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consumptions, restores lost strength, stays 
fluxes, eases pains in the head, ears and 
eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and urining 
of blood; it is a fine commodity for a man 
in a consumption to carry about with him, 
and eat now and then a bit. 
SPECIES, OR POWDERS. 
Aromaticum Caryophyllatum. 
College.] Take of Cloves seven drams, 
Mace, Zedoary, Galanga the less, yellow 
Sanders, Troches, Diarrhodon, Cinnamon, 
wood of Aloes, Indian Spikenard, long 
Pepper, Cardamoms the less, of each a 
dram, Red Roses four ounces, Gallia Mos- 
chata, Liquorice, of each two drams, of 
Indian leaf, Cubebs of each two scruples, 
beat them all diligently into powder. 
Culpeper.] This powder strengthens the 
heart and stomach, helps digestion, expels 
wind, stays vomiting, and cleanses the 
stomach of putrified humors. 
Aromaticum Rosatum. 
College.] Take of Red Roses exungu- 
lated fifteen drams, Liquorice seven drams, 
Wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, of each 
three drams, Cinnamon five drams, Cloves, 
Mace, of each two drams and an half, Gum 
Arabic and Tragacanth, of each eight 
Scruples, Nutmegs, Cardamoms the less, 
Galanga of each one dram, Indian Spike- 
nard two scruples, make it into a powder to 
kept in a glass for use. 
Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain, 
heart and stomach, and all such internal 
members as help towards decoction, it helps 
digestion, consumes the watery excrements 
of the bowels, strengthens such as are pined 
away by reason of the violence of a disease, 
and restores such as are in consumption. 
Pulous ex chelus Cancrorum compositus. 
Or Powder of Crab’s claws compound. 
College.] Take of Pearls prepared, 
Crab’s eyes, red Coral, white Amber, 
a 
Hart’s-horn, oriential Bezoar, of each half 
an ounce, powder of the black tops of Crab’s 
claws, the weight of them all, beat them into 
powder, which may be made into balls with 
jelly, and the skins which our vipers have 
cast off, warily dried and kept for use. 
Culpeper.] This is that powder they 
ordinarily call Gascoigns powder, there are 
divers receipts of it, of which this is none 
of the worst, four, or five, or six grains is 
excellently good in a fever to be taken in 
any cordial, for it cheers the heart and vilai 
spirits exceedingly, and makes them im- 
pregnable. 
Species Cordiales Temperate. 
College.| Take of wood of Aloes, Spo- 
dium of each a dram, Cinnamon, Cloves, 
bone of a Stag’s-heart, the roots of Angel- 
ica, Avens and Tormentil, of each a dram 
and an half, Pearls prepared six drams, raw 
Silk toasted, both sorts of Coral of each two 
drams, Jacinth, Emerald, Samphire, of 
each half a dram, Saffron a scruple, the 
leaves of gold and silver, of each ten, make 
them into powder according to art. 
Culpeper.| It is a great cordial, a great 
strengthener of the heart, and brain. 
Diacalaminthe Simple. 
College.] Take of Mountain Calaminth, 
Pennyroyal, Origanum, the seeds of Mace- 
donian Parsley, common Parsley, and 
Hartwort, of each two drams, the seeds of 
Smallage, the tops of Thyme of each half 
an ounce, the seeds of Lovage, black 
Pepper, of each an ounce, make them into 
powder according to art. 
Culpeper.| It heats and comforts cold 
bodies, cuts thick and gross flegm, provokes 
urine and the menses. I confess this differs 
something from Galen, but is better for our 
bodies in my opinion than his. It expels _ 
wind exceedingly, you may take half a ~ 
dram of the powder at a time. There is _ 
will keep better in Electuaries than they 
