234 MEDICAL REMAINS. 



of nettle, oil of sweet almonds, sesaminum oleum, as 

 paragus, 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 be 

 tween sleeps. 



2. To continue my broth with nitre ; but to in 

 terchange 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* as fol- 

 loweth. 



To add to the maceration six grains of cremor 

 tartari, and as much enula. 



To add to the oxymel some infusion of fennel- 

 roots in the vinegar, and four grains of angelica-seed, 

 and juice of lemons, a third part to the vinegar. 



* 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, to 

 wards the end. 



