320 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



electuary, you may take a dram of it upon i Cucumbers and Gourds, of each two drams, 

 a knife's point at any time when the cough | Penids three ounces, Camphire half a 

 comes. | scruple, make of them a powder according 



Diarrhodon Abbalis j to art. Also you .may make an electuary 



CoUtfff^ Take of Sanders white and | of them with a sufficient quantity of Syrup 

 red, of each two drams and an half, Gum j of Violets, but have a care of what was told 

 Tragacanlh, Anibic, Ivory of each two you before of the seeds, 

 scruples. Asarabacca roots, Mastich, Indian | CidpeperJ] Make up into an electuary. 

 Spikenard, Cardamoms, Liquorice, Saffron, \ It helps the faults of the breast and lungs 

 Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Gallia Moschala, \ coming of heat and dryness, it helps con- 

 Annis and sweet Fennel seeds, Cinnamon, ; sumptions, leanness, inflammations of the 

 Rhubarb, Bazil seeds, Barberry seeds, the \ sides, pleurises, &c. hot and dry coughs, 

 seeds of Succory, Purslain, the four greater j roughness of the tongue and jaws 

 cold seeds cleansed, white Poppy seeds, of j Diatnon Pipenon. 



eacn a scruple, Pearls, bone of a Stags-heart i n -i , v , r ., e 



c i i i/> i IT, Lollege.\ Jake of the three sorts of 



or each hair a scruple, red Roses exun- * ^ J ,. i , l . 



, . ' , ., ^ : Peppers, of each six drams and fifteen 



gulated, one ounce and three drains, Cam- J , , r P1 <-,- c 



, , I <>;rams, Anms seeds, ihyme, Ginger, or each 



phire seven grains, make them into powder? i ,1 , i 



I one dram, beat them into gross powder. 



according to art. ^ . -, T . , , , 



r, , -i -,. , ., , , c \ Lulpcver.l It ncats the stomach and 

 Culpepe)\\ It cools the violent heat iifj i LJ ir i 



, , l J , , ,. tl ,. \ expels wind. Half n dram in powder, or 



the heart and stomach, as also or the liver, \ . IC l ^ , ' , 



, u J two drams in electuary (for so Galen who 



In n ffc n ii t\ ci-\l^rn noc/-m r\oi nc i r rho Kr^H \r J \ 



was author of it, appoints it to be mach 

 with clarified honey, a sufficient quantity) 

 if age and strength permit, if notj half so 

 much, is a sufficient dose, to be taken be- 

 fore meat, if to heat the stomach and help 

 digestion ; after meat, if to expel wind. 



Diatnon Santalon. 



lungs, and spleen, eases pains in the body, 

 and most infirmities coming to the body by 

 reason of heat. The dose of the powder is 

 half a dram, and two ounces of the elec- 

 tuary, into which with sugar dissolved in 

 Rose-water you may make it. 

 Diospoliticum. 



College^] Take of Cummin seeds steeped 

 in vinegar and dried, long Pepper, Rue) College.^ Take of all the sorts of Sanders, 

 leaves, of each an ounce, Nitre half an j red Roses, of each three drams, Rhubarb, 

 ounce, make them into powder. | Ivory, Juice of Liquorice, Purslain seeds, 



Culpeptr.~] It is an admirable remedy j of each two drams and fifteen grains, white 

 for such whose meat is putrified in their | Starch, Gum Arabic, Tragacanth, the seeds 

 stomachs, it helps cold stomachs, cold | of Melons, Cucumbers, Citmls, Gourds, 

 belchings and windy. You may take half I Endive, of each a dram and an half, Cam- 

 a dram after meat, either in a spoonful of 5 phire a scruple, make them into powder 

 Muskadel, or in a Syrup of Mir ties or { according to art. 



Quinces, or any Cordial Water whose effects j Culpeper.~\ It is very profitable against 



is the same. i the heat of the stomach and liver, besides, 



Species Diatrugacanthi frigidi. \ it wonderfully helps such as have the yellow 



College.'] Take of Gum Tragacanth two | jaundice, and consumptions of the lungs, 

 ounces, Gum Arabic an ounce and two j You may safely take a dram of the powder, 

 drains, whiteStarch half an ounce, Liquorice, t or two drams of the electuary in themornin 

 Hie seeds of Melons and white Poppies, of fasting, for most of these powder will kee 

 each three drams, the seeds of Citruls, * better by half in electuaries. 



