THE COMPLETE HERBAL. 



it pass through Hippocrates' sleeve, and and when it hath stood so four days, take 

 keep in a vessel close stopped for use. ; out the Squill. 



Vinum Helleloratum. The virtues of this are the same with 



Or Helleborated Wine. : Vinegar of Squills, only it is hotter. 



College.] Take of white Hellebore cut * 

 small, four ounces, Spanish Wine two j 



peunds, steep it in the sun in a phial close | PHYSICAL VINEGARS 



stopped, in the dog days, or other hotj 

 weather. Acetum distillatum. 



Vinum Rulellum. Or distilled Vinegar. 



College.] Take of Stibium, in powder, \ College] Fill a glass or stone alembick 

 one ounce, Cloves sliced two drams, Claret J with the best Vinegar to the third part, 

 Wine two pounds, keep it in a phial close i separate the flegm with a gentle fire, then 

 shut. j encrease the fire by degrees, and perform 



Vinum Benedict urn. j the work. 



College] Take of Crocus Metallorum, j Acetum Rosarum. 



in powder, one ounce, Mace one dram, j Or Rose Vinegar. 



Spanish Wine one pound and an half, steep \ College] Takeof red Rose buds, gathered 

 it. :in a dry time, the whites cut off, dried in 



Vinum Antimoniale. : the shade three or four days, one pound, 



Or Antimonial Wine. j Vinegar eight sextaries, set them in the suu 



College] Take of Regulus of Antimony, ! 

 in powder, four ounces, steep it in three 



forty days, then strain out the Roses, and 

 repeat the infusion with fresh ones. 



pounds of white Wine in a glass well stopped, After the same manner is made Vinegar 

 after the first shaking let the Regulus settle. \ of Elder flowers, Rosemary flowers, and 



Culpeper] These last mentioned are $ Clove-gilliflowers. 



vomits, and vomits are fitting medicines for i Culpeper] For the virtues of all Vine- 

 but a few, the mouth being ordained to : gars, take this one only observation, They 

 take in nourishment, not to cast out ex- 1 carry the same virtues with the flowers 

 crements, and to regulate a man's body in j whereof they are made, only as we said of 

 vomiting ; and doses of vomits require a ! Wines, that they were better for cold bodies 

 deeper study in physic, than I doubt the ; then the bare simples whereof they are 

 generality of people yet have; I omit it j made ; so are Vinegars for hot bodies, 

 therefore at this time, not because I grudge i Besides, Vinegars are often, nay, most corn- 

 it my country, but because I would not monly used externally, viz. to bathe the 

 willingly have them do themselves a mis- .; place, then look amongst the simples, and 

 chief, I shall shortly teach them in what 1 see what place of the body the simple is 

 diseases vomits may be used, and then, and j appropriated to, and you cannot but know 

 not till then, the use of vomits. j both what Vinegar to use, and to what place 



Vinum Scilliticum. \ to apply it. 



Or Wine of Squills. Acetum Scilliticum. 



College] Take of a white Squill of the \ Or Vinegar of Squils. 



mountains, gathered about the rising of the ; College] Take of that part of the Squill 

 dog star, cut it in thin pieces, and dried for j \vhich is between the outward bark and the 

 a month, one pound, put it in a glass bottle, \ bottom, cut in thin slices, and placed thirty 

 and pour to it eight pounds of French Wine, \ or for ly days in the sun or some remiss 



