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Pulvis Haly. \ tive against it, and the pestilence, as one 



College.'] Take of white Poppy seeds ! sha11 usually read of. 

 len drams, white Starch, Gum Arabic and j Rosate Novelle. 



Tragacanth, of each three drams, the seeds j College.] Take of red Roses, Liquorice, 

 of Purslain, Marsh-mallows, Mallows, of^of each one ounce, one dram, two scruples 

 each five drams, Cucumbers, Melons, i and an half, Cinnamon two drams, two 

 Gourds, Citruls, Quinces of each seven j scruples, and two grains, Cloves, Indian 

 drams, Ivory, Liquorice, of each three j Spikenard, Ginger, Galanga, Nutmegs, 

 drams, Penids the weight of them all, make j Zedoary, Styrax, Calamitis, Cardamoms, 

 them into powder according to art. ; Parsley seeds, of each one scruple eight 



Culpeper.~] It is a gallant cool powder, j grains, beat them into powder, 

 fit for all hot imperfections of the breast; Culpeper] It quenches thirst, and stays 

 and lungs, as consumptions, pleurisies, &c. I vomiting, and the author saith it helps hot 

 Your best way is to make it into a soft; and dry stomachs, as also heat and dryness 

 electuary with Syrups of Violets, and take; of the heart, liver, and lungs, (yet is the 

 it as Diatragacanthum frigidum. j powder itself hot,) it strengthens the vital 



Latificans. J spirits, takes away heart-qualms, it pro- 



College.] Take the flowers of Clove-bazil, j vokes sweat > and strengthens such as have 

 or the' seeds thereof, Saffron, Zedoary, (laboured under long chronical diseases. 

 Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Citron pills, Galanga, J * ou mav take a dram of the electuary 

 Mace, Nutmegs, Styrax Calamitis, of each! eve) T morning, if with clarified Honey you 

 two drams and an half, Ivory, Annis seeds, j P lease to niake ]t lnto such a bod J- 

 Thyme, Epithimum, of each one dram, \ Pulvus Thuraloes 



bone of a Stag's heart, Pearls, Camphire, j College.] Take of Frankincense one 

 of each half a dram, leaves of Gold and j dram, Aloes half a dram, beat them into 

 Silver, of each half a scruple, make it into j powder, 

 powder according to art. j Culpeper.] And when you have occa- 



Culpeper] It causes a merry heart, ajsion to use it, mix so much of it with the 

 good colour, helps digestion, and keeps } w >te of an egg, (beat the white of the egg 

 back old age. You may mix half a dram well first) as will make it of the thickness 01 



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of it to take at one time, or less if you 

 please, in any cordial Syrup, or cordial 

 electuary appropriated to the same uses. 

 Pulvis Saxonicus. 



Honey, then dip the wool of a Hare in it, 

 and apply it to the sore or part that bleeds, 

 binding it on. 



Pulvis Hermidactylorum composttus. 



Collese.} Take of the roots of both sorts j Or Powder of Hermodactils compound, 

 of Angelica,Swallow-wort, garden Valerian, I College] Take of men's bones burnt, 

 Polipodium of the Oak, Marsh-mallows, | Scammony, Hermodactils, Turbith, Sena, 

 Nettles, of each half an ounce, the bark of -Sugar, of each equal parts, beat them into 

 German Mezereon, two drams, twenty grains ! powder. 



of herb True-love, the leaves of the same, ; Pulvis Sence compositus major. 



roots and all, thirty six, the roots being! Or Powder of Sena the greater composition, 

 steeped in vinegar and dried, beat it all j College.] Take of the seeds of Annis, 

 into powder. j Carraway, Fennel, Cummin, Spikenard, 



Culpeper] It seems to be as great an \ Cinnamon, Galanga, of each half an ounce, 

 expeller of poison, and as great a preserva-j Liquorice, Cromwell, of each an ounce, 



