MEDICAL REMAINS. 427 



A CATALOGUE OF ASTRINGENTS, OPENERS, AND CORD- 

 IALS, INSTRUMENTAL TO HEALTH. 



Collected by Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam. 1 



ASTRINGENTS. 



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

 pomegranate, mint, aloes well washed, myrobalanes, 

 sloes, agresta, fraga, mastich, myrrh, saffron, leaves of 

 rosemary? rhubarb received by infusion, cloves, service- 

 berries, corna, wormwood, bole armeniac, sealed earth, 

 cinquefoil, tincture of steel, sanguis draconis, coral, am- 

 ber, quinces, spikenard, galls, alum, blood-stone, mum- 

 my, amomum, galangal, cypress, ivy, psyllum, house- 

 leek, sallow, mullein, vine, oak-leaves, lign-aloes, red 

 sanders, mulberry, medlars, flowers of peach-trees, 

 pomegranates, pears, palmule, pith of kernels, purslain, 

 acacia, laudanum, tragacanth, thus olibani, comfrey, 

 shepherds-purse, polygonium. 



Astringents (both hot and cold) which corroborate the 

 parts, and which confirm and refresh such of them as 

 are loose or languishing. 



Rosemary, mint, especially with vinegar, cloves, cin- 

 namon, cardamom, lign-aloes, rose, myrtle, red sanders, 

 cotonea, red wine, chalybeat-wine, five-finger grass, 

 plantane, apples of cypress, berberries, fraga, service- 

 berries, cornels, ribes, sour pears, rambesia. 



Astringents styptic, which by their styptic virtue may 

 stay fluxes. 



Sloes, acacia, rind of pomegranates infused, at least 



l Baconiana, p. 161. 



