The Hartlib Papers

Title:Fragment, Recipes In English & Latin
Dating:undated
Ref:30/1/15A-15B
[30/1/15B]

Then putt to the sugar candy all the dry materialls before directed and make all as fine as possible you can, then upon a great hollow grinding stone mingle the tinctures, & drye things together (which must be done by a strong hand used to that of labour.) whilst this is a grinding, putt of the syrrup of limmons & red roses equall parts unto it, else it will be so drye, that it will neither grind nor mingle.
   Sal corallorum ita paratur ad hoc cordiale & Corall. [uncia] viij[altered] impone catino calcinatorio non lutato saltem operculo tecto & in formo reverberat. vel clibano vitreario 24 horis calcina, ut (vel donec:) corallia evadant alba nivis instar; hoc facto injice in 6 libras civlies [acetum destillatum?]o fortissimi, in philolam longi colli, & clauso artificio beneficio alterius vitri immissi, bulli igne [arena?] per horas 24 absque intermissione, quo temporis spatio [acetum destillatum?] rubedine [catchword: tinge]
[30/1/15A]

tingetur, quod frigefactum decanta, filba & coagula.   Perlas solutas in [acetum destillatum?] poteris oleo [illeg. symbol]li vel sulphuris præcipitare quæ præparatio est optima existimata. Verum Eques Robertus Killegrew, a quæ Rowleighus accepit hoc cordiale , Perlas succo limonum solvebat. Hoc cordiali stupendæ curæ sunt peractæ. Curati sunt eo Agonizontes, Dysenterici, Pleuritici, febri ardenti laborantes desperatè, dicam Kalten brabet gelegen &c:
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Allij caput integrum obvolvatur [butyro?] & deglutiatur in colica.
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Chelidonia plantis pedum applicata perhibetur ad se trahere totam flavedinem.
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Diascordium optimum remedium est in Dysenteria maligna, si exhibeatur vel per clysterem injiciatur
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