Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon].

Salmon, William, 1644-1713

Date:: 1688

Credit: Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$_ - E : eS Se hn we * 4 j ' k | Galafs of Wine; butinextream | then diftil. with a, gentle fire, and tah | difeafes,. where great neceflity | cobobate, digesting four days: di- lite | requires it, it ought to betaken, | fii again first, with a gentle, fire , bh | four ,rfive or fixtimesa Day, in | fo will the {ubtil Spirit afcend; then tts, | all. che liquor the fick: drinks., increafe the fire , and continue the all | . cwenty., twenty five: or thirty) | difillation. till no more will arife ; li. | drops atatime , as you fee the | fo will a.red Oy) lye at the bottom. ve. | Patient can bear it,and to be con-:| From the faces w before extra the Salt, which purify andvolatilize , and joyn with the Spirit and Oyl; circulate then for a month, and pere | tinued fix, eight, ten or,twelve weeks asyou fee occafion.. Out- twardly, bath the parts pained f; | or hurt therewith , morning and | fe#ly unite. them by, drawing them ai | evening.very well , and continue } over zm one diftillation. et it for ten, fifteen or twenty days, | .-Ilf..Or, Thus. Take: Amber in ie | or more, if need requiresePriee | fine powder. a pound: retkified Spi- rit of Limons a quart ; put all into 4Gla{s Retort well luted, .t0,mbich t a darce Receiver without lutin ie the ace foould. break. : give fire gradatim , andat Jaf 2 fire of :fupprefion , to. drive our the Oyl with the Spirit, which continue till no more Clouds appear. in the Receiver: .redify the Oyl, and free the..Spirit from , all imaginable flegm. From the Caput, Mortuum extra a-Salt., which purify and: eighteen pence an ounce. CHAP. XXVib- Poteftates Succini: Powers of Ame ber. rend VRS 1. ‘Ake the Amber into .moft fubtil powder , put it in- t0-the-beft- Philofophick~ Spirit -of Wine; dige& in Ralneo -Mariz for fifteen days: then’ diGil, first with agentle fire, fo have you-a piercing Spirit , afterwards a yel- low Oy! which mixes with the Spi- rit; then a red Oyl which jettles to the-bottom ,. and -is to be, rectified three or four times. From the Caput Mortuum calcined extract a Salt which purify and volatilize ; then joyn the Spirit, redified .Oy!, and Volatile Salt together , which circulate til they are united, and let them be drawn over in one-di- ft:ation. fine powder one pound, affufe upon $t Spirit or rather Powers of Tur- pentine two pourds or more, digeft IV. . The.,, powers, of Amber Head,Brain, Nerves,and Womb < They cure head-achs , Megrims, Vertigo’s, Lethargies, dulnefs, droufinels,. fleepinefS, and all o- ther pituitous diftempers of the Brain, . They are admirable: a- gainft, Convulfions ;. and. cure Cramps.fo: perfectly ,.as. that they never. return any more in that place,only by bathing there- with. | Palfies, nee ee$