The treasure of Euonymus conteyninge the vvonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintesse[n]ce, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Wherunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art. Translated (with great diligence, et laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morvvying felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford.

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Author:	Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
Title:	The treasure of Euonymus conteyninge the vvonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintesse[n]ce, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Wherunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art. Translated (with great diligence, et laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morvvying felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford.
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Alternate titles:	Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. English
Subject terms:	Medicine -- Early works to 1800. Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800. Distillation -- Early works to 1800.
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Iohn Daye to the Christi∣an Reader.

The preface of the author to the Reader.

The authors alledged in this Boke.

A Table of the chapters con∣teined in this Booke.

❧ VVhat Destillation is, and of diuers formes and kyndes.

¶ Of the vertues of licores destilled generally.

❧ Of the manifold vse of lyquors destilled, both in physick, & otherwyse.

¶ A way to purge and make clean troubled waters, out of Bulcasis.

¶ Of Balneum Mariae generally, and of those de∣stillations that be done by vapors of hoat water and in horse dong.

Certain excellent simple vvaters destilled in Balneo Mariae, first of plantes, then of beests.

Absinthium.

Alsine.

Caepa.

Cerasus.

Fragaria.

Fraxinus.

Helxines.

Hieracium.

Hissopus.

Intybum.

Lauendula.

Iuglans.

Orchis.

Persica.

Petroselinum.

Plantago.

Pulegium.

Rapum.

Rosa,

❧ Of Roose vvater out of Bulcasis.

Saluiae.

Scabiosa.

Sedum.

Solanum.

Tilia.

Of vvaters destilled of beastes, or of their partes, or excrementes, and first of all of the hoole beastes.

Of vessels and diuers instruments belonging to destellation.

Of the matter for vessels of destil∣lacion: and first against leaden and brasen vessels.

Of Fornaces, &c.

❧ Hovve to close vessels and to defende them, both with clay and otherwyse.

Of the preparation for destil∣lation.

Of the rectification of liquors destilled.

Destillacion by a Filter or a list of Wollen cloth.

Of burninge vvater or singleAqua vitae, and of the strength ther∣of, and manifold vse.

Of the strengthes and vertues of Aqua vitae, in the boke of Arnold, De Villa noua, which is written of Aqua vitae.

Of such thinges as be destilled dry, put into any liquor.

Of quint essence of remedies.

Hovv the quintessens of all things may be drawn out, to minister them or the vertue of them, to mennes bodies: oute of the first boke of Lullus, intreatinge of quintessene.

❧ Of the dravvyng out of the quint essence from wyne, out of Vlstadius and Raymund Lullus.

Hovv qvint essence may be dravven out more easely and with les cost, for poore mens sakes, out of the same.

❧ In vvhat places Vlstadius in his heauen, teacheth to drawe out diuers quint essences.

A merueilous vvater that hathe a contrary operation to Aqua vitae which may be called cold quint essence.

Of the extracting and dravvyng forth of all the vertues of Chelidonia or selandine: by the whiche example, euery man of any vnderstanding, may vse to drawe out the vertues also of other planetes.

Hovv quint essence is dravvn out of frutes, as Appels, Peres, plummes, Cheries, Chestnuts. &c. out of Vlstadi{us}.

Oute of Floures, herbes, and rootes.

Of quint essence of mans bloud, egges, fleshe, and hony.

Of quint essence of metals.

Of the dravving out of quint essence from Antimonia, lead, white lead outof Vlstadius.

Of diuers kindes of Aqua vitae composed.

Aqua vite against pestilence, proued and vsed with great and marueilous succes by a certain physicion of our tyme of Solodurn in Heluetia the yere of our Lord. 2547. In so much that scarsly euery tenth of them that receiued it, died.

Tvvo compositions of Aqua vite oute of the boke of Raimundus Lullus, of waters.

VVhat medicines be mixt vvith Aqua vitae, without any destillation, first within the body, then without.

¶ Hereafter will I put the vse of burning water, with other medicines without the body.

A vvater to vvashe the partes ta∣ken with the Palsey.

Of destilled vvaters composed, but wyth other, then wyth Aqua vitae.

Certaine composed vvaters, to be destilled other of the medicines by them selues, or wyth well spryng water: oute of the treatise of Rogerius. 4. cha. 6.

Of vvaters of vertues or golden waters and certain other composed of many medicines, destilled with wine.

A vvater of certaine remedies for shortnes of breath and harde fetchinge of a mannes winde.

A vvater for the stone, described by Epiphanius a practicioner.

Certain vvaters composed, destilled with vinegar.

VVaters of Capons.

VVaters composed for diuers disea∣ses, within y^e body chiefly, wherof some are made of medicins and iuyces, whiles they be yet newe, o∣ther are infused and put into the iuices of plāts or waters destilled, whay, or bloud.

An approued vvater for the sores of the raines and bladder, by the cardi∣nall of Tutellis.

A water composed, the fyrste amongste Aegidius waters.

A vvater agrinst the Pestilence, &c. of the bloud of a Wether or gelded Ram, out of a certain Duche writen booke.

Of pur ging medicines, composed destilled.

Gold Potable or that may be drōken.

Certain vvaters composed against the diseases of the eyes.

Certaine vvaters for the eyes out of Rogerius.

Of vvaters of svviet sauoure.

Rosevvater vvith muske, Saffron, Cloues, Caphura out of Bulcasis.

VVaters of svviet sauour of Andreas Furnerius, in his Frenche booke of the garnishyng of mans nature.

VVaters destilled called Cosme∣ticall, that is perteininge to garnishynge and deckinge.

Certain vvaters Destilled for the gar∣nishing of the face, out of Andreas Furnerius in his Frenche booke of the bewti∣fying man kynde.

Certain cosmeticall thinges, out of the Antidotorium of Gordonius.

VVaters for the dying of heares of the heed and other.

A vvaye to destill svviete vvaters, and effectuall, oute of Flowers and Hearbes by descencion or go∣inge downwarde.

Destillation in Asshes, or Sand or Dros of metall beeten. &c.

Of rosaries, that is to say instruments wherwith a destilled liquor maye be gotten oute of Roses and other medicines, fyre being put vn∣der (for the mooste parte wythoute anye meane betwixte) either of cooles, or of chippes.

Of oyles destilled, and first generally then particularly.

Hovv oile must be dravvn oute of spices, as Cloues, Nutmegs, Saffron, Mace, and other.

Hovve oile is dravvne out of vvodes and other like, as Cloues by destillacion oute of Cardan.

Of oils of flovvers.

Of oils of siedes and fruites,

Certain oyls of siedes vvhiche I founde in a booke of Waters of Raimund Lullius.

Of oyle of the beries of Iuniper, destilling first by ascencion, then by descencion as I learned of my frendes.

Of oyls of gums, teeres or liquors, thickened or congeled, and rosines.

Of oyle of Turpentine or larigna resina.

Oiles of barkes.

Of oils that are dravven out of Woodes.

Of trevve Balm, and antibalm, that is Oyls composed by arte, whiche are vsed in steed of the true Balm both within and without the body.

Of balmes made by Arte.

Of Balmes that be vsed vvith out the body.

Of oyles of the partes of beastes, or excrementes.

Of oyles of metals, tile stones, Gagate, Aumber.

Of Aqua fortis and such lyke.

Of the lyquors of precious stones.

Of cirtain massy thinges, as quicksil∣uer precipitated or killed, and the same and arsnck sublimated.

Of certaine other not Alchymi∣sticall or not destilled or sublimated me∣dicines, but cunninglye and wittilye prepared by other and diuers wayes.

Of diuers Oyles.

Of oyll of Tartarum, that is the dry Lies of wyne.

Of oyls of the yelkes of egges, wormes, and Scorpions.

Of fomentations and perfumes▪

Of certain iuices.

Again of the iuice of black Elleborus: and of the drawing out of the vertues out of purging medicines and certain other, as I learned of a certin friend.

Of the iuice of the Flour De∣luceand Rape. &c.

Of decocted thinges.

Of made vvyne, and mixt with medicines.

Of Aromaticall vvynes that is made of Spices.

Of svviet vvines spiced.

Three vvaies to make Nectar, wherof the first .ii. are called Gratia Dei, the thirde Manus Dei, oute of a writen boke.

Of spiced vvines vvith bur∣ning water.

Of certain other Aromatical vvynes, specially such as are made by hanging a litle bag in the vessell.

Of Artificiall vv•nes vvhiche resem▪ ble the tast of strange wynes, bycause of the spyoes hāged in a litle bag within the vessel.