The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

MEDICAL REMAINS. 467
be as gone. Then cram them into an earthen Of the wine, and of the water,f milk, take of
bottle, very dry and sweet, and stop it very close: each three ounces, of the powder one scruple,
they will remain in smell and colour both fresher and drink it in the morning; stir'p the powder
than those that are otherwise dried. Note, the when you drink, and walk upon it.
first drying and close keeping upon it, preventeth
all putrefaction, and the second spirit cometh./ catalogue of astringents, openers, and cordials,
forth, made of the remaining moisture not dissi- instrumental to health.
pated. ASTRINGENTS..1 restorative drink. Red rose, blackberry, myrtle, plantane, flowei
Take of Indian maize half a pound, grind it of pomegranate, mint, aloes well washed, myronot too small, but to the fineness of ordinary meal, balanes, sloes, agrestia fragra, mastich, myrrh,
and then bolt and searce it, that all the husky part saffron, leaves of rosemary, rhubarb received by inmay be taken away. Take of eryngium roots fusion, cloves, service-berries, coma, wormwood,
three ounces, of dates as much, of enula two hole armeniac, sealed earth, cinquefoil, tincture
drams, of mace three drams, and brew them with of steel, sanguis draconis, coral, amber, quinces,
ten shilling beer to the quantity of four gallons: spikenard, galls alum bloodstone mummy, amoand this do, either by decocting them in a pottle mum, galangal, cypress, ivy, psyllum, houseleek,
of wort, to be after mingled with the beer, being sallow, mullein, vine, oak leaves, lignum alles,
new tapped, or otherwise infuse it in the new red sanders, mulberry, medlars, flowers of peach
beer, in a bag. Use this familiarly at meals. trees, pomegranates, pears, palmute, pith of kernels, purslain, acacia, laudanum, tragacanth, thus.dgainst the waste of the body by heat. olibani, comfrey, shepherd's purse, polygonium.
Take sweet pomegranates, and strain them astringents, both hot and cold, which corroborate the
lightly, not pressing the kernel, into a glass; parts, and which confirm and refresh such of them
where put some little of the peel of a citron, and as are loose or languishing.
two or three cloves, and three grains of amber- Rosemary, mint, especially with vinegar, cloves,
grease, and a pretty deal of fine sugar. It is to cinnamon, cardamom, lign-aloes, rose, myrtle, red
be drunk every morning whilst pomegranates last. sanders, cotonea, red wine, chalybeate wine, fivefinger grass, plantane, apples of cypress, berber.
J3elthusalemn water. dgainst all asperity and tor- ries, frasa, service-berries, cornels, ribes, sour
refaction of inwardparts, and all adu'Lslion of the pears, rambesia.
blood, and generally against the dryness of age.
Take crevises very new, q. s. boil them well Astringents styptic, which by their styptic virtue may
in claret wine, of them take only the shells, and stay fluxes.
rub them very clean, especially on the inside, that Sloes, acacia, rind of pomegranates infused, at
they may be thoroughly cleansed from the meat. least three hours, the styptic virtue not coming
Then wash them three or four times in fresh claret forth in lesser time. Alumn, galls, juice of sallow,
wine, heated; still changing the wine, till all the syrup of unripe quinces, balaustia, the whites of
fish taste be quite taken away. But in the wine eggs boiled hard in vinegar.
wherein they are washed, steep some tops of green
rosemary; then dry the pure shell thoroughly, and.dstringents, which by their cold and earthy nature
bring them to an exquisite powder. Of this pow- may stay the motion of the humours tending to a
der take three drams. Take also pearl, and steep flux.
them in vinegar twelve hours, and dry off the vine- Sealed earth, sanguis draconis, coral, pearls,
gar: of this powder also three drams. Then put the shell of the fish dactylus.
the shell powder and pearl powder together, and
add to them of ginger one scruple, and of white.stringents, which bythethickness of their substasce
poppy seed half a scruple, and steep them in spirit stuff as it were the thin humozrs, and thereby stay
of wine, wherein six grains of saffron have been fluxes.
dissolved, seven hours. Then upon a gentle heat Rice, beans, millet, cauls, dry cheese, fresh
vapour away all the spirit of wine, and dry the goats' milk.
powder against the sun without fire. Add to it of
nitre one dram, of ambergrease one scruple and a.fstringents, which by virtue of their glutinous sebhalf; and so keep this powder for use in a clean stance restrain a flux, and strengthen the looser
glass.'Then take a pottle of milk, and slice in parts.
it of fresh cucumbers, the inner pith only, the Karabe,* mastich, spodium, hartshorn, frankinrind being pared off, four ounces, and draw forth cense, dried bulls' pistle, gum tragacanth.
a water by distillation. Take of claret wine a
pint, and quench gold in it four times. * Perhaps he meant the fruit of Karobe.