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consumptions, restores lost strength, staye \ oriential Bezoar, of each half an ounce, 

 fluxes, eases pains in the head, ears and powder of the black tops of Crab's claws' 

 eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and urining : the weight of them all, beat them into pow- 

 of blood ; it is a fine commodity for a man i der, which may be made into balls with 

 in a consumption to carry about with him, j jelly, and the skins which our vipers have 

 and eat now and then a bit. ; cast off, warily dried and kept for use. 



_____ Culpeper.] This is that powder they 



I ordinarily call Gascoigns powder, there are 



SPECIES, OR POWDERS. divers receipts of it, of which this is none 



\ of the worst, four, or five, or six grains is 



Aromaticiim Caryophyllatum. J excellently good i n a fever to be taken i n a n v 



College.'] Take of Cloves seven drams, \ cordial, for it cheers the heart and vital 

 Mace, Zedoary, Galanga the less, yellow j spirits exceedingly, and makes them 5m- 

 Sanders, Troches, Diarrhodon, Cinnamon, ! pregnable. 



wood of Aloes, Indian Spikenard, long j Species Cordiales Temperate. 



Pepper, Cardamoms the less, of each a dram, i College.] Take of wood of Aloes, Spodiurn 

 Red Roses four ounces, Gallia Moschata, j of each a dram, Cinnamon, Cloves, bone of 

 Liquorice, of each two drams, of Indian | a Stag's-heart, the roots of Angelica, Avens, 

 leaf, Cubebs of each two scruples, beat them j and Tormentil, of each a dram and an hall' 

 all diligently into powder. j Pearls prepared six drams, raw Silk toasterl, 



Culpeper.] This powder strengthens the } both sorts of Coral of each two drams, 



heart and stomach, helps digestion, expels 

 wind, stays vomiting, and cleanses the 



Jacinth, Emerald, Samphire, of each half a 

 dram, Saffron a scruple, the leaves of gold 



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stomach of putrified humors. :and silver, of each ten, make them into 



Aromaticiim Rosatum. powder according to art, 



College.] Take of Red Roses exungu- j Culpeper] It is a great cordial, a great 

 lated fifteen drams, Liquorice seven drams, | strengthener of the heart, and brain. 

 Wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, of each ; Diacalaminthe Simple. 



three drams, Cinnamon five drams, Cloves,? College.'] Take of Mountain Calaminth, 

 Mace, of each two drams and an half, Gum j Pennyroyal, Origanum, the seeds of Mace- 

 Arabic and Tragacanlh, of each eight | donian Parsley, common Parsley, and 

 scruples, Nutmegs, Cardamoms the less, i Hartwort, of each two drams, the seeds of 

 Galanga of each one dram, Indian Spike- \ Smallage, the tops of Thyme of each half 

 nard two scruples, make it into a powder to i an ounce, the seeds of Lovage, black 

 be kept in a glass for use. ; Pepper, of each an ounce, make them into 



Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain, powder according to art. 

 heart and stomach, and all such internal : Culpeper.] It heats and comforts cold 

 members as help towards decoction, it helps j bodies, cuts thick and gross flegm, provokes 

 digestion, consumes the watery excrements \ urine and the menses. I confess this differs 

 of the bowels, strengthens such as are pined j something from Galen, but is better for oui 

 away by reason of the violence of a disease, j bodies in my opinion than his. It expels 

 and restores such as are in consumption. \ wind exceedingly, you may take half a 

 Pulvus ex chelus Cancrontm compositus. ! dram of the powder at a time. There is 



Or Powder of Crab's claws compound, j nothing surer than that all their powders 



College.] Take of Pearls prepared, Crab's will keep better in Electuaries than they 

 eyes, red Coral, white Amber, Hart's-horn, * will in powders, and into such a body, you 



