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the morning fasting, for most of these pow- 
ders will keep better by half in electuaries. 
Pulvis Haly. 
College.| Take of white Poppy seeds 
ten drams, white Starch, Gum Arabic and 
Tragacanth, of each three drams, the seeds 
of Purslain, Marsh-mallows, Mallows, of 
each five drams, Cucumbers, Melons, 
Gourds, Citruls, Quinces, of each seven 
drams, Ivory, Liquorice, of each three 
drams, Penids the weight of them all, make 
them into powder according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is a gallant cool powder, 
fit for all hot imperfections of the breast 
and lungs, as consumptions, pleurises, &c. 
Your best way is to make it into a soft 
electuary with Syrups of Violets, and take 
it as Diatragacanthum frigidum. 
Letificans. 
College.| Take the flowers of Clove-bazil, 
or the seeds thereof, Saffron, Zedoary, 
Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Citron pills, Ga- 
langa, Mace, Nutmegs, Styrax Calamitis, of 
each two drams and an half, Ivory, Annis 
seeds, Thyme, Epithimum, of each one 
dram, bone of a Stag’s heart, Pearls, Cam- 
phire, of each half a dram, leaves of Gold 
and Silver, of each half a scruple, make it 
into powder according to art. 
Culpeper.] It causes a merry heart, a 
good colour, helps digestion, and keeps 
back old age. You may mix half a dram of 
it to take at one time, or less if you please, 
in any cordial Syrup, or cordial electuary 
appropriated to the same uses. 
Pulvis Sazonicus. 
College.] Take of the roots of both sorts 
of Angelica, Swallow-wort, garden Valer- 
ian, Polipodium of the Oak, Marsh- 
mallows, Nettles, of each half an ounce, the 
bark of German Mezereon, two drams, 
= twenty grains of herb Truclove, the leaves | mug 
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roots being steeped in vinegar and dried, 
beat it all into powder. 
Culpeper.| It seems to be as great an 
expeller of poison, and as great a preserva- 
tive against it, and the pestilence, as one 
shall usually read of. 
Rosate Novelle. 
College.| Take of red Roses, Liquorice, 
of each one ounce, one dram, two scruples, 
and an half, Cinnamon two drams, two 
scruples, and two grains, Cloves, Indian 
Spikenard, Ginger, Galanga, Nutmegs, 
Zedoary, Styrax, Calamitis, Cardamoms, 
Parsley seeds, of each one scruple eight 
grains, beat them into powder. 
Culpeper.| It quenches thirst, and stays 
vomiting, and the author saith it helps hot 
and dry stomachs, as also heat and dryness 
of the heart, liver, and lungs, (yet is the 
powder itself hot,) it strengthens the vital 
spirits, takes away heart-qualms, it pro- — 
vokes sweat, and strengthens such as have 
laboured under long chronical diseases. 
You may take a dram of the electuary 
every morning, if with clarified Honey you 
please to make it into such a body. 
Pulcous Thuraloes. 
College.] Take of Frankincense one 
dram, Aloes half a dram, beat them into 
powder. 
Culpeper.| And when you have occa- . 
sion to use it, mix so much of it with the 
white of an egg, (beat the white of the egg 
well first) as will make it of the thickness 
of Honey, then dip the wool of a Hare in it, 
and apply it to the sore or part that bleeds, — 
binding it on. a 
Pulvis Hermidactylorum compositus. 
Or Powder of Hermodactils compound. 
Che) Take of men’s bones burnt, burnt, 
