MEDICAL REMAINS. Grains of youth. Breakfast preservative against the gout and rheums. TAKE of nitre four grains, of ambergrease three To take once in the month at least, and for two grains, of orris-powder two grains, of white poppy-days together, one grain of castorei in my ordinary seed the fourth part of a grain, of saffron half a grain, | broth. with water of orange-flowers, and a little tragacanth; make them into small grains, four in number. To be taken at four a-clock, or going to bed. Preserving ointments. Take of deers suet one ounce, of myrrh six grains, of saffron five grains, of bay-salt twelve grains, of Canary wine, of two years old, a spoonful and a half. Spread it on the inside of your shirt, and let it dry, and then put it on. A purge familiar for opening the liver. Take rhubarb two drams, agaric trochiscat one dram and a half, steep them in claret wine burnt with mace; take of wormwood one dram, steep it with the rest, and make a mass of pills, with syrup. acetos. simplex. But drink an opening broth before it, with succory, fennel, and smallage roots, and a little of an onion. Wine for the spirits. Take gold perfectly refined three ounces, quench it six or seven times in good claret wine; add of nitre six grains for two draughts: add of saffron prepared three grains, of ambergrease four grains, pass it through an hippocras bag, wherein there is a dram of cinnamon gross beaten, or, to avoid the dimming of the colour, of ginger. Take two spoonfuls of this to a draught of fresh claret wine. The preparing of saffron. Take six grains of saffron, steeped in half parts of wine and rose water, and a quarter part vinegar : then dry it in the sun. Wine against adverse melancholy, preserving the senses and the reason. Take the roots of buglos well scraped and cleansed from their inner pith, and cut them into small slices; steep them in wine of gold extinguished ut supra, and add of nitre three grains, and drink it ut supra, mixed with fresh wine; the roots must not continue steeped above a quarter of an hour; and they must be changed thrice. The preparation of garlic. Take garlic four ounces, boil it upon a soft fire in claret wine, for half an hour. Take it out and steep it in vinegar; whereto add two drams of cloves, then take it forth, and keep it in a glass for use. The artificial preparation of damask roses for smell. Take roses, pull their leaves, then dry them in a clear day in the hot sun: then their smell will be as gone. Then cram them into an earthen bottle, very dry and sweet, and stop it very close; they will remain in smell and colour both fresher than those that are otherwise dried. Note, the first drying, and close keeping upon it, preventeth all putrefaction, and the second spirit cometh forth, made of the remaining moisture not dissipated. A restorative drink. Take of Indian maiz half a pound, grind it not too small, but to the fineness of ordinary meal, and then bolt and searce it, that all the husky part may be taken away. Take of eryngium roots three ounces, of dates as much, of enula two drams, of mace three drams, and brew them with ten shilling beer to the quantity of four gallons: and this do, either by decocting them in a bottle of wort, to be after mingled with the beer, being new tapped, or otherwise infuse it in the new beer, in a bag. Use this familiarly at meals. Against the waste of the body by heat. Take sweet pomegranates, and strain them lightly, not pressing the kernel, into a glass; where put some little of the peel of a citron, and two or three cloves, and three grains of ambergrease, and a pretty deal of fine sugar. It is to be drunk every morning whilst pomegranates last. Methusalem water. Against all asperity and torrefaction of inward parts, and all adustion of the blood, and generally against the dryness of age. Take crevises very new, q. s. boil them well in claret wine; of them take only the shells, and rub Then ed hard in vinegar. Astringents, which by their cold and earthy nature may stay the motion of the humours tending to a flux. Sealed earth, sanguis draconis, coral, pearls, the shell of the fish dactylus. them very clean, especially on the inside, that they | of unripe quinces, balaustia, the whites of eggs boilmay be thoroughly cleansed from the meat. wash them three or four times in fresh claret wine, heated: still changing the wine, till all the fish-taste be quite taken away. But in the wine wherein they are washed, steep some tops of green rosemary; then dry the pure shell thoroughly, and bring them to an exquisite powder. Of this powder take three drams. Take also pearl, and steep them in vinegar twelve hours, and dry off the vinegar; of this powder also three drams. Then put the shell powder and pearl powder together, and add to them of ginger one scruple, and of white poppy-seed half a scruple, and steep them in spirit of wine, wherein six grains of saffron have been dissolved, seven hours. Then upon a gentle heat vapour away all the spirit of wine, and dry the powder against the sun without fire. Add to it of nitre one dram, of ambergrease one scruple and a half; and so keep this powder for use in a clean glass. Then take a pottle of milk, and slice in it of fresh cucumbers, the inner pith only, the rind being pared off, four ounces, and draw forth a water by distillation. Take of claret wine a pint, and quench gold in it four times. Of the wine, and of the water of milk, take of each three ounces, of the powder one scruple, and drink it in the morning; stir up the powder when you drink, and walk upon it. A catalogue of astringents, openers, and cordials, instrumental to health. ASTRINGENTS. Red rose, black-berry, myrtle, plantane, flower of pomegranate, mint, aloes well washed, myrobalanes, sloes, agrestia fraga, mastich, myrrh, saffron, leaves of rosemary, rhubarb received by infusion, cloves, service-berries, corna, wormwood, bole armeniac, sealed earth, cinquefoil, tincture of steel, sanguis draconis, coral, amber, quinces, spikenard, galls, alum, blood-stone, mummy, amomum, galangal, cypress, ivy, psyllum, houseleek, sallow, mullein, vine, oak-leaves, lignum aloes, red sanders, mulberry, medlars, flowers of peach-trees, pomegranates, pears, palmule, pith of kernels, purslain, acacia, laudanum, tragacanth, thus olibani, comfrey, shepherd's purse, polygonium. Astringents, both hot and cold, which corroborate the parts, and which confirm and refresh such of them as are loose or languishing. Rosemary, mint, especially with vinegar, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, lign-aloes, rose, myrtle, red sanders, cotonea, red wine, chalybeat wine, fivefinger grass, plantane, apples of cypress, berberries, fraga, service-berries, cornels, ribes, sour pears, rambesia. Astringents styptic, which by their styptic virtue may stay fluxes. Sloes, acacia, rind of pomegranates infused, at least three hours, the styptic virtue not coming forth in lesser time. Alum, galls, juice of sallow, syrup Astringents, which by the thickness of their substance stuff as it were the thin humours, and thereby stay fluxes. Rice, beans, millet, cauls, dry cheese, fresh goats' milk. Astringents, which by virtue of their glutinous sub stance restrain a flux, and strengthen the looser parts. * Karabe, mastich, spodium, hartshorn, frankincense, dried bulls pistle, gum tragacanth. Astringents purgative, which, having by their purgative or expulsive power thrust out the humours, leave behind them astrictive virtue. Rhubarb, especially that which is toasted against the fire: myrobalanes, tartar, tamarinds, an Indian fruit like green damascenes. Astringents which do very much suck and dry up the humours, and thereby stay fluxes. Rust of iron, crocus martis, ashes of spices. Astringents, which by their nature do dull the spirits, and lay asleep the expulsive virtue, and take away the acrimony of all humours. Laudanum, mithridate, diascordium, diacodium. Astringents, which, by cherishing the strength of the parts, do comfort and confirm their retentive power. A stomacher of scarlet cloth: whelps, or young healthy boys, applied to the stomach: hippocratic wines, so they be made of austere materials. OPENERS. Succory, endive, betony, liverwort, petroselinum, smallage, asparagus, roots of grass, dodder, tamarisk, juncus odoratus, lacca, cupparus, wormwood, chamæpitys, fumaria, scurvy-grass, eringo, nettle, ireos, elder, hyssop, aristolochia, gentian, costus, fennel root, maiden-hair, harts-tongue, daffodilly, asarum, sarsaparilla, sassafras, acorns, abrotonum, aloes, agaric, rhubarb infused, onions, garlic, bother, squilla, sowbread, Indian nard, Celtic nard, bark of laurel-tree, bitter almonds, holy thistle, camomile, gun-powder, sows (millepedes), ammoniac, man's urine, rue, park leaves (vitex), centaury, lupines, chamædrys, costum, ammios, bistort, camphire, daucus seed, Indian balsam, scordium, sweet cane, galingal, agrimony. CORDIALS. Flowers of basil royal, flores caryophyllati, flowers of buglos and borage, rind of citron, orange flowers, * Perhaps he meant the fruit of Karobe. 7. To appoint every day an hour ad affectus intentionales et sanos. Qu. de particulari. 8. To remember masticatories for the mouth. 9. And orange-flower water to be smelt to or snuffed up. rosemary and its flowers, saffron, musk, amber, | rosemary and bays dried, which I use; but once in folium, i. e. nardi folium, balm-gentle, pimpernel, a week to add a little tobacco, without otherwise gems, gold, generous wines, fragrant apples, rose, taking it in a pipe. rosa moschata, cloves, lign-aloes, mace, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, galingal, vinegar, kermes berry, herba moschata, betony, white sanders, camphire, flowers of heliotrope, penny royal, scordium, opium corrected, white pepper, nasturtium, white and red bean, castum dulce, dactylus, pine, fig, egg-shell, vinum malvaticum, ginger, kidneys, oysters, crevises, or river crabs, seed of nettle, oil of sweet almonds, sesaminum oleum, asparagus, bulbous roots, onions, garlic, eruca, daucus seed, eringo, siler montanus, the smell of musk, cynethi odor, caraway seed, flower of puls, aniseed, pellitory, anointing of the testicles with oil of elder in which pellitory hath been boiled, cloves with goats milk, olibanum. An extract by the Lord BACON, for his own use, out of the book of the prolongation of life, together with some new advices in order to health. 1. Once in the week, or at least in the fortnight, to take the water of mithridate distilled, with three parts to one, or strawberry-water to allay it; and some grains of nitre and saffron, in the morning between sleeps. 2. To continue my broth with nitre; but to interchange it every other two days, with the juice of pomegranates expressed, with a little cloves, and rind of citron. 3. To order the taking of the maceration * followeth. 10. In the third hour after the sun is risen, to take in air from some high and open place, with a ventilation of rosæ moschatæ, and fresh violets; and to stir the earth, with infusion of wine and mint. 11. To use ale with a little enula campana, carduus, germander, sage, angelica-seed, cresses of a middle age, to beget a robust heat. 12. Mithridate thrice a year. 13. A bit of bread dipt in vino odorato, with syrup of dry roses, and a little amber, at going to bed. above half an hour at a time. 14. Never to keep the body in the same posture 15. Four precepts. To break off custom. To shake off spirits ill disposed. To meditate on youth. To do nothing against a man's genius. stomach. Inquire concerning other things useful gold is quenched. 18. To use anointing in the morning lightly with oil of almonds, with salt and saffron, and a gentle as rubbing. To add to the maceration six grains of cremor tartari, and as much enula. To add to the oxymel some infusion of fennelroots in the vinegar, and four grains of angelicaseed, and juice of lemons, a third part to the vinegar. To take it not so immediately before supper, and to have the broth specially made with barley, rosemary, thyme, and cresses. Sometimes to add to the maceration three grains of tartar, and two of enula, to cut the more heavy and viscous humours; lest rhubarb work only upon the lightest. To take sometimes the oxymel before it, and sometimes the Spanish honey simple. 4. To take once in the month at least, and for two days together, a grain and a half of castor, in my broth, and breakfast. 5. A cooling clyster to be used once a month, after the working of the maceration is settled. Take of barley-water, in which the roots of bugloss are boiled, three ounces, with two drams of red sanders, and two ounces of raisins of the sun, and one ounce of dactyles, and an ounce and a half of fat caricks; let it be strained, and add to it an ounce and a half of syrup of violets: let a clyster be made. Let this be taken, with veal, in the aforesaid decoction. 6. To take every morning the fume of lign-aloes, Viz. of rhubarb infused into a draught of white wine and beer, mingled together for the space of half an hour, once in six or seven days. See the Lord Bacon's Life, by Dr. Rawley, towards the end. 19. Ale of the second infusion of the vine of oak. 20. Methusalem water, of pearls and shells of crabs, and a little chalk. 21. Ale of raisins, dactyles, potatoes, pistachios, honey, tragacanth, mastic. 22. Wine with swines flesh or harts fich. 23. To drink the first cup at supper ho and half an hour before supper something hot and ardatised. 24. Chalybeates four times a year. 25. Pilulæ ex tribus, once in two mont, but after the mass has been macerated in oil of a onds. 26. Heroic desires. 27. Bathing of the feet once in a month, wh lye ex sale nigro, camomile, sweet marjoram, nel, sage, and a little aqua vitæ. 28. To provide always an apt breakfast. 29. To beat the flesh before roasting of it. 30. Maceration in pickles. 31. Agitation of beer by ropes, or in whe barrows. 32. That diet is good which makes lean, and the Consider of the ways to effect it. renews. MEDICAL RECEIPTS OF THE LORD BACON His Lordship's usual receipt for the Gout. which he refers, Nat. Hist. Cent. I. N. 60. 1. The poultis. Το roses an ounce; let it be spread upon a linen cloth, and applied lukewarm, and continued for three hours space. 2. The bath or fomentation. Take of sage leaves half a handful; of the root of hemlock sliced six drams; of briony roots half an ounce; of the leaves of red roses two pugils; let them be boiled in a pottle of water, wherein steel hath been quenched, till the liquor come to a quart. After the straining, put in half a handful of bay salt. Let it be used with scarlet cloth, or scarlet wool, dipped in the liquor hot, and so renewed seven times; all in the space of a quarter of an hour, or little more. 3. The plaster. Take emplastrum diachalciteos, as much as is sufficient for the part you mean to cover. Let it be dissolved with oil of roses, in such a consistence as will stick; and spread upon a piece of holland, and applied. His Lordship's broth and fomentation for the stone. The broth. Take one dram of eryngium roots, cleansed and sliced; and boil them together with a chicken. In the end, add of elder flowers, and marigold flowers together, one pugil; of angelica-seed half a dram, of raisins of the sun stoned, fifteen; of rosemary, thyme, mace, together, a little. In six ounces of this broth or thereabouts, let there be dissolved of white cremor tartari three grains. Every third or fourth day, take a small toast of manchet, dipped in oil of sweet almonds new drawn, and sprinkled with a little loaf sugar. You may make the broth for two days, and take the onehalf every day. If you find the stone to stir, forbear the toast for a course or two. The intention of this broth is, not on to void, but to undermine the quarry of the stones a in the kidneys. mallows, one ounce; of anise and fennel seeds, together, one ounce and a half; of flax seed two drams. Make a decoction in spring water. The second receipt, showing the way of making a certain ointment, which his Lordship called Unguentum fragrans, sive Romanum, the fragrant or Roman unguent. Take of the fat of a deer half a pound; of oil of sweet almonds two ounces: let them be set upon a very gentle fire, and stirred with a stick of juniper till they are melted. Add of root of flower-de-luce powdered, damask roses powdered, together, one dram; of myrrh dissolved in rose-water half a dram; of cloves half a scruple; of civet four grains; of musk six grains; of oil of mace expressed one drop; as much of rose-water as sufficeth to keep the unguent from being too thick. Let all these be put together in a glass, and set upon the embers for the space of an hour, and stirred with a stick of juniper. Note, that in the confection of this ointment, there was not used above a quarter of a pound, and a tenth part of a quarter of deer's suet: and that all the ingredients, except the oil of almonds, were doubled when the ointment was half made, because the fat things seemed to be too predominant. The third receipt. A manus Christi for the Take of the best pearls very finely pulverised, one dram; of sal nitre one scruple; of tartar two scruples; of ginger and galingal, together, one ounce and a half; of calamus, root of enula campana, nutmeg, together, one scruple and a half; of amber sixteen grains; of the best musk ten grains; with rosewater and the finest sugar, let there be made a manus Christi. The fourth receipt. A secret for the stomach. Take lignum aloes in gross shavings, steep them in sack, or alicant, changed twice, half an hour at a time, till the bitterness be drawn forth. Then take the shavings forth, and dry them in the shade, and beat them to an excellent powder. Of that powder, with the syrup of citron, make a small pill, to be | taken before supper. WORKS MORAL. A FRAGMENT OF THE COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. TO THE LORD MOUNTJOYE. I SEND you the last part of the best book of Aristotle of Stagira, who, as your Lordship knoweth, goeth for the best author. But saving the civil respect which is due to a received estimation, the man being a Grecian, and of a hasty wit, having hardly a discerning patience, much less a teaching patience, hath so delivered the matter, as I am glad to do the part of a good house-hen, which without any strangeness will sit upon pheasants' eggs. And yet perchance, some that shall compare my lines with Aristotle's lines, will muse by what art, or rather by what revelation, I could draw these conceits out of that place. But I, that should know best, do freely acknowledge, that I had my light from him; for where he gave me not matter to perfect, at the least he gave me occasion to invent. Wherein as I do him right, being myself a man that am as free from envying the dead in contemplation, as from envying the living in action or fortune: so yet, nevertheless, still I say, and I speak it more largely than before, that in perusing the writings of this person so much celebrated, whether it were the impediment of his wit, or that he did it upon glory and affectation to be subtile, as one that if he had seen his own conceits clearly and perspicuously delivered, perhaps would have been out of love with them himself; or else upon policy, to keep himself close, as one that had been a challenger of all the world, and had raised infinite contradiction to what cause soever it is to be ascribed, I do not find him to deliver and unwrap himself well of that he seemeth to conceive; nor to be a master of his own knowledge. Neither do I for my part also, though I have brought in a new manner of handling this argument, to make it pleasant and lightsome, pretend so to have overcome the nature of the subject; but that the full understanding and use of it will be somewhat dark, and best pleasing the taste of such wits as are patient to stay the digesting and soluting unto themselves of that which is sharp and subtile. Which was the cause, joined with the love and honour which I bear to your Lordship, as the person I know to have many virtues, and an excellent order of them, which moved me to dedicate this writing to your Lordship after the ancient manner: choosing both a friend, and one to whom I conceived the argument was agreeable. OF THE COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. IN deliberatives, the point is, what is good, and what is evil; and of good, what is greater, and of evil, what is less. So that the persuader's labour is, to make things appear good or evil, and that in higher or lower degree; which as it may be performed by true and solid reasons, so it may be represented also by colours, popularities, and circumstances; which are of such force, as they sway the ordinary judgment either of a weak man, or of a wise man, not fully and considerately attending and pondering the mat ter. Besides their power to alter the nature of the subject in appearance, and so to lead to error, they are of no less use to quicken and strengthen the opinions and persuasions which are true; for reasons plainly delivered, and always after one manner, especially with fine and fastidious minds, enter but heavily and dully: whereas if they be varied, and have more life and vigour put into them by these forms and insinuations, they cause a stronger apprehension, and many times suddenly win the mind to a resolution. Lastly, to make a true and safe |