dose ℈j ad ʒss.

168. ℞ Pearl and Coral laevigated, A. ℈ss ad j. Salt of Tartar ℈ss. mix them.

169. ℞ Egg-shell leviga∣ted ℈j ad ij. Salt of Tartar ℈ss. mix them.

170. ℞ Pouder of Crabs-Claws Compound gr. xij. ad xviij. Salt of Eggshells gr.vj. ad x. Cloves gr.ij. mix them.

171. ℞ Calx of Eggshells ʒss. Gascoin Pouder ℈j. Egg∣shell laevigated ℈ss. Salt of Tartar gr. vj. Nutmegs, Cloves, A. gr. ij. all being in fine Pouder, make them into Pills with Venice Turpentine for a Dose.

172. ℞ Egg-shels laevi∣gated ʒss. Salt of Broom ℈j. make a Bolus with Turpen∣tine.

II. Diureticks whose Basis is a Volatile Salt.

These are commonly used to provoke Ʋrine in a sharp Discrasy of the Blood, for that their Particles being ad∣mitted into the Blood do de∣stroy the Potency of the fluid Salt therein, whereby the Blood recovering a due mix∣ture is freed from Coagulati∣ons, and sucks up again into it self whatsoever of the Serum is gone forth of the Vessels, and delivers the superfluous to the Reins, &c. These have

Particles fierce and elastick, so that in amending the evil disposition of the Blood; they sometimes dispose the super∣fluous Serum to be taken away by Diaphoresis or Sweat, as well as by a Diuresis, or pur∣ging by Ʋrine. To this Clas∣sis belongs the Volatile Salt of Animals and Minerals made by Distillation; as also the integral parts of the living Creatures and Vegetables, as Vipers, Bees, Millepedes, Grass-hoppers, Cantharides, Earthworms, &c. Mustard∣seed, Scurvy-grass, Horse-Radish, Cresses of all sorts, Crow-foot, Onions, Garlick, Leeks, Chervil, Parsley, A∣lexanders, &c.

173. ℞ Roots of Fennel, Partly, Smallage, Chervil, Eringo, Rest harrow, A. ℥j: Onions, Garlick, Leeks, A. ℥jss: leaves of Saxifrage M.j: Stone Crop M.ss: Parsly and Carraway seeds, A. ℥ss: Juniper-berries ℥j: Spring∣water lbiv or v: boyl till al∣most half is consumed: strain, and add Rhenish Wine lbj: choise Honey, or Syrup of Marsh-Mallows, ℥iiss: Dose ℥iv, vj; or viij. twice a day.

174. ℞ Onions, Leeks, Garlick, very thin sliced or bruised, A. ℥iss: Rhenish or White Wine lbij: Infuse 12 or 24 hours, then strain; and give the Sick of the Liquor ℥ii, iii, or iv: three or four times or oftner in a day.

175. ℞ living Millepedes N^o 50, or 60. or more, bruise them: Nutmegs bruised ℈j: Cloves gr.iij: Rhenish Wine, Arsmart water, A. ℥ijss: di∣gest 6 or 12 hours, then strain out, and gives it for a draught.

176. ℞ Onions ℥ij: leaves of Parsly, Chervil, Alexan∣ders, A. M.iij: bruise them all well: assuse White or Rhenish Wine lbjss: digest 6 or 12 hours, then strain, and squeeze forth hard: Dose ℥iii, iv: or more, twice a day.

177. ℞ rectified S. V. lbiij. Pouder of dryed Millepedes, or Bees, or Grass-hoppers, or of Cantharides, ℥j or ℥iss: Dose gut.x, xv, to xx, or xxx. in a fit Vehicle.

178. ℞ Tincture of Salt of Tartar, Tincture of Milli∣pedes, ana gut. xv. mix them,

and give it in a glass of Ca∣nary or Cinnamon water.

179. ℞ living Hoglice lb ii ss: leaves of Cresses, Cher∣vile, Saxifrage, Parsly, Hy∣dropiper, Golden-rod, ana, M. ij: Hors-radish-roots ℥ vi Mustard seed ℥ iv: Onions, Garlick A. ℥ iij: Juniper-berries, wild Carotseed, Roc∣ket seed, A. ℥ ii: Carda∣mums, Nutmegs, A. ℥ j: cut and bruise what are to be cut and bruised, and affuse there∣upon Whey (made of Milk with White wine) lbxii: di∣stil, and let the whole liquor (being distilled together) be mixt together: dose ℥ iv: 2, 3, or 4 times a day.

180. ℞ Bees dryed, Mil∣lepedes dryed A. ℥ j: Lovage seeds ʒ vj: Volatile Salt of Amber ʒ iij: make a subtile Pouder, and mix them toge∣ther: Dose ℈ j ad ʒss: in white or Rhenish wine, or Cinnamon-water.

181. ℞ Juniper-water ℥ iij: Hydropiper water ℥ij: Oni∣on-water, Radish water com∣pound, A. ℥ j: Spirit of Tar∣tar ℈ jv ad ʒ ij ss: mix for two draughts.

182. ℞ Juniper and Oni∣on water A. ℥ ij: Radish-wa∣ter compound, Saxifrage and Camomil water, A. ℥ j: Spi∣rit of Urine or Soot ℈ ij ad ʒ j: mix for 2 draughts.

183. ℞ Volatile Salt of Amber ʒ ij: Sal prunellae ʒ j ss: Salt of Millepedes A. ʒ ss: mix for a pounder: dose ℈ 1 ad gr. xxv. or ʒ ss: in a pro∣per Vehicle.

184. ℞ Volatile Salt of Amber ʒ ij: pouder of dri'd Bees and Millepedes A. ʒ j: mix them. Dose ℈ j ad ʒ ss: in white or Rhenish wine.

185. ℞ Volatile Salt of Amber, flowers of Sal Ar∣moniack, A. ʒ ij: Sal pru∣nellae, pouder of dry'd Bees or Millepedes, A. ʒ j: mix them. Dose ℈ j ad ʒ j ss.

186. ℞ Millepedes pre∣pared, ʒij: flowers of Sal Armoniack, salt of Amber, Nutmegs in pouder A. ʒ ss: Venice Turpentine q. s. mix and make pills for 7, or 10 doses.

187. ℞ Pouder of Mille∣pedes, Burdock seed, A. ʒjss: Salt of Amber, Volatile Sal Armoniack, A. ʒ ss: Salt of Vipers, Oyl of Nutmegs, A. ℈ ss: Balsam Capivi, q.s.

mix and make Pills for 8 or 10 doses, to be taken morn∣ning and Evening.

188. ℞ Volatile Salts of Millepedes, of Vipers, of U∣rine, A. gr. vij ad jx: mix them.

III. Diureticks whose Basis is a fixed Salt, or Lixivial.

These are commonly given to move Ʋrin in such as have Dropsies, chiefly in an Anasarca, and in an Ascites: So a Lixivium made of the Ashes of Wormwood, or Broom or Bean-stalks in Water, or Whitewine, and given causes a plentiful flux of Ʋrine, whereby those diseases are of∣tentimes taken away: but this has not succeeded in all per∣sons, for, in some, we have found upon the taking of these things, an Ascitis to have been increased, the reason we have in another place in part declared: however it is certain, That the Lixivial Sals do not fuse nor praecipitate either Milk or Blood, and therefore they are not by their proper Virtue dinretick, but seem to be influenced in that kind only when they meet with a mighty Acid or Coagu∣lative Salt in the Blood, where by encountring and de∣stroying its Energy, it causes the Blood (fused by the a∣cid, and so made unable to hold its Serum) to suck up the said extravased serosities, and so to recover its due Consistency, by which continually carrying it to the Reins there is made a large Evacuation by Ʋrine.

189. ℞ Vine ashes ℥ vj: white or Rhenish wine lbijss: Nutmegs bruised ʒ ij ss: in∣fuse close & warm 24 hours, then strain: dose ℥ vj: twice or thrice a day.

190. ℞ Rhenish Wine ℥xxjv: Salts of Tartar, of Wormwood, of Pease-straw A. ʒ ss: mix, and sweenten with Syrup of Marsh-mal∣lows ℥ iij, for iiij doses.

191. ℞ White-wine ℥ xxjv: Salt of Broom, Salt of Vine branches, A. ℈ ij: mix.

192. ℞ Spring-water ℥

xxjv: Salt of Broom, Salt of Bean-stalks, A. ℈ij ss: mix and sweeten with Syrup of Althaea, for jv doses.

193. ℞ Infusion of large Thomas Onions sliced ℥ xvj: (made in Water or Wine) Salt of Tartar, Salt of Broom A. ℈ ij: mix, and sweeten as aforesaid for jv doses.

194. ℞ Infusion of Mu∣stard-seed made in White∣wine ℥ vj: Tincture of Salt of Tartar ʒ j ad ʒ j ss: mix for a draught to be taken twice a day.

195. ℞ Water of Quick∣lime ℥ jv ad ℥ vj: Tincture of Salt of Tartar ʒ j ad ʒjss: mix for a dose to be taken twice a day.

196. ℞ Infusion of large Onions slic'd, or of Mustard seed bruised, in white wine ℥xxx, in which quench flints 6, 8, or 10 times, of which drink ℥ vj twice a day.

197. ℞ Rhadish-water compound, water of Hydro∣piper, A. ℥ i ss: Tincture of Salt of Tartar ʒ j ad ʒ j ss: Syrup of Althaea ʒ ij: mix them for a dose.

198. ℞ Salts of Tartar, of Vine-branches, of Worm∣wood, of Broom, of Bean∣stalks, A. ʒ ss: Coral cal∣cin'd white, ʒiss: Salt of Am∣ber, Nutmegs, A. ʒ ss: make all into a pouder: dose ʒ ss ad ℈ jj, in white or Rhenish Wine.

IV. Diureticks whose Basis is an Acid Salt.

Acid Salts fuse the Blood, and praecipitate it into Serosi∣ties, even as sharp or sowr things do Milk, being dropt into it warm: but this happens not alike in every one, nor to every one indifferently. In a healthful habit, or what is near it, the blood is replenish'd with a Salt partly fixed, partly volatile, and partly nitrous: but in some scorbu∣tical and hydropical Persons, it is filled with a Salt chiefly fixed: Inthese Cases Acid diureticks are given with Success: But in other Scorbutical and hydropical persons, as also in Catarrs and Rhumatisms, where the

said Salt of the Blood is only and wholy fixed, and the Vo∣latile totally depressed, they are thought rather to do hurt; in this Case Medicines indued with a Volatile Salt are more proper. Among acid Diureticks, Spirits of Salt, of Niter, of Vitriol, of Sulphur; as also juyces of Ci∣trons, of Limons, of Oranges of Sorrel, White and Rhe∣nish wine, Cider, Cremor Tartari and Tartar Vitriolate are Chief.

199. ℞ Arsmart Water, Water of Radishes Com∣pound, A. ℥iss: Parietary-Water ℥ iij: Oyl of Sulphur gut xvj: salt of Tartar gr.xii: syrup of Vinegar ʒvi: mix them.

200. ℞ Water of hot Ars∣mart, White Wine, A. ℥iiii: Juyce of Sorrel ℥iss: Juyce of Limons ℥ss: mix them for a draught.

201. ℞ spring-water ʒvi: Oyl of Vitriol gut. vj ad x, xij: or more, as the Patient likes it in sowrness; stir it well (because the Oyl is apt to settle) and give it for a draught.

202. ℞ spring Water ℥ vi: Oyl of Sulphur gut. viii ad xii or xvi: Syrup of Clove∣gilliflowers ℥ss: mix them for a draught.

203. ℞ Cinnamon Water ℥iss: Oyl of Sulphur gut. vj or x: mix them well.

204. ℞ Spring-water, Cinnamon-water, A. ℥ii: Oyl of Salt gut. iiii ad vj: mix.

205. ℞ Juyce of Limons ℥ii: Radish-water Com∣pound ℥iss: Syrup of the five opening roots ℥ss: mix, and make a Potion.

206. ℞ Juyce of Limons, of Citrons, and of Sorrel, A. ℥iss: Arsmart water, water of Radishes Compound, A. ℥iv: White Wine ℥vi: Oyl of Sulphur gut.xvi: syrup of Clove-gilliflowers ℥ijss: mix for four Doses.

207. ℞ Cremor Tartari, Sal Prunellae (in fine pouder) A. ʒiss: Pouder of Crabs-Eyes, or Claws ʒi: Salt of Amber ℈i: Tartar Vitriolate ℈ss: mix into a fine Pouder. Dose ʒss ad ℈ii, in a fit Ve∣hicle.

208. ℞ Tartar Vitriola∣ted ʒii: Pouder of Egg shels ʒiss: Cremor Tartari, Dau∣cus-seed, A. ʒss: make a fine Pouder. Dose ʒss ad ℈ii.

209. ℞ spirit of Salt ʒii: Harts-horn burnt and pou∣dred, so much as may drink it up, and make a Pouder: Dose ℈i ad ʒss. in a fit Ve∣hicle.

210. ℞ Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur ℥ss: Hartshorn cal∣cined, as aforesaid, q.s. mix and make a Pouder, with which mix Nutmegs in Pou∣der ʒiij. Dose ℈i ad ʒss.

V. Diureticks whose Basis is a Nitrous Salt.

Niter is a Salt, which is neither acid, nor fixed, nor vola∣tile, having a kind as it were of Neutral Property, or a middle or a central State between them. So much it has of a Volatile, as being melted and inflamed by Sul∣phur cast in, it will by and by, or in no longer time fly a∣way. So much it has of a fixed, as being melted in a Cru∣cible, that it will suffer a continual Fusion, and perhaps perpetual, without any great loss of Particles. And so much it has of an acid, as being distilled (its spirit being rather flame than vapour) comes acid into the Receiver. Niter is the flame whereby all sublinary Fire is enkindled and sustained, that by which all Plants do grow and flou∣rish, and by which all living Creatures live and breath. It cools the Blood notably, and as strongly moves Ʋrine, yet all its Particles are so far from being cold, that on the contrary nothing can be more igniferous, this is a Parodox whose reason out to be sought out, the which we shall do in some other place, we cannot attend it here. However it is clear, that Niter has Relation both to a fixed and vo∣latile Salt; for it, being put into Milk, will even (as fixed and volatile Salts) keep it from, or take way its Coagulation: in like manner being put into warm Blood, it will preserve it (as well as they) from Coagulation, and

discoloration: from whence we conclude, that the Parti∣cles of Niter being taken inwardly, may keep, or restore the just mixtion of the Blood, for that they hinder its Fusions and Coagulations, by making the flame of the Blood to burn more pure and clear, and freeing it from troublesome, heterogenous sulphurous Fumes, and suffo∣cating Vapours, so that being more loose from its close joyntings; its Serum is the more easily extricated from it, in the emulgent Arteries, and so sent away by the Reins through the Ʋrinary passages.

211. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒss ad ℈ii or ʒi: White Wine ℥viij: Syrup of Pellitory of the Wall ℥iss: mix for a dose: 'tis an admirable thing in a Dropsy, and in all stoppages of Urine.

212. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒss ad ʒi: Spring Water ℥iiii: Syrup of Pellitory ℥i: mix.

213. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒss ad ʒi: Infusions of Onions sliced in White or Rhenish Wine ℥ vj: Syrup of Pellito∣ry of the Wall, or of Marsh-Mallows ℥iss: mix for a Dose.

214. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒss ad ʒi: Salt of Amber ℈ss: White Wine ℥iiii ad ℥vi: Syrup of Pellitory of the Wall ℥i: mix for a Dose.

215. ℞ Sal Prunellae ℈j ad ij: Salt of Amber ℈ss ad j: Saffron gr. v: White or Rhenish Wine q. s. mix for a Dose, and sweeten them well with Syrup of Pellitory of the Wall.

216. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒiii: Salt of Amber ʒii: Salt of Wormwood ʒss: mix them: Dose ʒss: thrice a Day in White or Rhenish Wine, sweetned with Syrup of Pel∣litory.

217. ℞ Sal Prunellae, Crabs Eyes laevigated, Salt of Wormwood, A. ʒij: Mithri∣date ℥i: mix them. Dose ʒi or ℈iiii. thrice a day.

218. ℞ Sal Prunellae, White Sugar, A. ʒi: White Wine ℥jx: mix, and give it at three times, viz. at Morn∣ing, Noon, and Night.

219. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒi: flowers of Sal Armoniack

℈ii: White Wine ℥xij: Sy∣rup of Pellitory of the Wall ℥iii: mix for three Doses to be taken, Morning, Noon and Night.

220. ℞ Sal Prunellae ʒss: Volatile Salt of Hartshorn gr.xv: Infusion of Onions sliced in White or Rhenish Wine ℥vij: Syrup of Pelli∣tory of the Wall ℥ii: mix it for a Dose, to be given in the Morning fasting.

VI. Diureticks whose Basis is sulpherous or spirituous.

Of this kind there are several; some of which are Resinous: as Turpentine, Balsams of Peru, Tolu, Gillead, and Preparations out of them. Some Oleaginous; as Oyls of Juniper-berries, Carraways, of Nutmegs, of Wax, and drops of other Fat things, most of which being taken inwardly, cause the Ʋrine to smell like Violets. Some Spirituous; as Spirit of Wine, spirit of Juniper-berries, Radish Water Compound, with many other hot Waters; yea and strong Wines drank plentifully, which in Hydro∣pick and cold Scorbutick people happily produce a Diure∣sis. The cause is from the Sowrness of the Blood, its want of Spirits, defect of Fermentation, or strength of the acid and coagulative Salt, whereby the Blood is so weakned as not to perform well its Circulation, nor to contain within it self its superfluous Serosities, till it can carry them to the Reins; which defects, all the aforenamed Remedies take away, by heating, and enlivening the Blood, and restoring its weakness by adding spirits thereto, where∣by it is able to keep its whole mixtion intire, so that ari∣ving perfect by the Emulgent Arteries, it lets go its Se∣rum, and so provokes a plentiful and pleasant Diuresis.

221: ℞ S.V. lbviij: large Onions bruises, Garlick brui∣sed, A. lbj: Mustard-seed ℥iiii: mix and distil to dry∣ness.

Dose ℥ij, twice or thrice a day.

222. ℞ S.V. lbiiii: large Oni••••s, Jan••per-berries both 〈…〉〈…〉 A. lbss: Nutmegs 〈…〉〈…〉 bruise them well, mix and ••••til in a Copper Visica to dryness. Dose ℥jss. twice a day.

223. ℞ Millepedes pre∣〈◊〉〈◊〉 ℥ss: Nutmegs ʒi••: 〈…〉〈…〉 of Salt of Tartar, 〈…〉〈…〉 or aetherial spirit of Turpentine, A. ℥vi: distil in B.M. with a gentle fire; so have you a Spirit and Oyl; as also a deliquium of Salt of Tartar: each of which have a notable diuretick power.

224. ℞ Juniper-berries (gently and throughly dryed in an Oven, and reduced into a gross Pouder lbi: S V. rectified, so as it may fire Gun-pouder lbiijss: digest cold three or four days, then distil in B. M. to dryness. Dose ʒij, iij, or iiij: in White, Rhenish Wine or Canary, two or three times a day.

225. ℞ Ivy, Juniper and Bay-berries, fresh gather'd, A. lbss: Wild Carrot seed ℥iv: Nutmegs ℥ij: bruise all, and put them into a glass Retort, upon which assuse S.V. rectified lbiiii: and add∣ing thereto the best Venice Turpentine lbi: let them be distilled in a Sand Furnace with a gentle heat (in my opi∣nion a gentle B. M. would be better,) having a care of an Empyruma; so have you a Spirit and yellow Oyl, both egregiously Diuretick. Dose of the Spirit ʒi ad ii or iii: of the Oyl ℈ss ad ℈i: in a fit Vehicle. Dr. Willis.

226. ℞ the Magma of the former Prescript, upon which assuse Tincture of Salt of Tartar lbi: digest many days in a Glass Vessel close shut in a Sand Furnace, that a red Tincture may be drawn forth. Dose ℈i ad ii, or ʒi: in a convenient Vehicle.

227. ℞ Juniper-berries dryed very gently in an O∣ven, Winter-Cherries per∣fectly dry, both bruised, Mil∣lepedes prepared, A. ℥i: re∣ctifyed S. V. lbv: digest in a cool place for thirty days, shaking the glass 2 or 3 times a day: after let it settle three or four days, and de∣cant the Tincture which keep for use. Dose ʒi ad iii. in a fit Vehicle.

228. ℞ Balsam of Peru or Tolu, Mithridate A. ʒss: mix into a Bolus.

229. ℞ Balsam of Peru ℈ii: Mithridate ʒss: Mille∣pedes prepared in Pouder: mix and make a Bolus.

230. ℞ S.V. rectified lbii: Venice Turpentine, or Bal∣sam of Peru, ℥iii: mix, and extract a strong Tincture. Dose ʒi ad iii: in any fit Ve∣hicle.

231. ℞ spirit of Wine re∣ctified lbii: Venice Turpen∣tine ℥iii: Juniper-berries very gently dried and pou∣dred ℥i: Winter-cherries ℥ss: mix, digest twenty days, and extract a Tincture.

232. ℞ spirit of Wine rectified lbiiss: Juniper-berries poudred, Daucus∣seed beaten, A. ℥ii: Nut∣megs in Pouder ℥i: make a strong Tincture by digestion. Dose ʒi ad ii, or more.

233. ℞ Balsam of Tolu ℈i ad ʒi or ii: Millepedes in Pouder ℈ss: mix them.

234. ℞ Venice Turpen∣tine, Balsam of Peru, A. ℈i: Salts of Millepedes, and of Amber, A. ℈ss: mix.

235. ℞ Venice Turpen∣tine ℈ii: Oyl of Juniper-berries gut. x: Volatile Salt of Harts-horn gr. viii: Sugar ʒii: mix all very well toge∣ther for one Dose.

Examples in Compounding of Ischureticks.

I. Ischureticks which are said to thicken the Blood.

236. ℞ Blood of Com∣frey ℥ss: Lettice-water ℥iss: Gum Tragacanth ʒss: dis∣solve and make a Mucilage for one Dose, to be taken Morning and Night sweetned with white Sugar Candy, and that either alone, or dissolved in Milk.

237. ℞ Cowslip water ℥iii: Cinnamon Barley wa∣ter ʒii: dissolve therein Cher∣ry-tree, or Plum-tree Glew ʒi: for two Doses.

238. ℞ Gum Tragacanth, Gum Arabick, both in fine Pouder: Sugar Penidies, white Sugar Candy each in fine Pouder ʒvi: mix them. Dose ʒiss ad ʒii, twice a day

in Lettice Water, or Water distilled from Milk, or in Milk mix with pure Well-Water.

239. ℞ Gum Tragacanth, Cherry-tree Gum, both in fine Pouder, A. ℥i: white Sugar Candy in fine pouder ℥ss: mix to be taken as afore∣said. Dose ʒiss: or more.

240. ℞ Ichthyocolla, or Ising-glass, Comfrey-roots, both in fine pouder, A. ℥i: Lozenges of Sugar pearled ʒvi: mix them. Dose ʒi to ʒii.

241. ℞ Mucillages of Ichthyocolla, of Gum Traga∣canth, A. ℥i: Syrup of Let∣tice ℥ii: mix for two Doses to be given Morning and Night in Milk, distilled wa∣ter, &c.

242. ℞ Gum Tragacanth, Mastich, Olibanum, Amber, all in fine Pouder, A. ℥ss: Sugar Penides ℥iss: mix them: Dose ʒiss.

243. ℞ Olibanum, Ma∣stich, White Amber, all in fine pouder, A. ℥i: Pulvis Haly ℥ii: Balsam of Tolu ℥ss: make a subtil pouder. Dose ʒss, three or four times a day.

244. ℞ choise Rhubarb gr. xvi: Cinnamon gr. viii: make a pouder to be taken in the Morning fasting, for six, eight, or ten days.

245. ℞ Resumptive Ele∣ctuary ℥iii: Species of Dia∣tragacanthon frigidum ʒi: red Coral laevigated ʒii: Terra Sigillata, Confect of Hyacinths, A. ʒiss: Gelly of Vipers flesh, q.s. mix and make an Electuary: Dose the quantity of a Wall-nut, three times a day.

246. ℞ of Decoction (made of Barley and Water-Lilly roots) lbiss: sweet Almonds bruised ℥iss: White Poppy∣seeds ℥i: Seeds of Purslane and Lettice, A.℥ss: make an Emulsion: Dose ℥iii or iiii, thrice a day.

247. ℞ Water of Milk distilled lbii: sweet Almonds, greater Cold seeds, A. ℥iss: white Poppy-seeds ℥i: make an Emulsion. Dose as the former.

248. ℞ Water of Milk di∣stilled lbi: Smiths Forge∣water filterated, lbss: Let∣tice and Purslane water, Pop∣py-water, A. ℥iii: syrup of Lettice or Purslane q. s. mix

them. Dose ℥iii or iv, four, sive or six times a day.

249. ℞ Roots of Com∣fry, and of Water — Lillies, A. ℥iii: Dates sliced ℥ii: seeds of Mallows, of Cotton, of Plantane, of Flea••wort, A. ℥ss. Smiths Forge-water fil∣tiated lbiv: boyl till half is consumed: strain and add Syrup o•• Lettice ℥iv: Dose ℥iv: thrice a day.

250. ℞ Cypress-tops M. vi: leaves of Clary, flowers of Archangel, of Comfrey, and of Water Lillies, A.M. iii: Roots of Water-Lillies, and of Comfrey bruised, A. lbss: Mace ℥i: Cloves, Cinnamon, A. ℥ss: let all be cut small and bruised; assuse thereon New Milk lbxii: digest 12 hours, then distil to dryness, taking care that it Tast not of Fire. Dose ℥iv, thrice a day with the Pouders at sect. 238, and 243. or the Ele∣ctuary at Sect. 245. above.

II. Ischureticks endued with an Alchalifate Salt.

251. ℞ Terra Sigillata, red Coral, Cuttle-bone, all in subtil Pouder, A. ℥i: white Sugar Candy ℥iss: make a fine Pouder: Dose ʒss ad ʒi: thrice a day, in some convenient Vehicle.

252. ℞ Red Coral, Cuttle bone, A. ʒiiii: Hartshorn philosophically calcined, ʒiii: Pearls, Ivory, Crabs-Eyes, A. ʒi: make a fine Pouder. Dose ʒss, thrice a day.

253. ℞ Terra Sigillata, Pearl, Oyster shells, Harts∣horn calcined, A.℥ss: white Sugar Candy ʒvi: make a fine Pouder. Dose ʒss ad ʒi: thrice a day in a fit Ve∣hicle.

254. ℞ Ivory, Terra Si∣gillata ʒiii: Egg-shels, Oy∣ster-shells, A. ʒi: make a subtil pouder to be given 3 or 4 times a day in Confect of Alkermes.

255. ℞ of the former pouder ℥ss: Poppy-seeds ʒiss: make a pouder, which you may give in Syrup of Lettice or Purslane. Dose ʒss ad ℈ii.

256. ℞ of the pouder at sect. 253. above, ℥iii: of the Species Diatragacanthon frigidum ℥ii: Sugar Candy

℥iss: white Poppy seeds ʒvi: make a fine Pouder, which form into Troches with Mu∣cilage of Gum Tragacanth, weighing each ʒss: Dose iii, three or four times a day.

257. ℞ of the same pou∣der at sect. 253. ℥ii: Con∣serve of Flowers of Water-Lillies ℥iii: Electuary Re∣sumptive ℥iv: with Syrup of Letttice q.s. make an Electu∣ary. Dose the quantity of a Chestnut thrice a day, drink∣ing after it a draught of the Water at sect. 250.

258. ℞ Terra Sigillata ℥ss; Pulvis Haly ℥i: Con∣serve of Red Roses ℥iss: with Syrup of Lettice q.s. make an Electuary to be taken ℥ss, at a time, 3 times a day.

III. Ischureticks endued with a fixed Salt.

259. ℞ Tincture of Salt of Tartar, or of its deliquium ℈i ad ʒss: distilled water of Milk, ℥iijj: or new generous Canary ℥iss: mix, and give it thrice a day.

260. ℞ Tincture of Anti∣mony ʒi ad ʒiss or more: of the destilled Water at sect. 250. above ℥iij: mix them for a Dose to be given three times a day.

261. ℞ Tincture of Salt of Tartar, Tincture of An∣timony, A. ℈j ad ʒss: new Canary not yet fine ℥iv: mix, and give the same three or four times a day. New Canary alone (whilst it is not yet fine) is Ischuretical in some persons to a wonder: I have known it cause a stoppage of Urine not easy to be removed; and there∣fore in a Diabetes, I often chuse it for a Vehicle with good success.

262. ℞ Salt of Coral ℈j Ashes of Hartshorn ℈ss: give them in new Canary.

263. ℞ ashes of Hartshorn ʒss: syrup of Lettice ℥i: mix them, drinking with them, of a moderate Lime-Water ℥iii or ••iii, thrice a day.

264. ℞ of the pouder at sect. 252. above ʒss: Con∣serve of Red Roses ʒi: mix and take it; drinking after it the Lime-water asoresaid ℥iv: do it three times a day.

265. ℞ Conserves of flow∣ers of Archangel, of Comfry flowers, A. ℥iv: the reddest Crocus of Steel ℥ss: Coral Calcined tô Whiteness ʒii: syrup of Comfry, q.s. mix them. Dose ʒii, three or four times a day.

266. ℞ reddest Crocus of Steel ℈i: Coral, calcined, to whiteness, Hartshorn calcin'd A.ʒss:Oystershells calcined gr.vj: Mithridate q.s. mix for a Dose to be taken twice a day.

267. ℞ Red Crocus of Steel, Coral calcined, A gr. vi: pouder of Comfrey roots ʒss: pouder of Henbane∣seeds ℈i: Syrup of Lettice q.s. mix and make a Bolus for one Dose, give it twice a day.

268. ℞ Lapis Specularis calcined ℥i: pouder of Hen∣bane-seeds ʒij: mix them. Dose ʒss ad ʒj, twice or thrice a day: it is good against a bloody Excretion of the Urine.

269. ℞ Coral calcined white ʒiij: Gum Arabick, Tragacanth, Comfrey-roots, A. ʒj: make a pouder; for nine Doses to be taken three times a day in any convenient Vehicle.

270. ℞ the reddest Cro∣cus Martis ʒvi: Gum Lac ʒiv: Gum Tragacanth ʒij: make a pouder for 21 Doses to be taken three times a day in any proper Vehicle, chiefly new Canary.

271. ℞ Coral calcined ʒiv: Oyster-shells, Gum Lac, reddest Crocus Martis, A. ʒii: Gum Tragacanth, Comfrey-flowers, flowers of Arch-angel, A. ʒi: Egg∣shels ʒss: make all into a subtil Pouder. Dose ʒss ad ℈ij.

272. ℞ Coral calcined, Antimony Diaphoretick, A. ʒss: mix for a Dose.

273. ℞ Bezoar Mineral gr.xviij: Coral levigated ℈i: red Crocus Martis ℈ss: Mi∣thridate q.s. make a Bolus for one Dose to be given twice or thrice a day.

274. ℞ Antimony Dia∣phoretick ʒiiii: Bezoar Mi∣nerale ʒij: Gum Tragacanth ʒiss: make a fine Pouder for fifteen Doses to be given thrice a day:

275. ℞ Hartshorn calci∣ned ℥ss: Smiths Forge water

filterated lbiv: boyl till half is consumed; adding towards the End, of a Crust of Bread, of Comfry-roots, of Water-Lilly roots dryed, A. ℥iss: strain and sweeten with Sy∣rup of Lettice ℥iii. Dose ℥iv: thrice a day.

IV. Ischureticks endued with a Volatile Salt.

276. ℞ Volatile Salt of Harts-horn, Volatile Salt of Amber, A. ʒss: Pouder of Henbane seeds ʒj: mix for three Doses.

277. ℞ Volatile Salt of Hartshorn and of Mans skull A.ʒss: reddest Crocus Mar∣tis ʒii; mix them. Dose gr. xv. thrice a day.

278. ℞ Volatile Salt of Amber, Coral calcined white, reddest Crocus Martis, make all into a fine pouder for 9 Doses to be taken three times a day.

279. ℞ Solar Tincture with Sal Armoniack prepa∣red ℥j; Dose xx drops, thrice a day, in any proper Vehicle, chiefly new Canary.

280. ℞ Spirits of Mans Blood, and of Hartshorn, A. gut. xx: distilled water of Milk ℥ii: new Canary ℥iij: mix them to be taken twice or thrice a day.

281. ℞ Volatile Sal Ar∣moniack, Volatile Salt of Amber, A. gr.vj: pouder of Henbane seeds ℈j ad ʒi: mix for a Dose to be given thrice a day, or as you see need.

V. Iscureticks endued with an Hypnotick Quality.

These by stopping the Animal spirits, retard the motion of the Blood, and so hinder som∣thing its effervescency and fu∣sion, whereby the Ʋrinary flux is in part stopt.

282. ℞ Syrup of Meco∣mium ℥ss ad ʒvi: Lettice and Poppy waters, A.℥jss: mix them for a Dose, and give it twice a day at first; after∣wards thrice a day.

283. ℞ Diacodium Soli∣duum Vulgare ℥jss: being in the form of Lozenges, you may eat the quantity up in a day.

284. ℞ Diacodium in so∣lido, of the Augustian Physi∣cians ℥jss: eat it as the for∣mer.

285. ℞ Diacodium in so∣lido Actuarij ʒvj ad jx: eat it in the space of a day.

286. ℞ Diacodium Liqui∣dum, i.e. syrup of Meconium, syrup of Red or Corn Pop∣pies, and Syrup of Poppies Compound, A. ℥j: Syrup of Water Lillys ℥ij: mix them. Give the one half at Night going to Bed, the other half the next Night, and so conti∣nue as you see occasion: if these things prevail not,

287 ℞ Liquid Laudanum Helmontij gut. xx ad xxv or xxx: give it every Night in a Glass of choise new Canary.

288. ℞ Laudanum Para∣celsi gr.iij ad vij: give it eve∣ry Night, drinking after it a little Glass of new Canary: after 12 Nights taking, you may encrease the Dose every Night half a grain for 12 Nights more; then for 12 Nights more diminish half a grain.

289. ℞ of our Guttae Vitae gut, xx ad xxx: after twelve days, you may encrease the Dose every Night, one or two Drops; take them in Syrup of Water Lillies, or in new Canary mixt with Pop∣py water.

290. ℞ Laudanum No∣strum (at sect. 7. cap. 8. lib. 2. following) gr. ij ad vj: continue the same Dose for twelve days, after encrease it every Night half a grain for twelve days more.

291. ℞ Confectio Anody∣na Nostra gr. viij ad xvj: give it in Syrup of Water-Lillies, or Syrup of Lettice, or in Lettice or Poppy-water, or in new Canary, after twelve days, you may en∣crease the Dose every Night one grain for twelve Nights.

292. A certain specifick.

℞ Henbane seeds whole or bruised ℈j ad ʒij: accord∣ing to Age and Strength: Give them every Night go∣ing to Bed for five, seven, or nine Nights. I know one that has given these Seeds to ʒiv: three or four nights together, see cap. 1. sect. 47. aforego∣ing of this Book: Taken in substance they are best.

293. ℞ of a Decoction (made of dryed Comfrey∣roots ʒvi, and Barley hull'd) ℥vj: seeds of White Poppy, and of Henbane, A.℥j: sweet Almonds blanched N^o. vj: make an Emulsion which give every Night going to Bed.

294. ℞ of the Water at fect. 250. aforegoing ℥iij: solu∣tion of Gum Tragacanth ʒij: Emulsion made of Henbane∣seeds ʒj, in Water distilled from Milk: Diacodium ʒiij, mix to be taken at Night go∣ing to Bed.

295. ℞ Henbane-seeds ʒj ad ij, or more, made into an Emulsion in Water of Milk, or with the Water at Sect. 250. aforegoing ℥vi: take it at Night going to Bed.

296. Take Conserve of flowers of Water Lillys ʒijss: Henbane-seeds ℈j ad ʒj, brui∣sed well: of Our Guttae Vitae gut. xij ad xx: Tincture of Steel gut.vj: make a Bolus to be given at Night going to Bed.

VI. An Ischuretick Amulet.

297. Take a very well dryed Toad and large; sew it up in a piece of pure fine and thin silk, hang it about the Neck, so as it may fall below the Pitt of the Stomach; and let it be worn for two or three Months or more, With this I have perfectly cured four or five several persons (two of which were Woinen∣kind) of a constant Diabetes, and one of the persons brought it into the World with them.