Chap. 65 3 . Unglijh Herbs . 
Sponge burnt up to a Coal 3 Ounces : Cuttle Fijb 
Bone Calcin'd , Egg-Jhells Calcin'd , &// Gm, Galls, 
Ginger , Pepper , Pellitory of Spain , <wm, an 
Ounce : all being in fine Pouder , w/at //;£■/# /0£o 
with the Water Difiilled from the aforefaid 
Sponge , which deficcate or dry by degrees. It cures 
the Kings-Evil, being taken for a Month together, 
half a Dram at a time mixt with half an Ounce 
of White Sugar-, beginning to take it when the 
Moon begins to decreafe, or prefently after the 
Full. It alio is faid to cure Pufhes, Botches, 
Boils, and Swelling Pimples in the Face and other 
Parts. 
XII. The AJhes. They are made by a fimple and 
naked Calcination in an open Fire ■, or of the Caput 
Mart, at the bottom of the Retort after the Spirit, and 
Volatile Salt are afcended or drawn off. Mixed 
with a little Wine, it is ufed to clear the Eye- 
light, and to cure them when Blood-fliot, or 
troubled with a Rheum or Watering. 
XIII. T. he Pouder of the fmall Stones in the 
Sponge. It is given to fuch as are troubled with 
Stone, Gravel, Sand, and Tartarous Mucilage in 
the Reins and Bladder : to help to break the Stone, 
and to caufe it to pafs away with the Urine. 
Dofe a Dram morning and night in a Glafs of 
White Wine, &c. 
XIV. The Volatile Spirit , Salt and Oil of Sponge. 
They are made by dHiillation in a Glafs Retort $ 
Take as much Sponge as you pleafe , cut it very 
fmall , put it into the Retort , which place in a clofe 
Reverberatory , with its receiver : Lute the jun- 
cture well , and give lire Gradatim, like as in di- 
ftillation of Tartar -, and continue to increafe it by 
little and little , till the white and Oily Clouds be- 
gin to come , and that you fee the Volatile Salt does 
fublime , and flick to the fides of the Receiver 
continue the fire in the fame degree , till all is 
come forth, and the Receiver grows clear of its felf 
Then wafie the fire , and all being cold ', take away 
the Veffels , pour out the Spirit and Volatile Salt 
together , and feparate the Oil by a Funnel , or fome 
Cotton , whioh keep in a Glafs by its felf Put the 
Spirit and Volatile Salt into a low Glafs Body , and 
reClify them in Sand, keeping them together. This 
Spirit is a Angular Lithontriptick, or breaker of 
the Stone. The Salt alfo is good to break the 
Stone in the Reins and Bladder. It is powerful 
alfo to difeufs and cure all Strumous Swelling or 
Kings-Evil, in the Neck or any other part, being 
given from gr. 6. ad 1 6. in any proper Vehicle. This 
Volatile Salt and Spirit of Sponge are faid to be 
fome of the greateftSpecificks inNaturefor theCure 
of the King-Evil, being given morning and night 
in the proportion aforefaid, in any proper Vehicle 
Univerfals being premifed. And indeed the Spi- 
rit, Volatile Salt, and foetid Oil of Sponges, are 
not only excellent againft the Evil-, but alfo to 
diffolve and cure the Bronchocele , which is a Bunch 
or great Swelling round the Throat, to open Ob- 
ftru&ions in the Reins, Ureters, -and Bladder, to 
break the Stone, and to expel it, as alfo Sand, 
Gravel, and the like from the Urinary parts. By 
following thefe' Medicines for fome time, you 
will daily and evidently fee thefe Scrophulous 
Strumous, and Bronchocele Tumors to decreafe and 
vanifh to nothing. In the Difiillation, part of the 
Volatile Salt will arife and flick to the Top and 
Neck of the Retort , and part of it will mix, and 
be diffolve d in the Spirit. Tou may 1 edify each a- 
part if you fo pleafe, or diffolve all the Salt in 
the Spirit, and r edify them together from the Olea- 
ginous particles, as we have in many places taught 
in Our Seplafium, or Druggifls Shop. The Cal- 
cin d Sponge at the bottom of the Retort may be re- 
i U< c\ y? Pouder or Afbes for the purpofes at 
sett. All. aforegoing and it may alfo ferve to fton 
violent fluxes of the Blood. From the Caput 
Mortuum, as it is left in the bottom you will get 
but little fixt Salt , without a new anl open Calci- 
nation, and therefore it is neceffary to Calcine it a- 
gain m a Crucible till it is white, after whioh yc , u 
may draw forth the faid fixt Salt ajter the Vul- 
gar Method. This fixt Salt is of the nature of 
other fixt Alcalies, as Salt of Tartar, Salt of 
OiHer-Jhells, and the like, and may be given in 
the fame Cafes A gr. 12. ad 24. in Arfmarr Par- 
'll or Onion Waters, againft Qbttruaions in the 
■veins, Ureters and Bladder, Stone and Gravel 
and to abforb Acid humors, which are the caufes 
of many pernicious Difeafes. See more at large 
hereof in the Third Edition of Our Pharm. Ba- 
teana. Lib. i.«Cap. 2. Seft. 33. and Cap. 10. 
Sect. 40. where you will find much iacisfa- 
etion. 
XV. The Compound Pouder. Take Pouder of 
Sponges, Pouder of Sows or Hog-Lice, ana an 
Ounce, Pouder s of Crabs-Eyes and Winter Cher- 
ries, ana, half an Ounce, mix them. Dofe from 
2 Scruples to 4, or a Dram and half in Wine, Ale 
Arfmart or Parfly Water, fweetned with Syrup of 
Maifh Mallows, againft the Stone, Gravel, Stran- 
gury, Kings-Evil, Bronchocele, E 7 c. to be given 
morning, and night, &e. 
XVI. Pledgets or Tents made of Sponge. The 
Sponge being Dipt into a thin Gum Water , is then 
to be fqueez’d hard, and prejl ftrongly in a Prefs 
and Jo kept till they are perfettly dry, and then to 
be cut out into Tents, or Pledgets, of what form 
or bignefs you pleafe. They are put into hollow 
Ulcers which ate ready to clofe, before they are 
throughly cleanfed, and to open and widen the 
Orifices of Fiftulas, hollow Ulcers, &e. a Thred 
being firft tyed to them before they are put in 
thereby to pull them out again. ’ 
CHAP DCLIV. 
Of SPURGE Carden. 
1. 'T'tfE Names. It is called by the Arabians, 
1 Mandana, and Mahendanc : in Greek, 
A»'0ue« : in Latine, Lathyris, and Cataputia minor 
(becaufe the Seed of Ricinus or Pa/ma-ChriJU in 
Chap. 616. following, is called Cataputia major) 
and in Englifh, Garden Spurge. 
II. The Kinds. There are above half a hundred 
particular forts of this Plant, but we in this work 
(hall not take notice of above Eignt Generick 
Species thereof, and under each of their Titles 
we fhall Treat only of fuch as either grow and are 
Nurft up in Our Gardens, or Grow Wild abroad 
in Our Fields, Woods, Marfties, &c. or are found 
growing in Our Weft-lndia Plantations, and Ame- 
rican lfianis . 1. Adt. Lathyris, Cataputia mi- 
nor, Garden Spurge, of which in this Chapter. 
2. 17 /tuW, Pityufa , Efula , and Efula minor 
fmall Spurge, of which in Chap. d;;. 3. Cherva 
Kbu, w V.ehV/1, Cici, and Croton, Ricinus, Palma- 
Chrijii, Great Spurge, of which in Chap. 6^6. 
4. eouUeja, Mezereon , Chamelea Germanica, Thy- 
me fa, Spurge Olive, of which in Chap. A57. ;. 
Ti 5 mma©- ^csKi'a*, Tithymalus , Titbymalus Chara- 
