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each four scruples, juice of Liquorice, white 
Starch, the seeds of white Poppies, Pur- 
slain, Lettuce, and Endive, of each three 
_ drams, the four greater cold seeds husked, 
of Quinces, Mallows, Cotton, Violets, Pine- 
nuts, fistic Nuts, sweet Almonds, pulp of 
Sebestens, of each two drams, Cloves, Spo- 
dium, Cinnamon, of each one dram, Saffron 
five grains, Penids half an ounce, being 
beaten, make them all into a soft electuary 
with three times their weight in Syrup of 
Violets. 
Culpeper.] It restores consumptions, and 
hectic fevers, lost strength, it nourishes 
much, and restores radical moisture, opens 
the pores, resists choler, takes away coughs, 
quenches thirst, and resists fevers. You 
may take an ounce in a day, by a dram at 
a time, if you please. 
Confectio Alkermes. 
College.| Take of the juice of Apples, 
Damask Rose-water, of each a pound and 
an half, in which infuse for twenty-four 
hours, raw Silk four ounces, strain it 
strongly, and add Syrup of the berries of 
Cherms brought over to us, two pounds, 
Sugar one pound, boil it to the thickness of 
Honey; then removing it from the fire 
whilst it is warm, add Ambergris cut small, 
half an ounce, which being well mingled, 
put in these things following in powder, 
Cinnamon, Wood of Aloes, of each six 
drams, Pearls prepared, two drams, Leaf- 
Gold a dram, Musk a scruple, make it. up 
according to art. 
Culpeper.| Questionless this is a great 
cordial, and a mighty strengthener of the 
heart, and vital spirits, a restorer of such as 
are in consumptions, a resister of pesti- 
lences and poison, a relief to languishing 
nature, it is given with good success in 
fevers, but give not too much of it at a 
time, lest it prove too hot for the body, 
and too heavy for the purse. You may mix 
_ ten grains of it with other convenient cor- 
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Electuarium e Sassaphras. 
College.| Take of Sassafras two ounces, 
common Water three pounds, boil it to the 
consumption of the third part, adding, to- 
wards the end, Cinnamon bruised half an 
ounce, strain it, and with two pounds of 
white sugar, boil it to the thickness of a 
Syrup, putting in, in powder, Cinnamon, a 
dram, Nutmegs, half a scruple, Musk three 
grains, Ambergris, two and thirty grains, 
ten leaves of Gold, Spirit of Vitriol four 
drops, and so make it into an electuary 
according to art. 
Culpeper.| It opens obstruction of the 
liver and spleen, helps cold rheums or de- 
fluxions from the head to the lungs, or teeth, 
or eyes, it is excellent in coughs, and other 
cold afflictions of the lungs and breast, it 
helps digestion, expels wind and the gravel 
of the kidneys, it provokes the menses, 
warms and dries up the moisture of the 
womb, which is many times the cause of 
barrenness, and is generally a helper of 
all diseases coming of cold, raw thin 
humours, you may take half a dram at a 
time in the morning. 
Electuarium de Baccis Lauri. 
Or Electuary of Bay-berries. 
College.| Take of the leaves of dried 
Rue ten drams,the seeds of Ammi, Cummin, 
Lovage, Origanum, Nigella, Caraway, Car- 
rots, Parsley, bitter Almonds, Pepper black 
and long, wild Mints, Calamus Aromaticus, 
Bay-berries, Castorium of each two drams, 
Sagapenum half an ounce, Opopanax three 
drams, clarified Honey a pound and an 
half, the things to be beaten, being beaten, 
and the Gums dissolved in Wine, make it — 
into an electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.| It is exceeding good eitherin _ 
the cholic; or Iliac passion, or any other 
disease of the bowels coming of cold or - 
wind, it generally eases pains in the bowels. 
You may give a dram in the morning fast- 
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