Take of Tar an ounce, Lime-water thrice cohobated two pints, distil it in a Bath to half; afterwards being filtrated, let it be drawn off to the consistence of Honey in Balneo; to which pour half a pound of tincture of salt of Tartar, let it digest in a close glass to extract the tin∣cture: the dose from 20 drops to 30 in a fit vehicle. After the same manner is prepared the tincture of the black oyl of Soot, liquid Amber, liquid Storax, and many others.
Take of our prepared Sulphur an ounce, adding Mirrh, Aloes, and Olibanum in treble quan∣tity, draw off a tincture with oyl of Turpentine, also with rectified spirit of Wine: dose from 15 drops to 20.
6, 7, 8. Troches, Lozenges, and Powders, because they chiefly respect a Cough, are almost of the same nature and composition with those before-described for a new Cough; unless that for the drying and healing of the Lungs things sulphureous and Vulneraries are required in a greater proportion.
Take powder of the leaves of Ground-Ivy a dram, flour of Brimstone two drams, of Su∣gar penids a dram and half, with juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Hysop-water make troches of the weight of half a dram.
Take of Yarrow bruised and dried in the Sun half a dram, flour of Brimstone, Olibanum, of each a dram; powder of dried red Roses half a dram, Sugar dissolved and boiled to a height six drams, oyl of Aniseeds a scruple and half, make Lozenges of half a dram weight: take one three times or oftner in a day, and especially evening and morning.
9. Pills.
Take a pint of the juyce of Ground Ivy clarified in the Sun, flowers of Colts-soot dried, the tops of Hysop, Sage, Pennyroyal, each a handful; Aniseed, Caraway-seeds, sweet Fennel-seeds bruised, each half an ounce; distil them in Balneo Mariae to half; strain it and distil it to the consistence of Pills, by adding half a dram of juyce of Liquorish, powder of Elicampane, flour of Brimstone, each three drams; flowers of Benzoin a dram, Balsam of Peru half a dram, tincture of Sulphur three drams, tartarizated Laudanum two drams: make it into a mass, and form it into small Pills to be taken three or four evening, and first in the mor∣ning.
10. Decoctions, as I have above prescribed for a stubborn Cough, are used with suc∣cess against a beginning Phthisis. In a case almost desperate I have prescribed the fol∣lowing Decoction to be taken twice a day, and also instead of ordinary drink with very good success.
Take Lignum vitae four ounces, China, Sassaphras, each two ounces; of all the Sanders each an ounce, shavings of Ivory, Harts-horn, each three drams: infuse them, and boil them in twelve pints of Spring-water to half, adding Liquorish an ounce, Raisins stoned four ounces: strain it.
11. Distilled Waters, such as we have before prescribed, are specific here, whereto may be added Solenander-water of Hogs blood and Turpentine; also Balsamic Waters distilled from Turpentine with Pectoral Ingredients.
Take leaves of Ground-Ivy, white Horehound, Hysop, Pennyroyal, each three handfuls; root of Elicampane, Orris of Florence, each two ounces; Turpentine dissolved in Oyl of Tartar four ounces, Hysop-water four pints, Malaga-wine two pints; distil them in a sand Bath: let all the liquor be mixed, the Oyl separated: the dose two or three spoonfuls twice a day, with a spoonful of Syrup of Ground-Ivy.
12. In the last place we must describe the forms of Vapors and Fumes; the admini∣stration whereof doth use to profit more than any other remedies in a Phthisis not yet desperate, for that they arrive at the very Lungs, and so purge them by an immediate affect, dry them, and keep them from putrefaction, strengthen and open all their passa∣ges. 1. Therefore a moist steam may be made after this following manner.
Take leaves of Hysop, Ground-Ivy, white Horehound, each two handfuls; Elicampane two ounces, Calamus aromaticus half an ounce, Aniseeds and Caraway-seeds, each an ounce: boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water: let the vapor of the hot strained liquor be drawn by the lungs through a paper rolled up like a cone or funnel: and used morning and evening for a quarter of an hour.