MEDICAL REMAINS. 227 



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 spoons 

 ful 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 lit 

 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. 



Breakfast preservative against the gout and rheums. 



To take once in the month at least, and for 

 two days together, one grain of castorei in my 

 ordinary broth. 



