THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



t pass through Hippocrates' sleeve, and 

 <eep iu a vessel close stopped for use. 



Vin urn Helleboratitm . 

 Or Helleborated Wine. 

 College.] Take of white Hellebore cut? 

 iinall, four ounces, Spanish Wine two I 



pounds, steep it in the sun in a phial close I PHYSICAL VINEGARS 



stopped, in the dog days, or other hot* 



and when it hath stood so four days, take 

 out the Squill. 



The virtues of this are the same with 

 Vinegar of Squills, only it is hotter. 



weather. 



Vimim Riwellum. 



Acetitm distillatum. 

 Or distilled Vinegar. 



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



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



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



shut. jencrease the fire by degrees, and perform 



Vimim Benedictuin. the work. 



College] Take of Crocus Metallorum, { Acetum Rosarum. 



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



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

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



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



Or Antimonial Wine. ; Vinegar eight sextaries, set them in the sun 



College] -Take of Regulus of Antimony, j forty days, then strain out the Roses, and 

 in powder, four ounces, steep it in three j repeat the infusion with fresh ones, 

 poundsof white Wine in a glass well stopped, ! After the same manner is made Vinegar 

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



Culpeper] These last mentioned are j Clove-gilliflowers. 



vomits, and vomits are fitting medicines for : 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- 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 { made ; so are Vinegars for hot bodies, 

 therefore at this time, not because I grudge ; 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 J see what place of the body the simple is 

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

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



Vimim Scillilicum. \ 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 j College] Take of that part of ihe Squill 

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

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

 ap I pour to it eight pounds of French Wine, | or forty days in the sun or some remiss 



