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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
take a dram, you may keep the house; there 
can be no harm in that. 
Pilule de Aloe Lota. 
Or Pills of washed Aloes. 
College.] Take of Aloes washed with 
juice of red Roses, one ounce, Agarick three 
drams, Mastich two drams, Diamoscu 
Dulce half a dram, Syrup of Damask-roses, 
so much as is sufficient to make it into a 
mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It purges both brain, stom- 
ach, bowels, and eyes of putrified humours, 
and also strengthens them. Use these as the 
succeeding. 
Aloe Rosata. 
College.| Take of Aloes in powder four 
ounces, juice of Damask Roses clarified one 
pound, mix them and digest them in the 
sun, or in a bath, till the superfluous liquor 
be drawn off, digest it, and evaporate it 
four times over, and keep the mass. 
Culpeper.| It is a gallant gentle purger 
of choler, frees the stomach from superflu- 
ous humours, opens stoppings, and other in- 
firmities of the body proceeding from choler 
and flegm, as yellow jaundice, &c. and 
strengthens the body exceedingly. Take a 
scruple, or half a dram at night going to 
bed, you may walk abroad, for it will 
hardly work till next day in the afternoon. 
Pilule Auree 
College.|_ Take of Aloes, Diacrydium, 
_ of each five drams, red Roses, Smallage 
seeds, of each two drams and an half, the 
seeds of Annis and Fennel, of each one 
dram and an half, Mastich, Saffron, Troch, 
Alhandal, of each one dram, with a suffi- 
cient quantity of Honey Roses, make it into 
a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.| They are held to purge the 
head, to quicken the senses, especially the 
_ sight, and to expel wind from the bowels, 
_ but works something harshly. Half a dram 
_.is the utmost dose, keep the fire, take them 
in the morning, and sleep after them, they 
Pilule Cochie, the greater. 
College.] Take of Species, Hiera Picra, 
ten drams, Troch, Alhandal, three drams 
and an half, Diacrydium two drams and 
an half, Turbith, Steechas, of each five 
drams, with a sufficient quantity of Syrup 
of Stcechas, make it into a mass, according 
to art. 
Culpeper.| It is held to purge the head, 
but it is but a dogged purge at best, and 
must be given only to strong bodies, and 
but half a dram at a time, and yet with 
great care. 
Pilule Cochie, the less. 
College.] Take of Aloes, Scammony, 
Colocynthis, of each one ounce, with equal 
parts of Syrup of Wormwood, and of purg- 
ing thorn, make it into a mass according to 
art. 
Pilule de Cynoglosso. 
Or Pills of Hound’s-tongue. 
College.| Take of the Roots of Hound’s- 
tongue dried, white Henbane seed, Opium 
prepared, of each half an ounce, Myrrh 
six drams, Olibanum five drams, Saffron, 
Castoreum, Styrax, Calamitis, of each one 
dram and an half, with Syrup of Stoechas, 
make it into a mass. 
Culpeper.| It stays hot rheums that fall 
down upon the lungs, therefore is good in 
phthisics, also it mitigates pain, a scruple is 
enough to take at a time going to bed, and 
too much if your body be weak: have a 
care of opiates for fear they make you sleep 
your last. 
Pilule ex Duobus. 
Or Pills of two things. 
College.| Take of Colocynthis, and 
Scamony, of each one ounce, oil of Cloves 
as much as is sufficient to malax them well, 
then with a little Syrup of purging Thorn, 
make it into a mass. 
Pilule de Eupatorio. 
Or Pills of Eupatorium. 
College.] Take of the juice of Maudlin, 
_ | and Wormwood made thick, Citron, Myro- _ 
