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Cassia extracta cum solits Sene. 
Or Cassia extracted with the leaves of Sena. 
College.] Take of the former receipt two 
pounds, Sena in powder two ounces, mix 
them according to art. 
- Culpeper.] This is also a fine cool gentle 
purge, cleansing the bowels of choler and 
melancholy without any griping, very fit 
for feverish bodies, and yet the former is 
gentler than this. They both cleanse and 
cool the reins; a reasonable body may take 
an ounce and an half of the former, and an 
ounce of the latter in white Wine, if they 
keep the house, or their bodies be oppressed 
with melancholy, let them take half the 
quantity in four ounces of decoction of 
Epithi : 
yampages Diacarthamum. 
College.| Take of Diatragacanthum 
frigidum, half an ounce, pulp of preserved 
Quinces an ounce, the inside of the seeds of 
Bastard Saffron half an ounce, Ginger two 
drams, Diacrydium beaten by itself three 
drams, Turbith six drams, Manna two 
ounces, Honey of Roses solutive, Sugar 
Candy, of each an ounce, Hermodactils half 
an ounce, Sugar ten ounces and an half, 
make of them a liquid electuary according 
to art. 
Diaphenicon. 
College.| Take of the pulp of Dates 
boiled in Hydromel, Penids, of each half 
a pound, sweet Almonds blanched, three 
. Ounces and an half, to all of them being 
bruised and mixed, add clarified Honey 
two pounds, boil them a little, and then 
strew in Ginger, long Pepper, Mace, Cin- 
namon, Rue leaves, the seeds of Fennel and 
Carrots, of each two drams, Turbith four 
Ounces, Diacridium an ounce and an half, 
make of them an electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.] I cannot believe this is so 
Profitable in fevers taken downwards as 
authors say, for it is a very violent purge. 
Diaprunum Lenitive. 
College.| Take one hundred Damask 
Prunes, boil them in water till they be soft, 
then pulp them, and in the liquor they were 
boiled in, boil gently one of Violet flowers, 
strain it, and with two pounds of sugar boil 
it to a Syrup, then add half a pound of the 
aforesaid pulp, the pulp of Cassia, and 
Tamarinds, of each one ounce, then mix 
with it these powders following: Sanders 
white and red, Spodium, Rhubarb, of each 
three drams, red Roses, Violets, the seeds 
of Purslain, Succory, Barberries, Gum 
Tragacanth, Liquorice, Cinnamon, of each 
two drams, the four greater cold seeds, of 
each one dram, make it into an electuary 
according to art. 
Culpeper.| It may safely, and is with 
good success, given in acute, burning, and 
| all other fevers, for it cools much, and 
loosens the body gently: it is good in agues, 
hectic fevers, and Mirasmos. You may take 
an ounce of it at a time, at night when 
you go to bed, three hours after a light 
supper, neither need you keep your cham- 
ber next day, unless the weather be very 
cold, or your body very tender. 
Diaprunum solutive. 
College.] Take of Diaprunum Lenitive 
whilst it is warm, four pounds, Scammony 
prepared two ounce and five drams, mix 
them into an electuary according to art. 
Seeing the dose of Scammony is increased 
according to the author in this medicine, 
you may use a less weight of Scammony if 
you please. 
Catholicon. : 
College.| Take of the pulp of Cassia 
and Tamarinds, the leaves of Sena, of each 
two ounces, Polypodium, Violets, Rhubarb, 
of each one ounce, Annis seeds, Penids, 
Sugar Candy, Liquorice, the seeds of 
Gourds, Citruls, Cucumbers, Melons, of 
each two drams, the things to be bruised — 
being bruised, take of fresh Polypodium — 
three ounces, sweet Fennel seeds six drams, — 
boil them in four pounds of water till the — 
third part be consumed, strain it, and with 
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