The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

  • Ambroise Paré
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1649
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Credit: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson [and in part by G. Baker] Whereunto are added three tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, and nerves. With large figures. ; Also a table of the bookes and chapters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of making tc- jhe flelhmuft bee beaten and cut thin, and lo thruft through with a double thred, fo Li- thereof may touch each others then put them into aglafs, and let the thred hang out i fo hop up the glafs clofe with a linnen cloth, Gotten or Tow, and lute it up with nafte made of meal and the whites of eggs ; then fet it up to the neck in a kettle of water,but fo that it touch not the bottom,but let it bee kept upright by the tormerly-defcribed means^then make a gentle fire there-under,until the conteined flelh by Ipng boiling (hall bee dilTolved into juice, and that will commonly bee in fom four hours (pace. 1 his beeing don, let the fife bee taken from under the kettle, but take not forth the glafs before the water bee cold, left it bee¬ ing hot (hould bee broken by the fudden appulf of the cold air. Wherefore when as it is cold^ let it bee opened, and the thred with the pieces of fle(h bee drawn forth, fo that onely the juice may bee left remining ; then drain it through abag, and aromatize it with Sugar and Cinna- mom adding alittle juice ofCitron,Verjuiccor Vineger,as it (hall bed like the patient’s palate. After this manner you may quickly, earily,arid without great coft have and prepare all forts ofreftauratives afwellmedicated as fimple.But the fisree and facultie of purging medicines is ex- trafted after a clean contrarie manner then the oils and waters which are drawn of Aromatick things as Sage,Rofemarie,Tyme,Anifeeds,Fennel,Cloves,Cinnamom,Nucrmgs,and the like. For the ftrength of thefe.as that which isfubtil and aierie, (lie’s upwards m diftillationjbutthe ftrength of purging things, as Turbith, Agarick Rubarb and the like, fubfide m the bottom. For the purgative facultie of thefe purgers infeparably adhere’s to the bodies and fubftances. ^ Now forTweet waters and fuch as ferv to fmaoth the skin of the face, they may beediftil- i- ledin like as Rofe-water. CHAP. vni. How to dijiil Aqua viu or theffirits of Wine. lAke of good White or Claret-wine or Sack which is not fowr nor muftie, norother- * wife cornipt, or of the Lees,that quantitie which may ferv to fil the velTel wherein you -niake the diftillation to a third part; then put on your head furnilhed with the nofc Of pipe and fo make your diftillation in Balneo Mari£. The oftner it is diftilled, or (as they term £n itlreftified, the more noble and eifeftual it becom’s. Therefore fom diftil it ftven times over, rcaificd. ' the firft diftillation it may fuffice to draw a fourth or third part of the whole j to wit, of twentie four pintes of Wine or Lees, draw fix or eight pintes of diftilled liquor. At the fécond time the half part of that is three or four pintes. At the third diftillation the half part again, that is, two pints ; fo that the oftner you diftil it over, the lefs liquor you have, but it will bee a great deal the more efficacious. I do well like that the firft diftillation bee made in A(hes ; the fécond in Balneum^ MarU. To conclude , that aqua viu is to bee approoved of, neither is it anie oftner to bee diftilled,which put into a (poon or faucer, and there (et on fire,burn’s wholly away and leav’s no liquor,or moifture in the bot¬ tom of the veffel ; if you drop a drop of oil into this fame water, it continually fal’t to the bottom j or if you drop a drop into the palm of your hand,it will quickly vanifh away,which are two other notes of the probation of this liquor, faculties q'faculties and effeRs of aqua vita are innumerable, it is good againft the epilepfie and all cold di(eafes,ita(rwage’s the pains of the teeth, it is good forpuiiRures and wounds of the Nervs, faintings, fwoonings, gangreens and mortification, both of it’s fle(h,as alfo put to o- ther medicines for a vehicle. . • - r There is this difference between the diftilling of wine and y ineger, wine feeing ot an aie¬ rie and vaporous fubftance, that which is the beft and moft elfeflual in it, to wit, the aierie and fierie liquor, corn’s from it prefently at the firft diftillation.Therefore the refidue that remain’s in the bottom o f the veflel, is of a cold drie and acrid nature ; on the contrarie,the water that corn’s firft from V ineger beeing diftilled is infipid and flegmatick. For Vineger is mack by the corruption of wine, and the fegregation of the fierie and aerie parts ; wherefore the Wine becoming fowr, there remain’s nothing of the former fubftance but phlegm ; wherefore fee¬ ing phlegm is chiefly predominant in Vineger, it firft rife’s in diftillation- Wherefore hee that hope’s to diftil thefpirit of Vineger, hee muft caft away the phlegmatick fubftance,that firft fubftance that firft rife’s,and when by his tafte hee (hall perceiv the fpirit of the yinepr, hee (hall keep the fire there-under,until the flowing liquor (hall becom as thick as honic; then muft the fire bee taken away, otherwile the burning of it will cauf a great flinch. ^ The veffcls fit to diftil aqua vita and Vineger are divers, as an Alembick or Retort fet in fand ofwmeand“orA(hcs;aCopper orbrafs-bottomof a Stil, with a head thereto, having a pi]^ commtng Vineger It forth thereof which run’s into a worm, or pipefaft’ned in a barrel or veÆl filled with cold- water, and having the lowei; end comming forth thereof, whole figure wee (hall give you when as wee com to fpeak of the drawing of oils out of vegetables. . / \ \ CHA-