230 MEDICAL REMAINS. 



and dry the powder against the sun without fire. 

 Add to it of nitre one dram, of ambergrease one 

 scruple and a half; and so keep this powder for use 

 in a clean glass. Then take a pottle of milk, and 

 slice in it of fresh cucumbers, the inner pith only, 

 the rind being pared off, four ounces, and draw forth 

 a water by distillation. Take of claret wine a pint, 

 and quench gold in it four times. 



Of the wine, and of the water of milk, take of 

 each three ounces, of the powder one scruple, and 

 drink it in the morning ; stir up the powder when 

 you drink, and walk upon it. 



A catalogue of astringents, openers, and cordials, instru 

 mental to health. 



ASTRINGENTS. 



RED rose, black-berry, myrtle, plantane, flower 

 of pomegranate, mint, aloes well washed, myro- 

 balanes, sloes, agrestia fraga, mastich, myrrh, saffron, 

 leaves of rosemary, rhubarb received by infusion, 

 cloves, service-berries, coma, wormwood, bole ar- 

 meniac, sealed earth, cinquefoil, tincture of steel, 

 sanguis draconis, coral, amber, quinces, spikenard, 

 galls, alum, blood-stone, mummy, amomum, galan- 

 gal, cypress, ivy, psyllum, housleek, sallow, mullein, 

 vine, oak-leaves, lignum aloes, red sanders, mulberry, 

 medlars, flowers of peach-trees, pomegranates, pears, 

 palmule, pith ot kernels, purslain, acacia, laudanum, 

 tragacanth, thus olibani, comfrey, shepherd s purse, 

 polygonium. 



