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THe Golden Spirit of life of Rullandus. ℞ very white and light Coloquint, cleanse it exactly from all its seed, and shred and cut it as small as you can with Cizzars; then reduce it to Powder, having first anointed your Pestle with expressed Oyl of Nutmeg, or Oyl of Mastick drawn by distillation; searce the Powder, and
with good distilled Vinegar, reduce it to a Paste in a Mortar; then frame this Paste into Pills, or Trochisks, having first anoint∣ed your hands with the said Oyls; dry these Trochisks or Pellets in the shade, between two Papers, and reduce them to Powder again: and beat them the second time in a Mortar with the same Menstruum of Vinegar; frame your Pills or Trochisks, and dry them, and so re-iterate the third time; and, thus shall you have your Trochisks Alhandal fit for all uses and appositions, and much safer then those that are prepared after the old way with the muci∣lage of Gum-Dragant.
℞ ℥ i. of these Trochisks reduced to very subtile Powder, and put them in a circulatory Vessel, or a double Vessel (de encontre), pour upon it lb i. alkalized Spirit of Wine; stop exactly the Joynts of the Vessels, and expose your matter to digest and extract, to the reverberation of the Suns rays during the space of 15 dayes; this time ended, open the Vessel, and add ℥ ss of these Trochisks in Powder, then stop it and put it again as long a time in dige∣stion; open your Vessel again, and add for the third and last time ʒ ij. of the same Trochisks reduced to Powder, and continue the same digestion for 15 days more. This ended, strain or per∣colate the liquor, and squeez the remaining matter, then filtrate the Tincture by a Paper, and you shall have the Golden Spirit of Life of Rullandus, in its perfection, which you may make use of in such cases and diseases as you shall find related in his Cen∣turies, or in all other diseases wherein we have already said, that the Extract was useful and conducing. The dosis is from ʒ i. to ʒ vi. and even to ℥ i. if it be used in liquor: but, if you draw back the Spirit of Wine, and reduce this Liquor to an Extract: the dosis then must be from vi. grains to xxiv.
We could have added to this Section of Fruits, several other Operations drawn from these Mixts, as the burning Spirit of Pears or Apples, and several other fruits of this nature: but, as no body is ignorant, that the juyces of these fruits will ferment of them∣selves; and, that Art contributes no more to it than the bare distillation, to draw the Spirit thereof: I have thought it unneces∣sary, to deliver particularly the manner of it here, since we shall furnish a sufficient example, when we come to teach of the Ana∣tomy of Wine, in the Section of Juyces. It seems also, that we
should have been obliged, to declare in this Section, how the burning Spirits of Elder-Berries and Dane-wort, of black Cher∣ries, Straw-berries, Raspeses, Goos-berries, and other like fruits should be made: But, as we reserve the example of their fermen∣tations, where we shall speak of Juniper-berries, we refer to de∣liver our selves here fully to the Artist there. There is only a warning to be given concerning these fruits, that the Juniper-berries are to be disti••led before fermentation, because they have in themselves great store of aetherial Oyl, which must be extracted before they ferment; but, that as these other fruits are only juicy and without any portion of Oyl, unless it be that which is concen∣trated in their Seed, so is it not necessary to distil them before fermentation.