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THE COMPLETE HERBAL.

cut |two (

out the Squill.

The virtues of this are the same withJ Vinegar of Squills, only it is hotter.

it pass through Hippocrates’ sleeve, and jand when it hath stood so four days, takekeep in a vessel close stopped for use.

Vinum Helleboratum.

Or Helleborated Wine.

College.'] Take of white Helleboresmall, four ounces, Spanish Winepounds, steep it in the sun in a phial close jstopped, in the dog days, or other hot Jweather. I

Vinum Rube Hum. I

College.'] Take of Stibium , in powder, \ College.]

PHYSICAL VINEGARS.

inegar.

glass or stone alembick

Acetum distiHatum.

Or distilled VFill a _

one ounce^ Cloves sliced two drams, Claret $ with the best Vinegar to the third part.

Wine two pounds, keep- it in a phial close { separate the flegm with a gentle fire, then

shut. 1 encrease the fire by degrees, and perform

Vinum Benedictmn. t the work.

College.] Take of Crocus Metallorum, ( Acetum Rosarum.

in powder, one ounce, Mace one dram,! Or Rose Vinegar.

Spanish Wine one pound and an half, steep j College.] Takeof red Rose buds, gatheredit. ? in a dry time, the whites cut off, dried in

Vinum Antimoniale. \ the shade three or four days, one pound,

Or Antimonial Wine. j Vinegar eight sextaries, set them in the sun

College.] Take of Regulus of Antimony,in powder, four ounces, steep it in three

forty days, then strain out the Roses, andrepeat the infusion with fresh ones.

poundsof white Wine in a glass well stopped, After the same manner is made Vinegar

after the first shaking let the Regulus settle. \ of Elder flowers, Rosemary flowers, andCidpeper.] These last mentioned are 1 Clove-gilliflowers.vomits, and vomits are fitting medicines for i Culpeper .] For the virtues of all Vine-but a few, the mouth being ordained to | gars, take this one only observation, Theytake in nourishment, not to cast out ex- 5 carry the same virtues with the flowerscrements, and to regulate a man’s body in | whereof they are made, only as we said ofvomiting; and doses of vomits require a j Wines, that they were better for cold bodiesdeeper study in physic, than I doubt the i then the bare simples whereof they aregenerality of people yet have ; I omit it t made; so are Vinegars for hot bodies,therefore at this time, not because I grudge ; Besides, Vinegars are often, nay, most corn-it my country, but because I would notfmonly used externally, viz. to bathe thewillingly have them do themselves a mis-1 place, then look amongst the simples, andchief, I shall shortly teach them in what j see what place of the body the simple isdiseases vomits may be used, and then, and 1 appropriated to, and you cannot but knowmot till then, the use of vomits. | both what Vinegar to use, and to what place

Vinum Scilliticum. \ to apply it.

Or Wine of Squills. J Acetum Scilliticum.

Take of a white Squill of the j. . Or Vinegar of Squils.

gathered about the rising of the t College.] Take of that part of the Squill

College .]mountains,

dog star, cut it in thin pieces, and dried for \ which is between the outward bark and thea month, one pound, put it in a glass bottle, 1 bottom, cut in thin slices, and placed thirtyand pour to it eight pounds of French Wine, \ or forty days in the sun or some remiss