Di're&zons for making of Syrups, SjC. SoS 



the scum ariseth take it off ; let it stand over the fire till no 

 more scum. arise; when you have your juice clarified, cast away 

 the scum as a thing of no use. 



4. When you have thus clarified it, you have two ways to pre- 

 serve it all the year. 



(1.) When 'it is cold, put it into a glass, and put so much oil 

 on it as will cover it to the thickness of two fingers ; the oil will 

 swim at the top, and so keep the air from coming to putrify it : 

 When you intend to use it, pour it into a porringer, and if any oil 

 come out with it, you may easily scum it off with a spoon, and 

 put the iuice you use not, into the glass again, it will quickly sink 

 under the oil. This is the first way. _ 



(2.) The second way is a little more difficult, and the juice of 

 fruits is usually preserved this way. When you have clarified it, 

 boil it over the fire, till (being cold) it be of the thickness of ho- 

 ney : this is most commonly used for diseases of the mouth, and 

 is called Roba and Saba. And thus much for the first section, . 

 the second follows. 



SECT. II. 



Tlie way of making and keeping all necessary Compounds. 



CHAP. I. Of Distilled IVaters^. 

 HITHERTO we have spoke of medicines which consist in 

 their own nature, which authors vulgarly call Simples, though 

 something improperly ; for in truth, nothing is simple but pure 

 elements i all things else are compounded of them. We come 

 now to treat of artificial medicines, in the form of which (because 

 we must begin somewhere) we shall place distilled waters j ia 

 which consider, 



1. Waters are distilled of herbs, flowers, fruits, and roots. 



2. We treat not of strong waters, but of cold, as being to act 

 Galen's part, and not Paracelsus's. 



. 3. The herbs ought to be distilled when they are in the greatest 

 vigour, and so ought the flowers also. 



4. The vulgar way of distinctions which people use, because 

 they know no betti r, is in a pewter still ; and although distilled 

 waters are the weakest of artificial medicines, and good for little, 

 but mixtures of other medicines, vet t ev are weaker by many de- 

 grees, than they vvould be werethey distilled in sand. If I thoughfc 

 It not impossible to leach you the way of distilling in sand, I- 

 would attempt it. 



5. When you have distilled your water, put it into a glass, co- 

 vered over with a paper, pricked full of hojes, so that the excre- 

 mentitious and fiery vapours may exhale, which cause that settling 

 in distilled waters, called the Mother, which coErupt them, tbea 

 cover it close, and keep it for your use. 



