The use of the Liquor of ♄, and how to make with it the false Magistery, Cremor, Butter and Nutritum.

WEE have said here above, that the Artist was to lay aside some part of the dissolution of the calx of Lead for his use, which is very considerable; for this Liquor may be made use of being mixt with common water, to make a Saturnine Ex∣tract, which is endowed with wonderful Vertues to resolve, dry, temper and refresh all the external parts any wise offended, dip∣ping Fillets in it, and wrapping about the members after they have been dressed and fitted by the Chyrurgeon; it hinders all inflammations, and asswages all swellings; so that I advise the Page  188careful Surgeon which minds the good of his wounded Patients, and his Reputation, never to be without this Liquor.

Put of this Liquor in a Dish, and pour upon it oyle of ☿ made per deliquium, and immediately a salt of ♄ will precipitate it self into a very white powder, which is that improperly called the Mag•stery of Saturn, being to speak properly, nothing else but a very subtile Ceruss; for when the salt of the vinegar which is acid, and holds the Lead in dissolution, comes to lose this acidity wherein consists it dissolutive strength, by the action of the salt of ☿ which is lixi∣vial, the Lead must of all necessity fall down, having nothing more to uphold it. This Precipitate must be washt to a sweetness in com∣mon water; and the last time with very good Rose water, and dryed afterwards gently; it is a very fair white for Pomatums, which may also be us'd in Salves and Collyrie's, for it is an excellent desicca∣tive, acting gently and inoffensively.

To make the Cremor, Butter or Nutritum of Saturn, grind only in a Brass morter liquor of ♄ with oyle of Olives, or Roses, putting a little of each of the substances one after the other, and stirring them nimbly and strongly together, until all be united and form'd into a substance like unto Cream or butter, called Nutritum in the shops; if you make use of oyle of Olives, this Liniment will be very white; but if whey or oyle of Roses, it will become yellow, the acid of the liquor having in some kind resuscitated and revived the colour of the Rose, which was hidden, and as it were buried under the greeness of the oyle. It is a soveraign Remedy against breaking of the skin by bruises or otherwise, Itch, Scab, inflamma∣tions of Boils, Botches, Erisipela's; for besides that it doth dry powerfully, it deads also and mortifies the ill Ferment which is in the part, and causes all the irritations and accidents thereof; it doth wonders against burnings, and to allay the grief of hot Gouts, with∣out giving any occasion to fear it should strike the humour in by the pretended coldness which is attributed unto it; contrariwise it may be used with confidence, since all the Remedies taken out of Lead do work by the subtilty of their parts, and resolve all super∣fluities; as also kill and mortifie all the acidity, malignant and preternatural acrimony which causes the tension, inflammation and grief of the parts.