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. VII. Of TINCTƲRES.

1. TInctura Aurea, The Golden colored Tin∣cture.

℞ Tartarized Spirit of Wine lbx. English Saffron, Cochenele, A. ℥ ij. digest all for 20 days, then decant off the Tincture, or you may keep it upon the Magma.

It is good against sadness, melancholy and dejection of Mind; the Plague, Small Pox, malign Feavers, and the bi∣tings of venemous Beasts. It strongly provokes the Terms, and helps in Fits of the Mo∣ther. Dose à ℈j. ad ℈ij. in any convenient Liquor; give it in the morning, or in time of Fainting.

2. Tinctura Vitae Nostra, Our Tincture of Life.

℞ Tartarized S.V. lbvij.

grains of Kermes ℥ij. Cinna∣mon bruised ℥i ss. Cloves ℥ss. Cochencle, Saffron, A. ʒij. digest, and separate the Tin∣cture according to Art.

It is good in all cases where the former is used: it cheats the Spirits, prolongs Life, and comforts the Heart, Stomach and Intestines. Dose a ℈j. ad ʒij.

3. Tinctura Cardiaca, The Cordial Tincture.

℞ Tartariz'd Spirit of Wine lbx. Cinnamon elect ℥v. Ze∣doary, Scorzonera, Rosemary∣flowers, A. ℥j. digest 20 days, and separate the Tin∣cture from the Faeces.

It is a very great Cordial, revives all the Spirits, exhi∣lerates and makes merry a sad and drooping Heart: it resists, Poyson, Plague, Small-Pox, and all sorts of malign Feavers, cures the biting of all sorts of Serpents, and other Venomous Beasts: and facili∣tates the Birth: having all the vertues of Cinnamon, and the other simples adjoyned. Dose à ʒj. ad ʒiij. in extremity, It is an admirable Cephalick, curing most Diseases of the Brain.

4. Tinctura Rosarum, Composita, Tincture of Ro∣ses Compound.

℞ Damask Roses dryed ℥iiij. Berries of Chermes ℥j. Tartariz'd S. V. lbiiij digest 10 days; then decant, and put thereinto, in a Nodle, Ambergrise ʒj. Musk ʒ ss. after twenty days infusion, you may (if you so please) dis∣solve in it a pound of treble resin'd Sugar; or you may keep the Tincture intire, and mix it when you have occasion to use it, with Syrup of Clove-G••lliflowers, and a little choice Canary.

This is designed as an An∣ridote against Melancholy, comforting the Brain, and all the internal Senses: it makes the Heart glad and merry, and cures all Fluxes; but see you give it not to Women with Child, or such as are troubled with Fits: without the Sugar, it is generally used as a perfume, from gut. ij. ad xx.

5. Tinctura Corticum, Tincture of the Peels or Bark.

℞ Cinnamon bruised, Li∣mon, Orange and Citron Peels, A. ℥iiij. Mace ℥ij. Tartarized S.V. lbvj. mix, digest 20 days, and separate the Tincture.

It is an excellent thing a∣gainst the Falling-sickness, Apoplexy, Palsy, Vertigo, Megrim, and the like; stu∣p••saction of the Senses, de∣flux on of Rheum, Faintings, Swoonings, Suffocation of the Womb, C••ollick, &c. give it with some Cephalick Water, à ʒj. ad iiij.

6. Tinctura Hysterica Nostra, Our Tincture against Fits.

℞ Tartarized Spirit of Wine lbv. Castoreum ℥iiij. Seffron ℥ij. Camphir ℥j. first dissolve the Camphir in a little of the Spirit upon a Stone, then with the Castor and Saffron, put it into the Spirit; digest 20 days, and separate the Tincture for use.

It is a good Hysterick and Cepbalick, helps the Suffo∣cation of the Womb, or Fits of the Mother, pains of the Heart and Stomach, and all cold Afflictions: give it morning and evening à ʒ j. ad ij. or iij. in Mint or some Hysterick water. But if the Sick is troubled with pains of the Head, you must not give it unless you leave the Cam∣phir out; and then instead of the Tartariz'd S.V. it will be best to make it with recti∣fied Spirit of Rosemary.

7. Tinctura Nephritica Nestra, Our Tincture a∣gainst the Stone.

℞ Winter-Cherries, Horse∣Radlish roots, dryed and well bruised ℥iij. Juniper-berries ℥ij. seeds of Fennel, Smal∣lage, Parsly, Saxafrage, Car∣damoms, Gromwel, Hog-Lice dryed and poudred, A. ℥j. tartariz'd S.V. lbviij. digest 20 days, decant and reserve the Tincture: then take rectified S.V. lbviij. Natu∣ral Balsam lbj. digest till all or the greatest part, of the Balsam is dissolved, shaking it twice or thrice every day: at last mix with it the former reserved Tincture, and keep them together for use.

It breaks the Stone, and brings away Gravel wonder∣fully,

whether in the Reins or Bladder; it is good against the Dysuria, Stranguria, and difficulty of Pissing: and as it were magically effects the Cure. Dose à ʒij. ad ʒiiij. or more, in Poppy or Ar∣smart-water, in which Salt of Egg-shells à gr. viij. ad xvij. or ℈j. is dissolved.

8. Tinctura Diaphoretica Paracelsi, cum Opio, Paracel∣sus his Sweating Tincture, with Opium.

℞ Tartarized S.V. lbiiij. Thebian Opium ℥vj. Saffron, Cochenele, A. ℥j. digest and make a very strong Tincture: decant from the Faeces: to this Tincture add of the Dia∣phoretick Tincture of Para∣celsus (taught in Our Pharm. Lib. 4. Cap. 7. Sect. 25.) lbxij. mix, digest, circulate, for a Month, and keep them for use.

It is a most admirable thing to cause Sweat; you will find it as good a sudori∣fick, as is ordinarily to be met with, expelling tartarous Diseases, the Scurvy, Pox, Dropsy, Jaundice, and Gout. It melts icy and resinous Hu∣mors, expelling Wind in any part; by its Balsamick Virtue it resists putrefaction, expel∣ling the malignity of the Mea∣fles, Small Pox, Plague and Poyson. To strong bodies you may give à ℈j. or ʒss. ad ℈ij. without any danger, and encrease it ad ʒij. or more, as you see need requires.

9. Tinctura Croci Metal∣lorum Composita, Mayher••j; Compound Tincture of the Crocus of Metals.

℞ Vinum Benedictum fil∣terated ℥ j. Carduus-Water, Oxymel s••mple, A. ℥ ss. mix them.

It is an excellent Dose to be given in a morning with due care against the Gout; it pre∣vails above many other Me∣dicines against that Disease. Let it be renewed three times, intermitting two or three days, agreeing to the strength and disposition of the Sto∣mach: according to the Age and strength of the Patient, you may augment the Vinum Benedictum, ad ʒx. or ℥jss. as you see occasion.

10. Tinctura, seu Lauda∣num

Liquidum Scheferi; the liquid Laudanum of Schefer.

℞ Thebian Opium (dryed as Quercetan advises) ℥ss. Engl••sh Saffron, Species Di∣ambrae, Ar••maticum Rosa∣tum A. ℈iiij. Ambergrise ʒss. rectified S. V. ℥vj. Oyl of Vi∣triol ℥ss. infuse all in a glass Matrass close stopt for 20 days, filterate, keep it for use.

It is a most admirable so∣porisick, eases all pains in a moment, and performs it in a most admirable manner, whatever the most excellent Laudanum can do. Dose à gut. iij. ad xij.

11. Tinctura Mercurij, Praestantissima; a most Pow∣erful Tincture of Mercury.

℞ Corrosive sublimate ℥iss. corr••sive red praecipitate ℥ss. S.V. rectified lbj. digest a week, and decant the Liquor for use.

It is a very good thing a∣gainst Phagedenick and Ve∣nereal Ulcers, Bot••••es and Tumors; with this Tincture but just wet the Ulcer or Fis∣sure, then apply Tents or Pledgets, which have soakt in the same Liquor, and are ••ryed again; or you may make Tents, &c. of Lint scrapt off of cloth dipt there∣in and first dryed. Use this as a Secret, but with Caution.

12. Tinctura senae composi∣ta, Tincture of Sena Com∣pound.

℞ Tartarized spirit of Wine lbviij. choice Sena lbij. Jallap in pouder lbss. digest forty days; then press out the Spirit hard; after filte∣rate and keep the Tincture for use.

It is a powerful thing to cure all hard, difficult and chronick Diseases; and is profitably applyed to the Pox, Gonorthaea, Jaundice, Dropsy, Scurvy, Gout, Kings-Evil, Scabs, Leprosy, Itch, Morphew, Hypocondriack Melancholy, and other like inveterate and Malign Disea∣ses. Dose ab ℥j. and ℥ij. in a morning Fasting.

13. Tinctura Cathartica Magistralis, A magistral Purging Tincture.

℞ the Alchool of Spirit of Aniseeds and Carraways

lbxvj. Sena elect ℥xxiiij. Jallap, Agarick, A. ℥vj. Sca∣mony, Turbith, A. ℥iii. the Ingredients being in pouder, (the Sena excepted) digest them 40 days in the Spirit, shaking the glass every day; then being setled, keep it for use upon the Magma or Faeces.

It is an exceeding good thing against all Chronick and Hypondriack Diseases; as Dropsies, Jaundice, old-He adachs, Megrims, Verti∣goes, Lethargies, dulness and drousiness; Obstructions and pain of the Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Mesentery, Reins and Womb. It opens and clean∣ses all those parts, cures Gouts, Rheumatisms, Con∣sumtions, Kings-evil, Pox, and other stubborn and re∣bellious Diseases: it prevails powerfully against the Green-sickness and Rickets: and re∣moves the Cause in Fits of Mother, Hypochondriack Melancholy, and the Scurvy: Dose ab℥ss ad ℥iss, in a mor∣ning fasting, in a sit Vehicle.

14. Tinctura Piperis; Tin∣cture of Pepper.

℞ Tartarized S. V. lbij: black Pepper ℥vj: Carda∣moms: ℥j: being in Pou∣der, digest them in the spirit, till it is red like blood: then keep it upon the faeces for use.

It is a most admirable Cure for a Consumption; I cur'd herewith a certain woman of an inveterate Pining and Wa∣sting, a supposed incurable Consumption, accompanied with vehement Dolors of the Bowels, after a two years dispair, when she was so weak she could not stand alone without two to hold her, looking like (as it were) the picture of Death, and giv'n over as past hopes by several very able and learned men. The alone taking of this Me∣dicine in Sack or Milk, and sometimes in Ale sweetned, but most commonly in Milk, morning, noon and night, and sometimes 5 or 6 times a day, for about a month or 5 weeks time, restored her (through the blessing of God) to the Wonder of all that knew her. It is also a pre∣sent Remedy against the Cho∣lick, and all gripings and pains of the Bowels: and po∣tently

provokes the Terms, if given for some daies accord∣ing to Art. Dose so much as will make the Vehicle, so hot as the sick can well endure it.

15. Tinctura Alhandal, Tincture of Colocynthis.

℞ Spirit of Wine lbviij: pulp of Colocinthis ℥xij: di∣gest a month, in a gentle heat; then press out; let it settle, and put it into a clean glass for use.

It is an excellent Purge for such as can take bitter things; it purges all humors even to a Miracle, and is of exceed∣ing use to such as are itchy or mangy, leprous, or have old filthy running Sores about them, especially in the Legs, and parts depending, it re∣moves Scabs, and venereal Botches, and mightily facili∣tates the cure of the French Pox. Dose ad one Spoonful or a spoonful and half, in the morning fasting: It may be taken twice or thrice a week; or, after the Use of Mercuri∣at••s; with which it may be alternately exhibited; twice the Mercuriate, & once this; again, twice the Mer••uriate and once this; and so on.

16. Tinctura ex tribus, Tincture of Three things.

℞ spirit of Wine lbviij, se∣na ℥viij, Jallap ℥jv: Cortex Esulae ℥ij: the Jallap and Cortex beat into gross pou∣der; digest altogether 40 days; shaking them once a day; then decant the clear, filterate, and keep it for use. Or thus, ℞ spirit of Aniseeds or Carra∣ways lbviij: senae ℥viij: Jallat ℥iiii. Elaterium ℥j. mix, di∣gest, filterate, and keep the clear: Or thus, ℞ Aqua Vite lb viij. Sena ℥ viij. Jallap, Gambogia, A. ℥iiij. mix, di∣gest, decant, filterate and keep it for use. Or thus; ℞ Aquae Vitae lbviij. Sena ℥xij. Jallap ℥iiij. Cambogia ℥ij. Elaterium ℥j. mix, digest, decant, filterate, &c.

This Tincture purges ad∣mirably, viz. that made by the first praescript, nor are the other much inferior; but the last purges the most excellently: they evacuate all watery humors, cure the Dropsy, Jaundice, Scurvy, Gout, Cachexia, Green-sick∣ness, and other evil disposi∣tions

of the body: Dose à ℥j. or more.

17. Tinctura Caryophylo∣rum, Tincture of Cloves.

℞ Cloves slit in two, or bruised ℥ ii, Tartarised S.V. so much as to over top them about 4 Inches: put them into a Matrass, make a don∣ble Vessel, with another small Matrass fitted to the former, lute them well together, and digest in a sand heat, till the S.V. becomes of a red black∣ish Color, which separate by Inclination, and keep it in a glass well stopt for use.

§ 1. Of this Tincture may be made a Syrup, by put∣ting to it Sugar, q.s. and so dissolving according to Art. § 2. You may also make of it an Extract, by Evapora∣ting the Tincture to the thick∣ness of Honey. § 3. The Ver∣tues. These are all good to strengthen and comfort a cold stomach, by drying up cold superfluous humors, it prevails against swoonings & faintings of the Heart, and gives ease in all Gripings and pains of the Cholick: It ex∣pels wind, and kills worms in the Body. Dose ab ℥ ss ad ℥j in Sack: outwardly bath the parts afflicted with it.

18. Tinctura Argentea, Tincture of Luna.

℞ Silver filings ℥ij: best spirit of Niter ℥ vj: dissolve in a Cucurbit: then precipi∣tate with salt-water lbij; so will the Calx fall down in a white pouder: let it stand a while, that all the Calx may fall, then decant the water by inclination: wash the Calx after with fair water to free it from all its Acrimony, dry it upon paper, and put it into a Matrass, to it put Velatile Salt of Ʋrine ℥ j. S.V. recti∣fied ℥ xxjv (let it be rectified with salt of Tartar: stop the mouth of the Matrass with another so as the mouth of the one may enter into the neek of the other; (which thing is also called a dou••le Vessell:) lute well the Joints with a wet bladder, digest in horse-dung, or the like gentle heat for 16 dayes; so will the S.V. be of a bright sky color, which take, siltrate, and keep close stopt.

§ 1. This Tincture is of ad∣mirable use in many Diseases

of the head, as Cephalea, Me∣grim, Epilepsie, Palsy, Apo∣plexy, &c. It may be given also against all malignant and pestilential Feavers, and the Plague it self; as also in the small Pox and Measles: Dose a gut. vj ad xvj. in choise Ca∣nary or same cordial-water, as the Aqua vitae Matthio∣li. § 2. Here is also to be noted, That at the bottom of the Matrass will remain a Calx of Silver, out of which you may extract a Salt; or you may reduce it into silver again by the following Me∣thod. § 3. Take Niter ℥viij, Crystal in pouder, ℥ij. Tar∣tat ℥ j. Charcole ℥ss. pouder all, and put it by little and little into a Crucible heated red hot, after the Dotonation is over, the matter will be melted, which pout into a warm Morter to cool: then pouder it, and mix with it as much of the sormer Galx at sect. 2. above:melt them in a Crucible with a strong fire, so will the Calx be reduced into Silver again, which when cold, you may separate from the Salts. § 4. This Tin∣cture is not a separation of one of the Principles; or of the sulphur of Luna from the other Principles; but on∣ly a dissolution of a part of the body of the Metal, being Volatiliz'd by the Salt of U∣rine, and united to the Spi∣rit of Wine. § 5. You may prove it thus: Put the Tin∣cture into a Glass-body, with a Receiver well luted; distill in B. V. till one half is drawn off: the remainder in the Cu∣curbit set to Crystallize, for two days; and continue the Crystallization, till no more will shoot: put all the Cry∣stals together, dry, and weigh them, then pouder them, putting to every ʒij there∣of ʒiij, of the mixture, at § 3. above, for reviving the Calx of Silver: this mixture meit in a crucible, covered with a Tile, by help of a strong sire, then taking the crucible our, letting of it cool, and breaking it, you will find the silver (before dissolved into Tincture) at bottom. § 6. The Salt water used in this work must be made of Water lbij: in which salt ℥jss is to be dissolved; for Salt engages the points of the dis∣solvant,

and makes it let go its hold of the Silver. You may also make the Precipi∣tation by putting into it little bits of Copper-plates. It is no mater which way you use, for it is done to no other pur∣pose, but to bring the Silver into a very sine pouder, that it may the more easily be dis∣solved afterwards § 7. The Silver Calx remaining (after the Tincture is extracted) is impregnated with Volatile parts, and would (if it should be melted alone) fly into the Air: but being mixed with the afore-mentioned matter, it is kept down, and hindred from flying away in its reduction.

19. Tinctura Martis cum Tartaro, Tincture of Mars with Tartar.

℞ Rust of Iron made by Dew ℥xij. white Tartar lbij: pouder and mix them toge∣ther, boil them in a great Iron kettle with rain-Water lbxv. for 12 hours: stir with an Iron Spatula from time to time, and put in more water (but boyling hot) as the for∣mer consumes; at last, let it settle a while, so have you a black Liquor, which is the Tin∣cture: siltrate it, and evapo∣rate it in an carthen Pan over a sand heat, to the thickness of a Syrup, or till a Pellicule shall arise.

§ 1. Here is to be noted, That water alone is not alde to penetrate and diss••••ve the Iron, should it bo•••• never so long; but the water being impregnated with Ta••••ar causes it to dissolve with much ease. § 2. The Tin∣cture being drawn, there will a white Matter remain (a mixture of the Earthy parts of Tartar and Mars) which may be cast away, as good for nothing, § 3. This Tincture some call Syrrup of Mars because of a noble sweetness in its Taste; and it is redu∣ced to the thickness of a Syr∣rup, that it might keep the better. § 4. As to its Vir∣tues, It is a very great Ape∣titive, opens the most invete∣rate Obstructions of the Li∣ver, Spleen, Pancreas, Me∣sentery, Reins and Womb: is excellent and Cachexies, Dropsies, Obstruction of the Terms, &c. Its opening Vir∣tues are much strengthned

by the Power of the Tartar: It sweetens the acid Humor, which is the cause of all Ob∣structions, for Mars is a cer∣tain Alcalie: dose à ʒss ad ℥j, in broth, or some other sit Vehicle.

20. Tinctur a Succini, Tin∣cture of Amber.

℞ white Amber levigated on a Porphery ℥jv, put upon it S. V. rectified, so much as may cover it abont 4 inches above the Powder; these be∣ing in a glass-Matrass cover it with a small blind Head, well luting the Juncture, di∣gest in a very gentle heat in Sand, shaking the Glass of ten, till the S. V. has dissolved the greatest part of the Amber, and the Tincture becoms of a transparent yellow. Ʋnlute the Vessels: decant this Tin∣cture into a Glass bottle, and upon the Magma put sresh S. V. alcooliz'd, cover it as before, and digest again, till the S. V. has almost diss••lv'd the rest of the Amber, and it becomes Tinctured, as before. This Tincture decant, and put to the former, filter them through brown Paper (but some Authors like it not, be∣cause a certain Volatility is lost through the attraction of the Air) put the whole into a small Glass Cucurbite, place it in a sand Heat, cover it with its head, fitting to it a small Receiver: Lute well the Junctures, and with a gentle heat draw off the one half of the S. V. The Vessels being cold, put what remains in the Bottom of the Cucurbit into a Glass, which stop close and keep for use. Being the true Tincture of Amber, im∣pregnated with the Taste and Smell of its own natural sub∣stance, & full of volatil parts.

§ 1. This Tincture has all the Virtues of Am∣ber mentioned in our Phar∣macopoea Londinensis, lib. 3. cap. 12. Sect. 49. where they are described at large, and performs all those things with ten times more power and efficacy, than the crude pre∣pared Amber can do, and therefore it's here commen∣ded as a most excellent thing. § 2. Some precipitate the Amber by putting sair Water into the Tincture, but this precipitate of Amber has no

more Virtues than Levigated Amber, although indeed it may be somewhat more pure: for having lost the Vo∣latile Sulphur which subtili∣zed and actuated it, it be∣coms gross and terr••ne again: so that indeed, you do but undoe what you have been doing with great Labour. § 3. But as all its Virtues are chiefly designed against Dis∣eases of the Head, Brain, Nerves, and Womb, so ought it to be given in some proper Syrrups, as of Cinnamon, Peony-flowers, &c. or in some Aethereal Spirit of Rosemary, Juniper-berries, Black Cherries or Spirit of flowers of Lilly Convally; for that if it should be given in any aqueous Liquor, the Amber would return to a body, whereby its effects would not be so good nor quick: dose d ℈j ad ʒj.

21. Tinctura Pilularum nostrarum, Tincture of our Family Pills.

℞ of our Family Pills in fine Pouder ℥jv, Quintessence of Aniseed or of some other Spice, enough to over-top it 6 or 8 Inches: digest in a very gentle heat for 10 or 12 days, shaking it 2 or 3 times a day, till the Tincture is perfect; which decant, and keep in a Vessel close stopt for use: if you think the Tincture is not wholy extracted, you may put upon the Magma, a small proportion of new Menstrum; which you may after ten days decant, and with other fresh Menstruum put it upon new pouder.

It has all the Virtues which are afcril'd to the Pills, works excellently and casily upon all humours, purges water and flegm powerfully, and pre∣vails against the Scurvy, Dro∣psy, Jaundice, Gout, Green-sickness, Cachexia, and all Obstructions of the Stomach Liver, Spleen, Mesentery and Bowels: Dose two or three Spoonfulls according to Strength.

22. Tinctura Diaphoreti∣ca c••mmunis, A common Diaphoretick Tincture.

℞ Ginger, Grains of Para∣dise A. ℥j. long and black Pepper, A. ℥ss. Cardamoms ʒiij. beat them to fine Pouder, which put into a glass with the best Camphir bruised into

bits ℥jss: put here upon re∣ctified S. V. so much as may cover them four or five inches over: seal up the Glass, and let it remain in Sand for a month (shaking the Vessel every day) or for so long time as you shall think sit: then separate the clear Tincture, and keep it for use.

It is a strong and potent Diaphoretick, and causes sweat beyond most other things: you may give it in Carduus or Cinnamon water or in T••••acle water, or other fit Vehicle, à gut. xx ad lx. or ad ʒj.

23. Tinctura sen Lauda∣num Liquidum Helmontij, The liquid Laudanum of Helmont.

℞ Juyce of Quinces, put into a fermentation with Ale∣yest, with this extract a deep yellow Tin••bure of Opium: this strain and aromatize; then draw off the one half of the Liquor in B. M. keep the remaining part for use.

It has the Virtues of all other Laudanums, and is gi∣ven with a happy success in dysenty rick affections, and indeed by many Physicians it is esteemed (but how truly, I know not) the most safe of any Laudanum. Dose à gut. xv. ad xx or xxv. in Canary or other proper Vehicle.

24. Tinctura Corallorum Digbeij, Sir Kenelm Digby's Tincture of Coral.

℞ the most sharp spirit or Oyl of Honey (made by di∣stillation of Honey, p. j. with sand, p. ij. in a sand-Fur∣nace:) put it upon pouder of 'red Coral, and, in 24 hours the spirit of Honey will be tinged of a deep yellow color: decant and put on more spi∣rit of Honey, and digest as before: reiterate this till it will tinge no more:then filter the Tinctures, and distill the Liquor off, that the Tincture may remain dry: upon which put good S. V. which digest till it is tinged red: decant it, and put on fresh S. V. and di∣gest to redness, as before; this reiterate, till all the Tincture is extracted: Filterate these Tinctures, and draw off the S. V. by Distillation: Ʋpon the Magma remaining put new S. V. and repeat this

work, till you have the pure Tincture and Solution with∣out Faeces, which will be as deep as the reddest wine, and throughly transparent.

It has all the Virtures of other Tinctures of Coral, to which I refer you: and is a Specifick in Diseases of the Head, Womb and Nerves: Dose à gut. xx ad xxx. in a fit Vehicle.