430 MEDICAL REMAINS. 



generous wines, fragrant apples, rose, rosa moschata, 

 cloves, lign-aloes, mace, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, 

 galingal, vinegar, kermes-berry, herba moschata, beto- 

 ny, white sanders, camphire, flowers of heliotrope, pen- 

 ny-royal, scordium, opium corrected, white pepper, 

 nasturtium, white and red bean, castum dulce, dacty- 

 lus, pine, fig, egg-shell, vinum malvaticum, ginger, kid- 

 neys, oysters, ere vises (or river crabs), seed of nettle, 

 oil of sweet almonds, sesamium oleum, asparagus, bul- 

 bous roots, onions, garlick, eruca, daucus seed, eringo, 

 siler montanus, the smell of musk, cynethi odor, cara- 

 way 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 



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 inter- 

 change it every other two days, with the juice of pome- 

 granates expressed, with a little cloves, and rind of 

 citron. 



3. To order the taking of the maceration 2 as fol- 

 loweth. 



1 Baconiana, p. 167. 



2 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. Rawlev, towards the end. Note by Tenison. 



