composition whereof it enters to wounded persons, either by the mouth or by glysters, because the effect thereof can never be but very succesful and redound to the good of the Patient, and reputa∣tion of the Physitian or Surgeon; it must also be acknowledged, that as those substances which exalt themselves into a good smell, give a testimony thereby of the good they are capable to do: so contrariwise, those who degenerate into an ill smell, and disturb the Oeconomy of the kidneys and bladder, show that they have some ill quality in themselves, which is to be shunned, as much as the other embraced and put in use. We thought our selves obliged to say this, that those who are ever in fear of hot or cold quali∣ties, without examining the specifick vertue of the mixt, they will imploy, may more and more shake off and root out their prejudi∣cate opinions.
The vertue of the ethereal oyl of Turpentine, called common∣ly, but improperly, essence or spirit of Turpentine is gre••t: for it subtilly penetrates, cuts, resolves, and attenuates the mus••il••gine∣ous and tartarous viscosities of the kidneyes and bladder, and pro∣vokes urine: it is also singular against the Cough, and other af∣fections of the Lungs, proceeding from some tartarous matter, against obstructions of the spleen and mother, against strangury and difficulty of urine, to expell the sand in kidneys or bladder, against Gonorrheas, and finally against ulcers of the neck of the bladder, and all the other parts of generation being infected with the venerosity of Venerean diseases; the Dosis is from iv. drops to xx. in appropriated liquours.
The yellow oyle, and balsom, which is nothing else but the red oyle, differ not very much in vertue, therefore they may either joyntly or severally be applied; for they do heat, attenuate, mundify and consolidate equally; which makes them very usefull and fit to be imployed with very good successe for restoring members benummed or contracted by cold and frost, for schirrous tumors, old running and rotten sores, gangreen, chil-blanes, whose sores it cures and consolidates speedily and perfectly, but the balsom sooner then the oyle.
But because the Aethereal oyle which is drawn from common Turpentine is not so subtile, nor pleasing to the smel or tast, as that which is distilled from the Venetian in a cucurbite, we must teach