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pains in the joints, comforts and strength- 
ens both brain and stomach, and consumes 
diseases whose original comes of flegm. 
Pilule Cochie with Helebore. 
College.| Take of the powder of the 
Pills before prescribed, the powder of the 
bark of the roots of black Hellebore, one 
ounce: make it into a mass with Syrup of 
Steechas according to art. 
Pills of Fumitory. Avicenna. 
College.| Take of Myrobalans, Citrons, 
Chebs, and Indian Diagrydium, of each 
five drams, Aloes seven drams; let all of 
them being bruised, be thrice moistened 
with juice of Fumitory, and thrice suffered 
to dry, then brought into a mass with Syrup 
of Fumitory. : 
Culpeper.] It purges melancholy. Be 
not too busy with it I beseech you. 
Pilule Inde. Mesue out of Haly. 
College.| Take of Indian Myrobalans, 
black Hellebore, Polypodium of the Oak, 
of each five drams, Epithymum, Stechas, 
_ of each six drams, Agarick, Lapis Lazuli 
_ often washed troches Alhandal, Sal Indi, of 
| each half an ounce, juice of Maudlin made 
| thick, Indian Spikenard, of each two drams, 
_ Cloves one dram, Species Hiera Picra sim- 
plex Galeni, twelve drams, with juice of 
Smallage, make it into a mass according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It wonderfully prevails 
against afflictions coming of melancholy, 
cancers which are not ulcerated, leprosy, 
evils of the mind coming of melancholy, as 
sadness, fear, &c. quartan agues, jaundice, 
Pains and infirmities of the spleen. 
Pilule Lucis Majores. Mesue. 
College.] Take of Roses, Violets, Worm- 
wood, Colocynthis, Turbith, Cubebs, Cala- 
mus Aromaticus, Nutmegs, Indian Spike- 
hard, Epithimum, Carpobalsamum, or in- 
Stead thereof, Cardamoms, Xylabalsamum, 
_ &% Wood of Aloes, the seeds of Seseli or 
Hartwort, Rue, Annis, Fennel and Small- 
age, Schenanthus, Mastich, Asarabacca 
roots, Cloves, Cinnamom, Cassia Lignea, 
Saffron, Mace, of each two drams, Myro- 
balans, Citrons, Chebuls, Indian Bellerick, 
and Emblick, Rhubarb, of each half an 
ounce, Agarick, Sena, of each five drams, 
Aloes Succotrina, the weight of them all: 
with Syrup of the juice of Fennel make 
it into a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.| It purges mixt humours from 
the head, and elears it of such excrements 
as hinder the sight. 
Pills of Spurge. Fernelius. 
College.| Take of the bark of the roots 
of Spurge the less, steeped twenty-four 
hours in Vinegar and juice of Purslain, two 
drams, grains of Palma Christi torrified, 
by number, forty, Citron Myrobalans one 
dram and an half, Germander, Chamepitys, 
Spikenard, Cinnamon, of each two scruples, 
being beaten into fine powder with an ounce 
of Gum Tragacanth dissolved in Rose 
Water, and Syrup of Roses so much as is 
sufficient, let it be made into a mass. 
Pills of Euphorbium. Mesue. 
College.] Take of Euphorbium, Colo- 
cynthis, Agarick, Bdellium, Sagapenum, 
of each two drams, Aloes five drams, with 
Syrup made of the juice of Leeks, make it 
into a mass. 
Culpeper.| The Pills are exceeding good 
for dropsies, pains in the loins, and gouts 
coming of a moist cause. Take not above 
half a dram at a time and keep the house 
Pilule Scribonii. 
College.| Take of Sagapen, and Myrrh, 
of each two drams, Opium, Cardamoms, 
Castorium, of each one dram, white Pep- 
per half a dram, Sapa so much as is sufi- 
cient to make it into a mass according to art. 
Culpeper.] It is appropriated to such as 
have phthisicks, and such as spit blood, but 
ought to be newly made, a see} is J 
ficient taken going to bende | 
