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old or cold, make Wine of any other herb, 
the virtues of which you desire; and make 
it and take it in the same manner. 
Vinum Cerassorum Nigrorum. 
Or Wine of Black Cherries. 
College.] Take a gallon of Black Cher- 
ries, keep it in a vessel close stopped till it 
begins to work, then filter it, and an ounce 
of Sugar being added to every pound, let 
it pass through Hippocrates’ sleeve, and 
keep in a vessel close stopped for use. 
Vinum Helleboratum. 
Or Helleborated Wine. 
College.| Take of white Hellebore cut 
small, four ounces, Spanish Wine two 
pounds, steep it in the sun in a phial close 
stopped, in the dog days, or other hot 
weather. 
, Vinum Rubellum. 
College.| Take of Stibium, in powder, 
one ounce, Cloves sliced two drams, Claret 
Wine two pounds, keep it in a phial close 
shut. 
Vinum Benedictum. 
College.| Take of Crocus Metallorum, 
in powder, one ounce, Mace one dram, 
Spanish Wine one pound and an half, steep 
it. 
Vinum Antimoniale. 
Or Antimonial Wine. 
College.| Take of Regulus of Antimony, 
in powder, four ounces, steep it in three 
pounds of white Wine in a glass well 
stopped, after the first shaking let the Reg- 
ulus settle. 
Culpeper.| These last mentioned are 
vomits, and vomits are fitting medicines for 
but a few, the mouth being ordained to take 
in nourishment, not to cast out excrements, 
_ and to regulate a man’s body in vomiting; 
_ and doses of vomits require a deeper study 
in physic, than I doubt the generality of 
people yet have; I omit it therefore at this 
time, not because I grudge it my country, 
but because I would not willingly have them 
selves a a: I — some 
teach them in what discases vomits may be 
used, and then, and not till then, the use of 
vomits. 
Vinum Scilliticum. 
Or Wine of Squills. 
College.| Take of a white Squill of the 
mountains, gathered about the rising of the 
dog star, cut it in thin pieces, and dried for 
a month, one pound, put it in a glass bottle, 
and pour to it eight pounds of French Wine, 
and when it hath stood so four days, take 
out the Squill. 
The virtues of this are the same with 
Vinegar of Squills, only it is hotter. 
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PHYSICAL VINEGARS. 
Acetum distillatum. 
Or distilled Vinegar. 
College.] Fill a glass or stone alembick 
with the best Vinegar to the third part, 
separate the flegm with a gentle fire, then 
encrease the fire by degrees, and perform 
the work. 
Acetum Rosarum. 
Or Rose Vinegar. 
College.]| Take of red Rose buds, 
gathered in a dry time, the whites cut off, 
dried in the shade three or four days, one 
pound, Vinegar eight sextaries, set them in 
the sun forty days,then strain out the Roses, 
and repeat the infusion with fresh ones. 
After the same manner is made Vinegar 
of Elder flowers, Rosemary flowers, and 
Clove-gilliflowers. — 
Culpeper.| For the virtues of all Vine- 
gars, take this one only observation, They 
carry the same virtues with the flowers 
whereof they are made, only as we said of 
Wines, that they were better for cold bodies 
than the bare simples whereof they are 
made; so are Vinegars for hot bodies. 
‘Besides, Vinegars are often, nay, most com- 
monly used externally, viz. to bathe the 
place, then look amongst the simples, and 
see what place of the body the simple is 
