Manuscripts on materia medica, 17th-18th century. 1976-77/m/21, Countway Library of Medicine.

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Turpentin [?]8 masticke thus anna ℥4 Laudanum castorium dtes stones anna ℥ij clean scraped and rasped daysis rootes scraped and brused aloes ℥ij angelica rootes cleane picked and broysed laptanume anna ℥ij hony ℥ij pul thos that will and stipe all in your turpentin and hony 24 oures and distill in a oven or sand fornis and soe draw it over 2 times and scurculate it in the same furnas

The vitue of this balme being taken every morning vi dropes in a spoonefull of wine it precereth on frome poyson all soe it preserves a man from corrupt and poyson ayre and especially to be used in time of ye plage or pestilentes and for on ye is bruised in any parte let them straygh way anoynt the place and it shall assuage the swelling of it and take away the blacke and it is good for the stich in the side being anoyned and vi dropes put in to a fistila every daye doth heale it and it heall all windi sores ould ulceres and for the palsi let the party vi dropes morning and eving in four spoon fulles of win probatum este

Magisterium Tartari

Sal tarta iiij ounces put it in to a body whose head hath a hole one the topp and put uppon it aqua vita rectifide iij ounces and still it from it soe often tell it remaine in forme of oyle but if you but if you take new aqua vita every time it is the bete doce is 30 dropes

A exlent vomet. Take and dissolve white vitroll in raine wator then filter it then evaporat the wator away tell you see the vitroell have a skim or barke one it set it in some oluld selar for iiij or v dayes and it wille com as christall dissoled again as be fore and for the iij time evaperat and it will be com as calx for dry in a moderate heat then then then dissolve iij times more in rose wator and dry dos ℈ s in som convenint vehicle