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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
the thickness of a Syrup; then with the 
pulps and powder make it into an elec- 
tuary according to art. 
Culpeper.| It is a fine cooling purge for 
any part of the body, and very gentle, it 
may be given (an ounce, or half an ounce 
at a time, according to the strength of the 
patient) in acute, or peracute diseases, for it 
gently loosens the belly, and adds strength, 
it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen, 
gouts of all sorts, quotidian, tertian, and 
quartan agues, as also head-aches. It is 
usually given in clysters. If you like to 
take it inwardly, you may take an ounce at 
night going to bed; in the morning drink 
a draught of hot posset drink and go about 
your business. 
Electuarium de Citro Solutivoum. 
Or Electuary of Citrons, solutive. 
College.| Take of Citron pills preserved, 
conserves of the flowers of Violets and 
Bugloss, Diatragacanthum frigidum, Dia- 
crydium, of each half an ounce, Turbith 
five drams, Ginger half a dram, Sena six 
- drams, sweet Fennel seeds one dram, white 
sugar dissolved in Rose-water, and boiled 
according to art, ten ounces, make a solid 
electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.| Here are some things very 
cordial, others purge violently, both put 
together, make a composition no way pleas- 
ing to me; therefore I account it a pretty 
receipt, good for nothing. 
Electuarium Elescoph. 
College.| Take of Diacrydium, Turbith, 
of each six drams, Cloves, Cinnamon, Gin- 
ger, Myrobalans, Emblicks, Nutmegs, Poly- 
_ podium, of each two drams and an half, 
Sugar six ounces, clarified Honey ten 
ounces, make it into an electuary according 
to art. 
_ Culpeper.| It purges choler and flegm, 
and wind from all parts of the body, helps 
pains of the joints and sides, the cholic, it 
eanses the reins and bladder, yet I advise 
to take eee et ae aah 
it works pretty violently, let half an ounce 
be the most, for such whose bodies are 
strong, always remembering that you had 
better ten times take too little, than once 
too much; you may take it in white wine, 
and keep yourself warm. If you would 
have my opinion of it, I do not like it. 
Confectio Hamech. 
College.| Take of the bark of Citron, 
Myrobalans two ounces, Myrobalans, Chebs 
and blacks, Violets, Colocynthis, Polypo- 
dium of the Oak, of each one ounce and an 
half, Wormwood, Thyme, of each half an 
ounce, the seeds of Annis, and Fennel, the 
flowers of red Roses of each three drams, 
let all of them being bruised, be infused 
one day in six pounds of Whey, then boiled 
till half be consumed, rubbed with your 
hands and pressed out: to the decoction 
add juice of Fumitory, pulp of Prunes, and 
Raisins of the Sun, of each half a pound, 
white Sugar, clarified Honey, of each one 
pound, boil it to the thickness of Honey, 
strewing in towards the end. Agarick tro- 
chiscated, Sena of each two ounces, Rhu- 
barb one ounce and an half, Epithimum one 
ounce, Diacrydium six drams, Cinnamon 
half an ounce, Ginger two drams, the seeds 
of Fumitory and Annis, Spikenard, of each 
one dram, make it into an electuary accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper.| The receipt is chiefly appro- 
priated as a purge for melancholy and salt 
flegm, and diseases thence arising, as scabs, 
itch, leprosies, cancers, infirmities of the 
skin, it purges adust humours, and is good 
against madness, melancholy, forgetfulness, 
vertigo. It purges very violently, and is 
not safe given alone. I would advise the 
unskilful not to meddle with it inwardly: 
You may give half an ounce of it in clys- 
ters, in melancholy diseases, which com- 
monly have astringency a constant com- 
panion with them. 
| Electuarium Leaitthiens 
| Or Lenitive Electuary. | res 
