Boyle WorkdiariesWorkdiary 8Page 3 of 4
zoom inzoom outrestorefirstlastpreviousnextnotesimagediplomatic

Loading Image

{Recipe} Stellæ {iron} signati optimi, modo Philosophico præparati, & {sal ammoniac} ana {tartar} bene Calcinati, extracti, filtrati, & ad salem album redacti, partem tertiam respectu Stellatis. Contunde simul Exactè omnia ac Sublima, cohobando quater. NB. 1. This is done in a glasse Retort igni nudo. 2. He perfects each sublimation in about an houre, in an indifferent Fire. 3. This Sublimate may be dulcify'd by the Affusion of warme water which having stood upon it till it have acquir'd a saltnesse, is to be decanted, & fresh pour'd on, till the Water can extract no more saltnesse; then the Sulphur is to be dry'd & kept for use. 4. He sometimes to one part of this Sulphur addes foure parts of Colcotar, which he sublimes together, cohobating it thrice. (The fæces runne per deliquium into an Oyle.)

Which cures all Plagues, feavers, smal Pox, Collick, stone, suffocations of the Mother, staying the course of women, dropsy, Distillation, paines in the joynts, is a greate cordiall & may be ....approximately 4-6 letters hole in page at crease in all diseases; the Dose is from [half]unclear a Drachme to a whole Drachme, in warme sacke or Posset-drinke, Sweate upon it, The Composition, Take Juniper berryes foure ounces, carduus benedictus seeds, rue seeds, angelica roots, tormentill roots, contra-yerva roots, <snake-roots> bistort roots, gentian roots, long Aristolochia roots, round Aristolochia roots, carline thistle roots, master woort roots, that is Imperatoria roots, rhaponticum hartshorn, comfry roots which is Consolida major, valerian roots, Calami aromatici roots, scordium leaves, yarrow that is mille folium, St. John's woort that is flowers & top, camomil flowers & top, sage the leaves, rue the leaves, fumitory the top & flowers, bugloss, which is lingua bovis tops & flowers, adder-grass root alias vipergrass or viperina, scorzonera roots, yellow Monk's hood that is Anthora, saffron, Marigold flowers, of each one ounce, Speciei diamargariti frigidi two ounces, all these being reduced into a fine powder are to be made up in a masse with the gelly of hart-shorne / It will keepe Good Thirty yeare.

Dr Coxes Elect. for me, in Spu-
to Sanguinis.

{Recipe} Conserv. ros. rub. per setaceum traject. {ounce} iiii corall. rub. [præparati] succin. alb. [præparati] Lapid. hæmatit. [præparati] et boli Armeni ana {drachm} i. Syr. Sumphyti I....approximately 5-7 characters hole in page at creaselii, [satis quantum] ut Fiat Electuarium molle de quo capiat sæpius in die qu. fabæ pro vice sen....approximately 3-4 characters hole in page at crease dissolvendo & deglutiendo.

In case of spitting of Blood take every Morning & about 5 in the afternoone a good large spoonfull of the Juyce of the stinging Nettle, in about 8 or 10 spoonfulls of some Pectorall Decoction, blood-warme. You may make the Decoction with an Handfull of Scabious, an ounce of Cumfry roote, sixe figs sliced, & halfe an ounce of liquorise boyled in a pint & halfe of water or posset-drinke, till halfe is consumed. then strayne it.

Dr. Butler's Cordiall.

Take 8 ounces of Wood Sorrell, beate it to a Conserve by it selfe for halfe an howre; then take 3 pound of loafe-sugar, beate them together for 3 howres; Lastly adde to them two ounces of Methridat, & beate that with them for halfe an howre. - The Dose is the Bignesse of a Nutmegge or small Walnut; it's good in Plague Smal-pox, measles & Feaverssecond 'e' altered in composition; & makes one sweate extreamly.