288 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



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cordial to strengthen the heart, to j pounds, digest them two days, either in 

 relieve languishing nature. It is exceed- j Horse-dung, or in a bath, the vessel being 

 ing dear. I forbear the dose, they that { close shut, then distil them in sand ; in the 

 have money enough to make it themselves, j distillation you may make a Theriacal ex- 

 cannot want time to study both the virtues j traction. 



and dose: I would have gentlemen to bej Culpeper.'] This water is exceeding good 



studious. un all fevers, especially pestilential; it 



Aqua cordialis frigida Saxenice j expels venomous humours by sweat ; it 



College.'] Take of the juice of Borrage, 'strengthens the heart and vitals; it is' an 

 Bugloss, Bawm, Bistort, Tormentil, Scor- j admirable counter-poison, special good for 

 dium, Vervain, sharp-pointed Dock, Sorrel, j such as have the plague, or are poisoned, or 

 Goat's Rue, Mirrhis, Blue Bottle great and j bitten by venomous beasts, and expels 

 small, Roses, Marigolds, Lemon, Citrons, ? virulent humours from such as have the 

 of each three ounces, Avhite Wine Vinegar j venereal disease. If you desire to know 

 one pound, Purslain seeds two ounces, \ more virtues of it, see the virtues of Venice 

 Citron and Carduus seeds, of each half an | Treacle. The dose is from a spoonful to 

 ounce, Water Lily flowers two ounces, j an ounce. 



the flowers of Borrage, Bugloss, Violets, { Aqua Brionite composite. 



Clpve-gilliflowers, of each one ounce, $ Or Briony Water compound. 



Diatrion Sentalon six drams : let all off College.] Take of the juice of Briony 

 them, being rightly prepared, be infused j roots, four pounds, the leaves of Rue and 

 three days, then distilled in a glass still : j Mugwort, of each two pounds, dryed Savm 

 to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos, Uhree handfuls, Featherfew, Nep, Penny- 

 Siletia, and Samos, of each one ounce and j royal, of each two handfuls, Bazil, Dittany, 

 an half, Pearls prepared with the juice of! of Crete, of each one handful and a half, 

 Citrons, three drams, mix them, and keep! Orange pills four ounces, Myrrh two 

 them together. | ounces, Castoreum one ounce, Canary Wine 



Culpeper.'] It mightily cools the blood, j twelve pounds, digest them four days in a 



and therefore profitable in fevers, and all \ convenient vessel, then still them in Ealnto 



diseases proceeding of heat of blood : it | Mariee : About the middle of the distilla- 



provokes sleep. You may take half an } tion strain it out, and make an Hysterical 



ounce at a time, or two drams if the party j extraction of the residue. 



be weak. $ Culpeper^] A spoonful of ii taken, 



Aqua Theriacalis. j eases the fits of the mother in women that 



Or Treacle Water. | have them ; it potently expels the after- 



College.'] Take of the juice of green | birth, and clears the body of what a mid- 

 Walnuts, four pounds, the juice of Ruenvife by heedlessness or accident hath left 

 three pounds, juice of Carduus, Marigolds, 1 behind ; it cleanses the womb exceedingly, 

 and Bawm, of each two pounds, green 5 and for that I fancy it much, take not above 

 Petasitis roots one pound and a half, the | a tasterful at a time, and then in the mor- 

 roots of Burs one pound, Angelica and j ning fasting, for it is of a purging quality, 

 Master-wort, of each half a pound, the \ and let pregnant women forbear it. 



